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Mental break

2026-05-15T05:14:35Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Stub|reason=1) What are the actual MTBs for breaks? how is frequency calculated? 2) Which breaks are "aggressive" or "violent" and thus affected by [[Dead calm]]/[[Hyper-aggressive]]/[[Aggressive]] - information should be linked to or replicated on [[Genes]] 3) Needs information on non-mood based breaks - e.g. drugs, psychic breakdown, ailments etc. In game times - Days easier to parse than 10000s of ticks. Also needs Biotech mental breaks e.g. Fleeing fire.}}{{About|the mental conditions experienced by unhappy pawn|breaking objects|Max Hit Points}}
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A '''mental break''' is a pawn event that may occur when a pawns's '''mood''' drops below the '''mental break threshold'''. Majority types of mental break cause a '''mental state''', during which the pawn will become uncontrollable and shirk work tasks for a short while, or even worse, they will attempt to sabotage the colony. A breaking colonist may be interrupted by arresting or downing them.

A few types of mental break, like catatonic breakdown, run wild, and crisis of belief,{{IdeologyIcon}} do not cause mental state. Some mental states may occur without a mental break, notable examples of sources are [[psychic insanity lance]], [[pyromaniac]] trait, [[gourmand]] trait, [[Alzheimer's]], [[dementia]], [[luciferium]] withdrawal, and various [[psycast]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}}, some of which enabling the player to induce mental states to enemies in battle.

There are three levels of severity for mental break events: '''minor, major,''' and '''extreme'''. Each severity level has a different pool of possible events that may occur at different frequencies. Minor events include hiding in the pawn's room for a day, extreme events include murder.

Colonists, visitors, enemies, tamed, and wild animals all have types of mental breaks.

== Mechanics ==
=== Mood ===
[[Mood]] is a visual indicator of how likely your pawn is to have a mental break. It is lowered by negative [[thoughts]] about the pawn's environment and raised by positive thoughts. Mood is found in the [[Needs]] tab of the pawn Inspect pane.

The three mental break severity levels directly correspond to the low mood levels '''Stressed, On edge,''' and '''About to break,''' respectively. Mental break events and frequencies are different for each mood level.

Pawn mood is related to the sum of all the thoughts a pawn has, so minor penalties can quickly add up to large effects on a pawn's stability. Some mental breaks are unavoidable in even the finest, happiest colonies, such as '''Fire Starting Sprees''' by pyromaniac pawns.

=== Thresholds ===
{{Main|Mental Break Threshold}}
A specific pawn's mental break thresholds are affected by various personality [[traits]]. Traits may directly raise or lower mental break threshold, such as [[Steadfast]] or [[Nervous]] respectively. Some traits add permanent negative thoughts, like [[Pessimist]], or conditional negative thoughts, like [[Night owl]]. Multiple traits have an additive effect, but the minor break threshold is capped between 1% and 50%.

The major break threshold is 4/7 of the minor break threshold, while the extreme break threshold is 1/4 of that (1/7 of the minor break threshold). The base mental break threshold stat is 35%, which yields the following:
* Minor break threshold: 35%
* Major break threshold: 20%
* Extreme break threshold: 5%

=== Severity ===
There are three severity levels of mental break events, each with their own possible events and frequencies.

* Below their base mental break threshold, they will have a minor break in a mean time of 10 days.
* Below their major break threshold, they will have a major break in a mean time of 3 days.
* Below their extreme mental break threshold, their mood is ~5% and "About to break." they will have an extreme break in a mean time of 0.7 days.

=== During ===
[[File:Colonist icon while Binging on Psychite.png|frame|left|108px|Colonist icon while breaking]]
While a colonist is experiencing a mental break, their name is displayed '''in green''' in the colonist bar (at the top of the game screen), and you have no direct control over them. They may enter restricted areas, consume restricted food or drugs, attack allies, or destroy objects. [[Arrest]] the misbehaving pawn to interrupt their mischievous actions. The broken colonist has a [[Arrest Success Chance|chance]] based on the arresting pawn's stats to either go berserk, or come quietly and be escorted to the nearest available prison bed - immediately ending their mental breakdown. However, arrest will downgrade their status as a member of your colony to a prisoner. Releasing them will return them to the colony, but replaces the catharsis bonus with a 'was imprisoned' negative thought (-8).

Another more extreme way of ending a mental break is by attacking the offending pawn, such as by beating the pawn with [[Weapons#Melee weapons|blunt-damage melee weapons]] until they are incapacitated by pain, or by inflicting [[brain shock]]. This is the only way to stop a berserk pawn. However, direct violence causes the victim to have a negative opinion of the colonists who beat him up, and you risk killing the pawn if he is already injured. It is ineffective if the pawn feels reduced pain, like those with the [[Painstopper]] implant or high on [[Go-juice]].

The [[word of serenity]] psycast{{RoyaltyIcon}} will instantly end any mental break by forcing the target into a 6 hour coma. The psyfocus cost depends on the level of the mental break the target is experiencing. This cannot be used on [[babies]]{{BiotechIcon}} or [[children]]{{BiotechIcon}}.

While having a break, at the top of the game screen, a colonist will be designated with a small "lightning bolt" icon over their image; yellow for non-aggressive breaks (such as food binge or daze), and red for aggressive ones (such as tantrum or berserk).

=== Aftermath ===
Once a pawn's mental break ends, they'll revert back to their usual schedule and work and may be drafted again. Their thoughts do not 'reset,' so negative thoughts may still be present. Pawns get the [[Thoughts#Catharsis|'catharsis']] thought, granting a +40 mood for the next 2.5 days. This will generally prevent a pawns from entering a spiral of mental breakdowns in all but the worst scenarios.

Colonists with the [[Tortured artist]] trait will have a constant mood debuff ({{--|8}}) but also have a chance (50%) to receive a creative inspiration after a mental break ends. Note that this does not include the [[#Fleeing fire|Fleeing fire]], [[#Run wild|Run wild]] and [[#Catatonic breakdown|Catatonic breakdown]] breaks.

Colonists may be considered '''guilty''' after particularly destructive breaks and may then be banished or executed with no, or reduced, consequences.

=== Anomalous breaks ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Whenever a mental break happens, there's a chance that an anomalous break will happen over a normal one. If the game attempts to trigger anomalous mental break but is unable to, it will instead attempt to trigger a normal one. [[Creepjoiner|Creepjoiners]] will always trigger an anomalous break, unless none are possible. For every other pawn, the chance for Anomaly break to happen depends on the Anomaly stage.{{Check Tag|Clarification needed|Either links to a page re: what these refer to, or clarification here would be good}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Anomaly stage
! Chance
|-
| Inactive
| 5%
|-
| Stirring
| 20%
|-
| Waking
| 40%
|-
| VoidAwakened
| 60%
|-
| Gleaming
| 60%
|-
| Embraced
| 20%
|-
| Disrupted
| 0%
|}

Anomalous breaks trigger void catharsis over regular catharsis. The mental breaks which are considered anomalous are:

* [[#Dark visions|Dark visions]]
* [[#Insane ramblings|Insane ramblings]]
* [[#Entity slayer|Entity slayer]]
* [[#Entity liberator|Entity liberator]]
* [[#Terrifying hallucinations|Terrifying hallucinations]]

== Minor break ==

=== Food binge ===
[[File:FoodBinge.png|thumb|right|Food Binge]]

Causes the pawn to pig out on whatever food they can get their hands on.{{Check Tag|Details|Limits, preference, etc}}

This break can only occur when the map the pawn is currently on contains more than 10 human-edible nutrition in a [[stockpile zone]], however an already ongoing binge will not end if all the food is consumed or otherwise removed. Pawns with the [[Trait#Gourmand|Gourmand trait]] will experience this on average once every 50 days.

Pawns may ignore [[food policy]] restrictions during this binge, and will also disregard whether a food item has been disallowed. Pawns tend to prioritize eating higher-quality food regardless of such restrictions.{{Check Tag|Details|Requires more testing to be more specific}} If there is no food, or only low quality (raw (?)) food available in storage, pawns may travel large distances across the map to eat other food on the map, including [[insect jelly]] that is guarded by hostile [[insectoids]]. This can result in pawns being killed by insect hives.

A binge will end as soon as the affected pawn goes to bed, or after a certain amount of time has passed. Note that if [[wake-up]] is available, the pawn will take it during their break down, extending it to its maximum duration.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.8
{{clear}}

=== Sad wander ===
[[File:SadWander.png|thumb|right|Sad Wander]]

Causes the pawn to wander around aimlessly, eventually recovering on their own. Like the [[Mental break#Psychotic wandering (Daze)|Psychotic wandering (Daze)]] event, but shorter.

Wandering colonists can be [[prisoners|arrested]], which can be useful if they are in imminent danger.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Hide in room ===
[[File:HideInRoom.png|thumb|right|Hide in Room]]

Causes the pawn to wander about in their room, refusing to come out or satisfy their needs.

This break can only occur if the breaking pawn has a bedroom assigned to them.

This break is relatively short, and usually does not put the pawn in harm's way. At worst, the pawn may suffer from mild starvation or exhaustion.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Insulting spree ===
Causes the pawn insult nearby colonists at random, making moods worse for everyone affected.

Insults can lead to a social fight, which would then lead to the end of the break.

Requires at least two other pathable colonists to occur.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Targeted insulting spree ===
Causes the pawn to follow and repeatedly insult one other colonist in particular.

This can totally ruin the victim's mood with an up to {{Bad|-33}} mood penalty through 10 stacked insults, which can potentially trigger a mental break in the victim as well.

Insults can lead to a social fight, which would then lead to the end of the break.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Crying ===
{{Biotech|section=1}}
Babies may randomly cry while awake, being more likely to occur under 50% mood. This mental break is '''silent''' and can only be seen if the name is temporarily changed to green, emitting a random crying surrounding around itself.

Colonist near the baby will experience a negative mood effect "Baby crying" {{Bad|-4}} unless they are a "Psychopath". Any pawn's opinion of the crying baby will drop by {{Bad|-12}}.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Giggling ===
{{Biotech|section=1}}
Babies may randomly giggle while awake, being more likely to occur over 50% mood. This mental break is '''silent''' and can only be seen if the name is temporarily changed to green, emitting a rainbow of colorful drawing around itself.

Colonist near the baby will experience a positive mood effect "Baby giggling" {{Good|+4}} unless they are a "Psychopath". Any pawn's opinion of the giggling baby will increase by {{Good|+12}}.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Dark visions ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Causes the pawn to mindlessly wander around, spouting utter nonsense about things that only they can see every 20-60 seconds, even if the pawn is incapable of talking. This can cause a negative mood effect of {{Bad|-2}} in nearby colonists, which can stack up to four times.

Upon recovery, the colonist will gain a {{Good|+30}} "Void catharsis"{{Check Tag|Thought template}} thought in place of the regular {{Good|+40}} that other mental breaks have.
:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|30000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|45000}} 
{{clear}}

==Major break==

===Social drug binge===
{{See also|Mental break#Hard drug binge{{!}}Hard drug binge}}
[[File:SocialBinge.png|thumb|right|Social Drug Binge]]

Causes the pawn to drink or smoke their problems away by binging on [[social drugs]] (i.e. [[ambrosia]], [[beer]], [[smokeleaf joint]]s, [[psychite tea]]).

This can only happen if you have social drugs present in your colony.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|8000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1

Pawns with the [[Teetotaler]] trait will never have this mental break but pawns with [[Ideoligion#Drug_use|Negative drug use]] precept{{IdeologyIcon}} still can, in which case they may get a negative "used drug" moodlet dependent on the precept if they successfully act on the binge.
{{clear}}

===Psychotic wandering (Daze)===
[[File:Daze.png|thumb|right|Daze]]

Causes the pawn to wander around aimlessly, eventually recovering on their own. The letter informing you of this break refers to it as a "Daze."

Affected colonists can ignore [[food restriction]]s. This can push the colony to collapse, especially with few colonists and without enough automation.

Dazed colonists can be [[prisoners|arrested]], which can be useful if they are in imminent danger.

Unlike sad wandering, [[prisoners]] can stage prison breaks whilst in this mental state. They will still wander around aimlessly, but will be able to open doors. They may still attack colonists if caught in melee.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}}* 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|70000}}* 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|90000}}* 
:'''Commonality:''' 1 (See next)

'''Note:''' It has been observed that if a "dazed" colonist falls asleep, the recovery timer appears to pause until they wake up again.{{Check Tag|Verification|Observed in ver 1.3, Jan '22. But not vanilla, a couple dozen mods, so not 100% clear.}}
{{clear}}

[[File:Daze.png|thumb|right|Daze]]

===Psychotic wandering (Daze) Short===
Identical to the above, but with a shorter minimum time. Combined with the above break, this effectively doubles the chance of getting a "Psychotic Wandering" break.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|2500}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|90000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1 (See previous)
{{clear}}

=== Tantrum ===
Causes the pawn to take out their anger on the structures in the colony, randomly punching at (and possibly destroying) them. The attacks may create [[Filth#Building_rubble|building rubble]] in the process.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|8000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|12000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.333
{{clear}}

=== Targeted tantrum ===
Causes the pawn to take out their anger on a single structure or stack of items, punching at them until eventually destroyed. The tantrum will redirect to another structure or stack of items if that structure or stack of items is destroyed or made inaccessible.

Targeted tantrums are significantly more dangerous than the non-targeted variety, as the pawn has a much higher chance of actually destroying things instead of simply damaging them. They are especially dangerous when the pawn targets mortar shells (beware the [[antigrain warhead]]), which explode upon destruction, or if they attack important stacks such as stacks of components or medicine that the colony relies upon.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.333
{{clear}}

=== Bedroom tantrum ===
Causes the pawn to hide in their bedroom and randomly punch at structures within.

Simply unassigning the bedroom of the colonist by switching the bed to either prisoner or slave will stop them from damaging anything after the first hit.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.333
{{clear}}

=== Sadistic rage ===
Causes the pawn to periodically melee attack prisoners for the duration of the mental break.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|30000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Corpse obsession ===
[[File:Corpse obsession.png|thumb|right|Corpse obsession]]
Causes the pawn to go to a grave or sarcophagus, dig up a corpse and drop it on a high-traffic spot, such as a table in a dining room. The obsession will then end.

This break can only occur if you have a filled grave or sarcophagus. The pawn is required to be capable of [[manipulation]].

While this break is somewhat quick, it can potentially bring "Observed corpse" mood debuffs to whoever sees the corpse, and can trigger a colony-wide "Colonist left unburied" mood debuff if the corpse was of a colonist.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|50000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|70000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.4
{{clear}}

=== Insane ramblings ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Causes the pawn to mindlessly wander around and spout utter nonsense every 10-15 seconds. Essentially a major variation of the dark visions break.

Much like dark visions, nearby colonists will experience negative thoughts, and the rambling pawn will gain a {{Good|+30}} thought upon recovery.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
{{clear}}

=== Entity slayer ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Afflicted pawn will try to execute as many captive [[Entity|entities]] as possible.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|2000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|8000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|12000}} 
{{clear}}

=== Humanity break ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Occurs in place of any mood-related mental break in colonists following an [[Ideoligion]] with the [[Ideoligion#Inhumanizing|Inhumanizing: Required]] precept. The pawn will wander around for some time and after recovery, will receive the [[inhumanized]] permanent hediff that prevents them from experiencing the break instead, among other things. They will gain a permanent {{Good|+8}} thought in place of the standard catharsis thought.
:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|15000}} 

==Extreme break==

===Berserk===
[[File:BerserkScreenshot.png|thumb|right|Berserk]]
The pawn will lose total control, melee attacking any living creature near them. They will not intentionally kill anything, although unlucky hits may still result in death, instead redirecting to another target once their current target is downed.

Pawns that are [[Work#Incapable_of_work_types|incapable of violent]] can still go berserk. Berserk colonists are able to use doors that are forbidden, and don't close doors behind them (auto-doors included). Berserk prisoners will bash at doors until they break.

Subduing the berserk pawn with bare fists or a blunt weapon poses the least risk of killing them. Once a berserk pawn is subdued, the break is over. They do not need to be arrested, and can be immediately rescued to recover from their injuries. If the berserker is not in danger and can be safely avoided, it can be best to leave them to rampage by themselves until their berserk rage wears off to avoid injuries.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Fire starting spree ===
[[File:Fire Starting Spree.png|thumb|right|Fire Starting Spree]]
Causes the pawn to go on a fire starting spree, targeting flammable materials and setting them ablaze.

Only [[pyromaniac]]s can suffer this break. It will replace all extreme breaks that they would otherwise suffer, as well as occur randomly, regardless of mood, with an {{MTB}} of 50 days. Pyromaniacs do not gain the Catharsis thought after these random fire starting sprees but will for sprees caused by low mood.

The [[pyrophobia]] gene{{BiotechIcon}} suppresses the pyromania trait entirely, including this mental break.

Fire-starting sprees are very short and can easily be dealt with by having somebody else "babysit" the pyromaniac, putting out fires as the pyromaniac pawn starts them. However, it is worthwhile to consider that they may also target volatile objects such as [[chemfuel]].

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|2000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|6000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Hard drug binge ===
{{See also|Mental break#Social drug binge{{!}}Social drug binge}}
[[File:HardBinge.png|thumb|right|Hard Drug Binge]]

Causes the pawn to binge on [[hard drugs]] (i.e. [[flake]], [[yayo]], [[go-juice]] and [[wake-up]]).

Hard drug binges are considerably more dangerous for the affected colonist's health than social drug binges, as hard drugs contribute towards [[overdose]]s which are potentially lethal, and can easily lead to an addiction and/or chemical damage. As with social binges, hard binges will either end when the affected colonist goes to bed, or after a certain amount of time has passed. Colonists taking [[penoxycyline]] and [[luciferium]] have nothing to do with the drug binge they are on.

Pawns with the [[Teetotaler]] trait will never have this mental break but pawns with [[Ideoligion#Drug_use|Negative drug use]] precept{{IdeologyIcon}} still can, in which case they may get a negative "used drug" moodlet dependent on the precept if they successfully act on the binge.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|8000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

===Catatonic breakdown===
Causes the pawn to enter a ''catatonic breakdown'' state, where they become incapacitated and need to be rescued.

This is one of the least immediately harmful of the extreme breaks as it does not result in injury or damage to colonists or structures. However, the affected colonist will be down for quite a long time, and unable to perform any work. This can be especially detrimental if the colonist performs a vital task in the colony.

Since catatonic breakdown is technically a health condition, usage of the [[healer mech serum]] or [[unnatural healing]]{{AnomalyIcon}} can instantly bring the affected colonist out of the mental break.

Only colonists can experience this mental break. Pawns from other factions, not under the players control, will not. Temporary colonists from [[quests]] or from [[permits]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} can experience this mental break.

This mental break does not trigger the Inspired Creativity [[mental inspiration]] from the [[Tortured artist]] trait.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|100000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|300000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Jailbreaker ===
[[File:Jailbreaker.png|thumb|right|Jailbreaker]]

The pawn will move to the targeted prisoner, and upon reaching them, a [[prison break]] event will trigger. Afterwards, the mental break will be changed to something else.

The pawn can be arrested or downed before reaching the prison cell.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Slaughterer ===
Causes the pawn to slaughter tamed animals at random.

If you have a lot of tamed animals this usually won't cause major losses, but there's a chance the maddened colonist may decide to butcher a [[bond]]ed animal, a [[boomalope]], or your favorite tamed [[thrumbo]], none of which are "good" outcomes.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|2000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|8000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|12000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.75
{{clear}}

=== Murderous rage ===
[[File:Murderous rage.png|thumb|right|400px|Murderous rage]]

Causes the pawn to select a random colonist or prisoner and melee attack them until they are dead. Once the target is killed the break is over.

This requires intervention from other colonists if the life of the victim is to be saved.
#This can be interrupted by attempting arrest or [[down]]ing the mentally broken pawn. If an arrest is attempted and fails, it will make the pawn [[berserk]], which may be easier as berserked pawns do not attempt to kill.
#If the murder target is rescued or otherwise becomes unpathable to the maddened colonist, they will instead select a new victim.

This break can occur in pawns placed temporarily under your control, such as those provided by [[quests]] or from [[permits]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}.

It is ten times less likely to occur in a colony with a population of two, and it increases linearly to the normal level at a population of seven or more.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|100000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|100000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{Clear}}

=== Run wild ===
Causes the pawn to run into the wild and start acting like an animal. While acting like an animal, the pawn will subsist on wild sources of food, usually berry bushes or agave in arid biomes. They may wander across spike traps and randomly trigger them.

Unlike other breaks, this one lasts indefinitely without intervention. The only way to end it is to have another colonist tame the broken colonist and convince them to act like a human again. Taming a wild man is equivalent to taming an animal of 75% wildness, equivalent to an [[elephant]] or [[fox]], and requiring an [[Skills#Animals|Animals]] skill of 7 or greater.

Damaging them until they are downed isn't an advisable option; since they don't belong to your faction anymore, they will most likely die upon receiving enough damage to become incapacitated. Using a [[psychic shock lance]] to down them will ignore the [[death on downed]] chance, however there is always the risk of brain damage. If rescued, they have a chance to join you upon recovery.

Upon taming, they will have their usual Catharsis moodlet, and will have their Beauty and Comfort needs set to 50%, while their Outdoors needs is set to 100%.

It is much less likely to happen at lower population levels.

Additionally, it appears that this mental break does not trigger the Inspired Creativity [[mental inspiration]] from the [[Tortured artist]] trait, however more testing is needed.{{Check Tag|Verify}}

:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Given up and leaving ===
Causes the pawn to decide they've had enough with the colony, and leave entirely.

This can be countered either by arresting the colonist, or incapacitating them by force. Sometimes a pawn can decide to return to the colony after having this break, but before they have left the map. For example, this can happen if the colonist is in the [[labyrinth]],{{AnomalyIcon}} which they cannot leave - the colonist will simply wander around the labyrinth for a while before "deciding" to stay in the colony.

Quest lodgers and [[slaves]] cannot get this mental break. It will never occur if there are seven or less members in the colony, and the commonality increases with colonists, 0.2 at 8, 0.4 at 9, 0.6 at 10, 0.8 at 11 and 1 at 12+

:'''Commonality:''' 1

=== Crisis of belief ===
{{Ideology|section=1}}
{{Stub|reason=Confirmation and detail on how the weighting used to choose the replacement ideoligion is calculated - see GetIdeoWeight function}}
A pawn undergoes a crisis of faith in their [[ideoligion]], losing 50% of their [[Certainty]]. Unlike many forms of Certainty loss, this value is not modified by the pawn's their [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]].

Should this loss be sufficient to reduce the pawn to 0%, they will instead immediately convert to a different ideoligion. This ideoligion is randomly selected from all ideoligions in the current world, including the player's, with weighting based on the following factors:
* Every ideoligion has a base value of 1.
* +1 for each [[faction]] with that ideoligion that is allied to the breaking pawn's faction
* +1 for each spawned pawn with that ideoligion, on any map, that is the same faction as the breaking pawn
'''AND EITHER'''
* +1 for each spawned pawn on the same map from the same faction as the breaking pawn, or from a non-hostile faction.
'''OR'''
* +1 for each pawn with the ideoligion currently on a caravan, if the breaking pawn is currently on a caravan.
The random generator will never return the pawn's current ideoligion.

:'''Commonality:''' 1
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=== Entity liberator ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
The pawn is suddenly allured by a captive [[Entity|entity]], and will free it.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
{{clear}}

=== Terrifying hallucinations ===
[[File:Terrifying Hallucinations Demo.png|thumb|right|Terrifying hallucinations]]
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
The pawn will break down and start to hallucinate, seeing fellow colonists as nightmarish figures and will flee from anyone they perceive as a threat.

Whilst a pawn is in this state, shadowy figures will swirl around the afflicted pawn and they will ramble insane nonsense every 10-30 seconds. Much like other nonsensical rambling mental states, other colonists will be slightly upset by the afflicted pawn's nonsensical gibberish. The break may end when the pawn goes to sleep.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|60000}} 
{{clear}}

== Special ==
These mental states aren't mood-related, and have certain circumstances required to trigger them.

=== Confusion ===
[[File:Confusion.png|thumb|right|Confused and wandering]]

Similar to the 'Sad Wandering' mental state, except confused wandering only occurs on a pawn with Alzheimer's or Dementia, as well as those still woozy or recovering from anesthesia.

This mental state is similar to psychotic wandering in the respect that confused pawns are prone to wandering into dangerous situations, however they do not strip off their equipment. This mental state ends after a certain period of time, or when the affected pawn is downed or killed. All normal thoughts are blocked during this time frame.

It can also occur in animals after their [[bond]]ed master dies.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|12000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|3500}} 
{{clear}}

=== Social fighting ===
[[File:Social fighting.png|thumb|right|Traders social fighting]]

Social fighting is triggered when one pawn slights or insults another (significantly more likely with insulting than slighting), and the affected pawn gets angered. While very brief and usually only resulting in minor-moderate injury, social fighting can also end up with much worse results including a pawn getting downed, disfigured, or uncommonly even outright killed. Social fighting ends after a very short time, or when one of the fighting pawns gets downed or killed.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|1200}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|420}} 
{{clear}}

=== Fleeing in panic ===
[[File:Fleeing in panic.png|thumb|right|Fleeing in panic]]

This sort of mental break happens when half (rounded up) of a group of non-colonist humans are killed; whether it be hostiles, traders, or the like. Pawns affected by this mental state will attempt to leave the map by any means possible as soon as they realize that they're not going to win whatever battle they got caught up in.

This mental state will end once the affected pawn leaves the map, or when they're killed.

Pawns in this state will run indiscriminately towards the closest edge of the map, completely disregarding any hostiles in the way (such as your colonists firing at them), trying to smash down doors even when there is a clear path out next to them.
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=== Fleeing fire ===
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This sort of mental break happens when a pawn with [[Pyrophobia]] gene happens to be near the fire. It will cause them to flee far away from the source of fire.

This mental state will end once he or she no longer see fire within their field of vision.

The affected colonist does not gain the [Catharsis] mood buff from fleeing fire.
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=== Manhunter ===
{{For|the [[event]] that causes a pack of animals affected by this break to spawn on the map|Events#Manhunter pack}}
Animals may suffer a manhunter mental break, similar to [[Mental break#Berserk|berserk]]. A manhunter animal will seek out and attack any humans and [[Mechanoids]]. Animal pulser maddened animals will attack mechs on the map it can reach, regardless of faction, but will ignore tamed animals.

Manhunters will not spontaneously attempt to break through obstacles to hunt down pawns, but will attack doors if they see someone go through them. They will cease their attack after a short period, but may still successfully break it down in that time. If strong doors are not available to hide behind, try to get out of line of sight before ducking into a nearby building, be ready to repair the door from the inside, or simply accept that the door is only a temporary barrier.

The mental break can be triggered in several ways:
* Via the [[Events#Mad (Animal)|Mad Animal]] event. Affects 1 wild animal.
* Via the [[Events#Psychic Wave|Psychic Wave]] event. Affects all wild animals on the relevant map.
* Via the use of a [[psychic animal pulser]]. Affects all non-player owned animals on the relevant map.
* Via the use of [[Manhunter pulse|Manhunter Pulse]]. Affects all animals (including player-owned animals) within the target radius.
* Via injury inflicted by any human pawn. Chance is controlled by the animal's "Manhunter Chance", the [[hunting stealth]] of the injuring pawn, and the distance between the pawn and the animal. Affects the injured animal, and in the case of certain herd animals, any nearby animals of the same species.
* Via a failed taming attempt angering the animal. Chance is controlled by the animal's "Manhunter Chance (Taming)". Affects the targeted wild animal.{{Check Tag|Herd?|Can this trigger herd revenge as well?}}
* Via the death of their [[bond]]ed master.{{Check Tag|Chance?}} Affects any tamed and bonded animal

An animal's manhunting rampage will end after a certain amount of time, upon the animal sleeping, or once [[downed]].

Manhunter animals with [[Scaria]] can not be [[tame]]d without first curing them. Attempts to [[prioritize]] the taming task will result instead in a hint saying ''Animal busy''.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|18000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 

=== Manhunter Permanent ===
Permanent manhunter is randomly applied to animals that are part of a [[manhunter pack]]. Affected animals will never snap out of this mental state under normal circumstances, and completely neglect their own needs. Animals in this state will generally leave the area within a few days.

Some manhunter animals, such as [[boomrat]]s, will typically starve to death due to their hunger rate combined with the typical manhunter animal duration.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|99999999}} 

=== Roaming ===
Introduced in 1.3, farm animals (animal species that cannot be controlled via zones) can randomly get this mental break if they are outside of an enclosed pen. This can cause them to leave the map if not roped in immediately. If they are enclosed in a pen, or if they are roped in by a colonist after a valid pen is placed, this mental break will immediately end.

This does not occur on maps where they have recently been brought in, or on maps the other colonist are raiding in.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|99999999}} 

=== Berserk (short) ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
A shorter variation of the berserk break that occurs due to buildup of [[Blood rain|blood rage]]. Functions identically to its classic variant.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|10000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|15000}} 

=== Manhunter (blood rain) ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
A variation of the manhunter mental state that occurs due to buildup of [[Blood rain|blood rage]]. Functions identically to its classic variant.

Whilst it eventually comes to an end after the blood rain comes to an end, it will not stop whilst the afflicted animal goes to sleep, is downed, or collapses due to extreme exhaustion.
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|15000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|30000}} 

=== Cube sculpting ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Randomly happens in pawns with an interest in the [[Golden cube]], where they will build a sculpture on the ground in the shape of a cube. This may be made of sand, dirt, or miscellaneous scrap, depending on the surface. The break will then immediately end.

It is important to mention that these sculptures are affected by [[quality]], therefore a pawn with an Inspired Creativity [[mental inspiration]] may use their inspiration on a cube sculpture.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|20000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|35000}} 

== Tips ==
* [[Arrest]]ed [[prisoner]]s and [[prison]]s are more expensive than random damage of most mental breaks, imprisoning is usually more worth it if the mental break needs to end quickly such as during raids and when something needs to be dealt with immediately.
* Pawns during a mental break are immune to damage from [[Unnatural darkness]]{{AnomalyIcon}}, however once the mental break ends this immunity subsequently ends as well.
* [[Wimp]]s are easier to deal with during their mental breaks if avoiding imprisonment, because the lower pain shock threshold makes them be downed with less injury. The [[extra pain]] gene{{BiotechIcon}} can be installed on pawns to add the trait.
* Pawns with [[artificial body parts]] that are subject to [[brain shock]] can be easily, safely, and instantly downed upon any exposure to [[EMP]]. Note that as of the time of writing, the only parts that apply this effect are from the [[Royalty]] DLC.

== Version history ==
* [[Version/0.3.410|0.3.410]] - Mental break probability is much lower.
* [[Version/0.9.722|0.9.722]] - Binge mental break added
* [[Version/0.12.906|0.12.906]] - Dazed broken pawns will now randomly strip off clothes and drop things.
* [[Version/0.14.1234|0.14.1234]] - Added new class of “minor” mental breaks. Added minor mental break: food binge.
* [[Version/0.18.1722|0.18.1722]] - Added the following mental breaks: Insulting spree, Targeted insulting spree, Tantrum, Bedroom tantrum, Targeted tantrum, Sadistic rage, Corpse obsession, Catatonia, Jailbreaker, Slaughterer, Murderous rage, Run wild.
* Beta 19/ 1.0 - Overhauled mental break probabilities. Aside from some exceptional cases, all mental breaks are more or less equally probable.
* 1.1 - the way the different mental break thresholds were calculated was changed. Previously the major break thresholds and minor break thresholds were locked to base threshold + 15% and +30% respectively, with the base threshold at 5% for normal pawns; as a result, the mental break thresholds could be reduced by a maximum of 4% only, leading to the Iron-willed and Steadfast [[traits]] being weaker than expected.
* [[Version/1.2.2753|1.2.2753]] - Disable corpse obsession break for prisoners, as it's very unlikely to happen and is not implemented around this possibility.
* [[Version/1.3.3066|1.3.3066]] - Fix: During food binges, sometimes pawns will use recreational drugs.
* [[Version/1.4.3542|1.4.3542]] - Fix: Quest lodgers can do the "give up and exit" mental break.
* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] - Fix: Bloodfeed can be used on pawns in mental states.

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Ideoligion

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{{Ideology}}
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'''Ideoligions''' are both a system of mechanics introduced by, and the primary focus of, the [[Ideology DLC]]. They allow colonies to introduce a variety of new restrictions and capabilities to change gameplay, as well as new interactions with other factions.
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== Type of ideoligion ==
Whenever you start a new game, you will see the Ideology selection menu once you've selected a world tile.

* '''Ideology system inactive''' - Disables most of the Ideology system. Player colonies and factions will no longer have any ideoligion. With this option, you can create any ''style'', or cosmetic variant, of building (click the circle icon in the [[Architect]] tab, right next to the search bar).
:However, some aspects of the ideoligion system remain. You can still assign a [[Leader]], and will have access to a funeral and 2 [[ritual]]s - a dance party and drum party.{{Check Tag|Verify|Extremely quick testing}} In addition, there will be 3 randomized [[relic]]s that you can search for.

* '''Create ideoligion (fluid)''' - Design an ideoligion that can change over time.
:A fluid ideoligion only has access to 1 [[meme]] at the start of the game, which cannot be a high impact meme. Otherwise, a fluid ideoligion has the same customization options as a fixed ideoligion. The difference is that a fluid ideology can change over the course of the game. As you gain [[#Development points|development points]], you can add / remove memes, and re-customize just about everything else.

* '''Create ideoligion (fixed)''' - Design an ideoligion with complete control.

* '''Presets''' - Use an ideoligion already created for you. Want to live under the mountain, but don't want to make a full ideoligion? Pick the "Mole people" preset. You will start with a Funeral and 2 other random [[ritual]]s, as well as a random [[relic]]. Other aspects of the ideoligion will also be randomized.
:For example, the "Classic-like" preset will have the following precepts:
<div style="column-count:2; width:600px">
* [[#Corpses|Corpses: Ugly]]
* [[#Insect meat|Insect meat: Despised]]
* [[#Marriage name|Marriage name: Usually man's]]
* [[#Eating nutrient paste|Eating nutrient paste: Disgusting]]
* [[#Physical love|Physical love: Free]]
* [[#Women's spouses|Women's spouses: One only]]
* [[#Men's spouses|Men's spouses: One only]]
</div>

=== Development points ===
{{For|a guide for how to convert a non-fluid ideoligion to a fluid ideoligion via save editing|Fluid ideoligion save conversion guide}}
Fluid ideoligions are mostly the same as a static one, but can be changed over time through development points. When you have enough points, you can reform the ideoligion. It costs 10 points for the first reformation, and increases by +2 per reform until a max of 20 points. You cannot "store" points; once you can reform, no more points are gained.

Development points can be obtained in the following ways:
* Performing [[rituals]]. Rituals will give a varying amount of points depending on if they are "anytime" rituals or "dated" rituals, how many rituals the ideoligion has and the quality of the ritual. If a ritual achieves a goal that awards development points (such as a conversion), both the points for the goal and the ritual are received in full. Anytime rituals (including funerals) give 1 point for a good outcome and 2 points for a great outcome.
Dated rituals grant more points the fewer rituals the ideoligion has, -as detailed below- however Funerals, Gladiator Duels, Blinding, and Scarification rituals '''''Do not''''' count for the following table.
{| class="wikitable"
!
! Terrible
! Boring
! Fun
! Unforgettable
|-
! 1 Ritual
| 2
| 4
| 6
| 7
|-
! 2 Rituals
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
|-
! 3 Rituals
| 1
| 1
| 2
| 3
|-
! 4 Rituals
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 2
|-
! 5+ Rituals
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 1
|}

* Converting someone: 1 point.
Certain [[#Precepts|precepts]] allow an ideoligion to gain points from actions related to the precept.
* [[#Blindness|Blindness: Respected, Elevated or Sublime]]: Blinding someone: 1 point
* [[#Charity|Charity: Worthwhile, Important or Essential]]: Completing charity quests and accepting charity events
** [[Quests#Beggars|Helping beggars]]: 2 points
** [[Events#Wanderer joins|Accepting joining wanderer]]: 1 point
** [[Quests#Hospitality|Giving hospitality]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}: 2 points
** [[Quests#Shuttle Crash|Saving shuttle crash survivors]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}: 3 points
** [[Events#Transport pod crash|Saving a pod crash victim]]: 1 point
** [[Quests#Noble Wimp|Saving the noble wimp]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}: 1 point
** [[Quests#Threatened Joiner|Helping the threatened joiner]]: 2 points
* [[#Execution|Execution: Respected if guilty or Required]]: Executing prisoner: 1 point
* [[#Proselytizing|Proselytizing: Occasional, Sometimes or Frequent]]:
** Converting a new member: 1 point (in addition to the normal 1 point)
** Obtaining a [[Relic|relic]]: 5 points
** Completing the [[Quests#Pilgrims|pilgrims]] quest: 2 points
* [[#Raiding|Raiding: Respected or Required]]:
** Raiding someone: 1 point
** Raiding a bandit camp or work site: 2 points
* [[#Ranching|Ranching: Central]]: Successfully completing an [[Quests#Hospitality|Animal Hospitality quest]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}: 2 points
* [[#Slavery|Slavery: Honorable]]: Enslaving new prisoner: 1 point
* [[#Gauranlen connection|Gauranlen Connection: Strong]]: Planting gauranlen tree: 1 point

Reformation allows you to add ''or'' remove 1 meme, ''or'' change the structure of your ideoligion. If you add a meme, you cannot remove / replace another meme or change structure. In addition, you can only add 1 [[style]] at a time. All other changes are unlimited.

== Forming an ideoligion ==
An ideoligion consists of many separate aspects to customize:

'''Primary'''
* '''[[#Structure|Structure]]''' - What deities (or lack thereof) that followers believe in. Examples include ''Abstract theist'', that "god(s) are formless and everywhere", or ''Christian origin'', which is closer to the Abrahamic religions of the west. Structure helps determine the randomized names and lore of your ideoligion. This is almost entirely cosmetic, but can add a few ritual options.

* '''[[#Memes|Memes]]''' - The basic beliefs of the ideoligion. An ideoligion with the ''Cannibal'' meme will definitely enjoy human meat. Each ideoligion can have up to 4 memes. Most memes do not add much on their own, but affect what precepts the ideoligion has and cannot have. Some memes have access to [[roles|specialists]].

* '''[[#Precepts|Precepts]]''' - What a follower's belief systems are. Precepts directly determine how colonists will react to certain actions. An ideoligion with ''Cannibalism: Preferred'' will have followers enjoy eating human meat. An ideoligion with ''Cannibalism: Required (Ravenous)'' will want to eat human meat for every meal.
:Certain precepts have statistical effects beyond mood. For instance, ''Drugs: Essential'' boosts drug crop yield, synthesis speed, and sell price. These tend to be locked behind their associated meme.

'''Secondary'''
* '''[[Rituals]]''' - Special occasions, from Dance Party to Animal Sacrifice to Funerals. Every time you do a ritual, you can end up with a good or bad outcome. Good outcomes will increase colonist [[mood]], and come with a special, defined reward. For example, a spectacular festival can give you a random recruit, or cause a [[gauranlen pod]] to sprout.

:You can increase the chances of a good outcomes by following the ritual's requirements. A funeral can be done without your colonist's body, but the quality will be increased if the corpse is buried.

* '''[[#Roles|Roles]]''' - Every ideoligion has a Leader and Moral Guide. From there, you can have up to 2 types of specialists. A Shooting Specialist will be great at ranged combat, but is unable to do many types of skilled work. Note that you can have as many specialists of a specific type as you want. For example, you can have 3 Shooting Specialists in a single colony, but cannot have a Shooting, Plants, AND Research specialist in the same ideoligion.

* '''[[Relic]]s''' - Ideoligions can have relics. Relics can be either Legendary [[quality]] weapons or specific types of items that serve no other purpose. Relics must be found from a specific, multi-part relic hunt quest, which can take many years. Having a relic present will cause a number of benefits.

* '''Buildings''' - Buildings used by your ideoligion: [[altar]]s, [[sacrificial flag]]s, etc. Largely used for rituals. Altars and the like will eventually be demanded by followers of your ideoligion in a temple room.

* '''Preferences''' - Ideoligions can prefer [[apparel]], [[weapon]]s, and [[xenotype]]s {{BiotechIcon}}, as well as venerate specific [[animal]]s. Colonists will like having/being around preferred items. Whether a colonist will dislike a non-preferred item is dependent on the preference in question.

'''Descriptive'''
* '''[[#Styles|Styles]]''' - How buildings made by an ideoligious builder will look. Largely cosmetic. However, it interacts with the Diversity of Thought precept. If colonists are neutral or bigoted, then they will enjoy being near styles of the same ideoligion. If colonists appreciate Diversity of Thought, they will enjoy being near styled buildings that their ideoligion could not make. Certain styles will affect more or less buildings.

* '''[[#Cultures|Cultures]]''' - Roughly where your ideoligion comes from. Astropolitian represents those coming from space. Corunan represents [[New Tribe|tribes]] in general. Entirely cosmetic.

* '''Lore''' - A randomly generated description of the ideoligion, based off of memes, structures, cultures, etc. Entirely cosmetic.

* '''Icon / color''' - An ideoligion's icon is used whenever an ideology will be displayed. The color of the icon will be a preferred color for followers. Followers gain a {{+|1}} moodlet for wearing their ideology's color, or their own favorite color. All colors require [[dye]] and the same amount of dye.

== Certainty ==
{{Main|Certainty}}

'''Certainty''' is how willing a colonist is to maintain their current ideoligion. Conversion attempts reduce certainty. Once certainty hits 0%, a pawn's ideology will change.

== Structure ==
Choosing your structure affects which symbols the game uses for your ideoligion, and allows for the selection of some rituals that would otherwise require specific memes. It also influences some random generation options and flavor text but these can be overridden by player selection.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Structure !! Description !! Styles !! Unlocked Rituals !! Chance to Have Precept
|- id="Abstract theist"
! Abstract theist [[File:Abstract theist.png|64px]]
| The god(s) do not have physical form, but are everywhere at once. They know all, and can do anything. Their will defines the moral structure of the universe. || || ||
|- id="Animist"
! Animist [[File:Animist.png|64px]]
| Spirits live in everything around us. In the plants and animals, rivers and trees, sky and stars. The moral structure of the universe springs from the necessity of respecting them. || Animalist || ||
|- id="Archist"
! Archist [[File:Archist.png|64px]]
| Archotechs are the true gods. They know the moral structure of the universe, and serving them is how we will connect with it. || || ||
|- id="Buddhist origin"
! Buddhist origin [[File:Buddhist origin.png|64px]]
| This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Buddhism. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar. || Buddhist || Smokeleaf circle || Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
|- id="Christian origin"
! Christian origin [[File:Christian origin.png|64px]]
| This is a variant of the abstract theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Christianity. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar. || Christian || Christmas tree party || Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
|- id="Embodied theist"
! Embodied theist [[File:Embodied theist.png|64px]]
| The god(s) walk the planets like us, yet they are powerful and immortal as we are not. They decide the moral structure of the universe. || || ||
|- id="Hindu origin"
! Hindu origin [[File:Hindu origin.png|64px]]
| This is a variant of the embodied theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Hinduism. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar. || Hindu || Smokeleaf circle || Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
|- id="Ideological"
! Ideological [[File:Ideological.png|64px]]
| There are no gods. The moral structure of the universe is found in our grand narrative of social forces. || || Symbol burning ||
|- id="Islamic origin"
! Islamic origin [[File:Islamic origin.png|64px]]
| This is a variant of the abstract theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Islam. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar. || Islamic || || Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
|}

== Cultures ==
Cultures affect names, appearances, and symbols.

{| class="wikitable"
! Culture !! Factions Allowed !! Description
|- id="Astropolitan"
! Astropolitan [[File:Astropolitan.png|32px]]
| [[New Arrivals]] || A broad collection of cultures common among frequent space travelers.
|- id="Rustican"
! Rustican [[File:Civil outlander.png|32px]]
| [[Outlander]] Factions || A hardy industrial cultures common among rimworld outlanders.
|- id="Corunan"
! Corunan [[File:GentleTribe.png|32px]]
| [[New Tribe]] [[Tribal]] Factions || An ancient culture common among rimworld tribes.
|- id="Kriminul"
! Kriminul [[File:Pirate.png|32px]]
| [[Pirate]] Factions || A broad category describing the styles and practices of many pirate groups.
|- id="Sophian"
! Sophian {{RoyaltyIcon}} [[File:Empire map marker.png|32px]]
| [[Empire]] Faction [[Ancient]] Factions || A techno-feudal culture centered on the planet Sophiamunda.
|}

== Styles ==
{{recode|section=1|reason=Use collapsibles to allow a non-intrusive display of the styles where the reader can tab between the styles}}
An ideoligion can have 0-3 associated styles. People belonging to that ideoligion will apply those styles when making specific items. Colonists will get thoughts based on the styles of the objects around them, depending on their ideoligion's [[#Diversity of thought|diversity of thought]] precept either for having surroundings match or not match their ideoligion. Neutral surroundings produce no thought. If multiple styles of an ideoligion affect the same object, left-most applies. Note that building appearance in the construction menu will be based on your primary ideoligion, but the actual building might be different if built by a pawn of a different ideoligion.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! style=width:6em | Style !! New buildables !! Affects items !! Affects objects !! Affects ritual ambience sound !! Player-accessible
|- id="Style Hindu"
| [[File:Style Hindu.png|18px]] Hindu
| -
| [[Simple helmet#Styles|Simple helmet]], [[Flak helmet#Styles|Flak helmet]]
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Christian"
| [[File:Style Christian.png|18px]] Christian
| -
| -
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Islamic"
| [[File:Style Islam.png|18px]] Islamic
| -
| -
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Buddhist"
| [[File:Style Buddhism.png|18px]] Buddhist
| -
| -
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Morbid"
| [[File:Style Morbid.png|18px]] Morbid
| [[Morbid carpet]], [[Morbid slab (broad)]], [[Morbid slab (medium)]], [[Morbid stone tile]] || [[Recon helmet#Styles|Recon helmet]], [[Marine helmet#Styles|Marine helmet]], [[Cataphract helmet#Styles|Cataphract helmet]]
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]], [[Small altar#Styles|Small altar]], [[Medium altar#Styles|Medium altar]], [[Large altar#Styles|Large altar]], [[Grand altar#Styles|Grand altar]], [[Stool#Styles|Stool]], Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]]), [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Wall lamp#Styles|Wall lamp]], [[Torch lamp#Styles|Torch lamp]], [[Wall torch lamp#Styles|Wall torch lamp]], [[Column#Styles|Column]]
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Totemic"
| [[File:Style Totemic.png|18px]] Totemic
| [[Totemic boards]], [[Totemic slab (broad)]], [[Totemic slab (medium)]], [[Totemic stone tile]]
| [[Recon helmet#Styles|Recon helmet]], [[Marine helmet#Styles|Marine helmet]], [[Cataphract helmet#Styles|Cataphract helmet]]
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]], [[Small altar#Styles|Small altar]], [[Medium altar#Styles|Medium altar]], [[Large altar#Styles|Large altar]], [[Grand altar#Styles|Grand altar]], [[Stool#Styles|Stool]], [[Dining chair#Styles|Dining chair]], Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]]), [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Wall lamp#Styles|Wall lamp]], [[Torch lamp#Styles|Torch lamp]], [[Wall torch lamp#Styles|Wall torch lamp]], [[Column#Styles|Column]]
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Spikecore"
| [[File:Style Spikecore.png|18px]] Spikecore
| [[Spikecore floor-star (broad)]], [[Spikecore floor-star (medium)]], [[Spikecore plates]], [[Spikecore stone tile]] || [[Simple helmet#Styles|Simple helmet]], [[Flak helmet#Styles|Flak helmet]], [[Flak jacket#Styles|Flak jacket]], [[Duster#Styles|Duster]], [[Jacket#Styles|Jacket]], [[Parka#Styles|Parka]]
| Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]]), [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Wall lamp#Styles|Wall lamp]], [[Torch lamp#Styles|Torch lamp]], [[Wall torch lamp#Styles|Wall torch lamp]], [[Column#Styles|Column]]
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Rustic"
| [[File:Style Rustic.png|18px]] Rustic
| [[Rustic rug (broad)]], [[Rustic rug (medium)]]
| [[Simple helmet#Styles|Simple helmet]], [[Flak helmet#Styles|Flak helmet]]
| [[Column#Styles|Column]], [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Wall lamp#Styles|Wall lamp]], [[Torch lamp#Styles|Torch lamp]], [[Wall torch lamp#Styles|Wall torch lamp]], Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]])
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Animalist"
| [[File:Style Animalist.png|18px]] Animalist
| [[Animalist slab (broad)]], [[Animalist slab (medium)]]
| [[Recon helmet#Styles|Recon helmet]], [[Marine helmet#Styles|Marine helmet]], [[Cataphract helmet#Styles|Cataphract helmet]], [[War mask#Styles|War mask]]
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Techist"
| [[File:Style Techist.png|18px]] Techist
| [[Hex carpet]], [[Hex tile]]
| -
| [[Column#Styles|Column]], [[Plant pot#Styles|Plant pot]], [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Wall lamp#Styles|Wall lamp]], [[Shelf#Styles|Shelf]], [[Autodoor#Styles|Autodoor]], Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]])
| Yes
| Yes
|- id="Style Horaxian"
| [[File:Style Horaxian.png|18px]] Horaxian{{AnomalyIcon}}
| -
| [[Axe#Styles|Axe]], [[Club#Styles|Club]], [[Gladius#Styles|Gladius]], [[Knife#Styles|Knife]], [[Mace#Styles|Mace]]
| -
| No
| No
|}

=== Style dominance ===
Pawns consider objects with style dominance within 27 tiles outdoors, or in the same room regardless of distance. An item is considered "uniform" if pawn's ideoligion can build it, and "diverse" otherwise, regardless of the actual style: for example, a totemic table will be considered diverse for an ideoligion with morbid and totemic styles, because the morbid style overrides totemic tables. If the total style dominance of uniform or diverse objects is at least 10 more than the other category, pawns will get an appropriate thought; the actual style of the object does not matter for stacking either: a morbid slab and a totemic slab in the same room will be uniform for an ideoligion with both styles, cancel each other out and give no thought for an ideoligion with one of those styles, and diverse for an ideoligion with neither.

An ideoligion with no styles would still consider its own buildings (such as ideogram), but not ritual seats, to be uniform.

Clothing, whether worn or placed on the ground, and uninstalled objects have no impact on style dominance.

{{#ask: [[Style Dominance::+]]
| ?Style Dominance
}}

== Memes ==
You must choose one to four memes at the beginning of your playthrough to form the foundational ideas of your ideoligion. Some have much more gameplay impact than others. Hovering over a meme will show you the information in this table.

{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign:top}}
! Meme !! Description !! Impact !! Incompatible Memes !! Required Precepts !! Chance to Have Precept !! Disabled Precepts !! Unlocked Roles !! Required Rituals !! Unlocked Rituals !! New Buildables !! Unlocked Craftables !! Start with Research !! Agreeing Traits !! Conflicting Traits !! Styles
|- id="Animal personhood"
! '''Animal personhood''' [[File:Animal personhood.png|64px]]
| Animals have rights as humans do. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High || [[#Rancher|Rancher]] || '''[[#Animal connection|Animal connection:]]''' Strong '''[[#Slaughtering animals|Slaughtering animals:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, or Disapproved '''[[#Meat eating|Meat eating:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, or Disapproved {{OdysseyIcon}}'''[[#Fishing|Fishing:]]''' Prohibited or Disapproved || - || - || [[Ideoligion#Animals specialist|Animals specialist]] || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Blindsight"
! '''[[Blindsight]]''' [[File:Blindsight.png|64px]]
| Only those who are blind can perceive true reality. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High || [[#Darkness|Darkness]] || '''[[#Blind psysense|Blind psysense:]]''' Strong '''[[#Blindness|Blindness:]]''' Respected, Elevated, or Sublime || - || '''[[#Blindness|Blindness:]]''' Horrible '''[[#Lighting|Lighting:]]''' Darklight preferred '''[[#Combat in darkness|Combat in darkness:]]''' preferred || [[Ideoligion#Medical specialist|Medical specialist]] || Blinding || - || - || [[Blindfold]] || - || - || - || -
|- id="Cannibal"
! '''Cannibal''' [[File:Cannibal.png|64px]]
| We must consume human flesh. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High || - || '''[[#Organ use|Organ use:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Cannibalism|Cannibalism:]]''' Preferred, Required (strong), or Required (ravenous) '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required || - || '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Always horrible or Horrible if innocent || - || - || Cannibal feast || - || - || - || [[Cannibal (Trait)|Cannibal]] || - || Morbid
|- id="Collectivist"
! '''Collectivist''' [[File:Collectivist.png|64px]]
| Each person is part of a greater whole. People should work to play their part and help the group. ||style="text-align: center;"data-sort-value=1|[[File:Low meme impact.png|32x32px]] Low || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''[[#Work drive|Work drive:]]''' Tripled || Visage mask: Relaxed || '''[[#Marriage name|Marriage name:]]''' Keep names || - || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Darkness"
! '''Darkness''' [[File:Darkness.png|64px]]
| Bright light burns and destroys! Darkness nourishes and creates. People ought to live in darkness. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || '''[[#Lighting|Lighting:]]''' Darklight preferred '''[[#Combat in darkness|Combat in darkness:]]''' Preferred || - || - || [[Ideoligion#Mining specialist|Mining specialist]] || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Female supremacy"
! '''Female supremacy''' [[File:Female supremacy.png|64px]]
| Women are the superior gender and should rule. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || [[#Male supremacy|Male supremacy]] || - || Burka: Relaxed Veil: Strong || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || [[Misandrist]] || [[Misogynist]] || -
|- id="Flesh purity"
! '''Flesh purity''' [[File:Flesh purity.png|64px]]
| The human body should not be debased. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || [[#High life|High life]] [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''[[#Drug use|Drug use:]]''' Prohibited '''[[#Body modification|Body modification:]]''' Abhorrent '''[[#Scarification|Scarification:]]''' Horrible || - || '''[[#Body modification|Body modification:]]''' Approved '''[[#Physical love|Physical love:]]''' Free and approved || [[Ideoligion#Medical specialist|Medical specialist]] || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || [[Body purist]] [[Nudist]] || [[Body modder]] || -
|- id="Guilty"
! '''Guilty''' [[File:Guilty.png|64px]]
| Our people carry guilt from ages past. Others are more worthy. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=1|[[File:Low meme impact.png|32x32px]] Low || [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] || '''[[#Pain|Pain:]]''' Idealized '''[[#Charity|Charity:]]''' Essential, Important, or Worthwhile || - || '''[[#Apostasy|Apostasy:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, and Guilty '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Honorable || - || - || Symbol burning || - || [[Torture crown]] || - || - || - || -
|- id="High life"
! '''High life''' [[File:High life.png|64px]]
| Exotic states of mind are central to a good life. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || '''[[#Drug use|Drug use:]]''' Essential || Flophat: Relaxed || '''[[#Drug use|Drug use:]]''' Prohibited, Medical only, or Medical/social only || [[Ideoligion#Plants specialist|Plants specialist]] || Smokeleaf circle || Smokeleaf circle || [[Autobong]] [[Mindbend carpet]] || - || - || [[Chemical interest]] [[Chemical fascination]] || - || -
|- id="Human primacy"
! '''Human primacy''' [[File:Human primacy.png|64px]]
| Humans are the moral center of the universe. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || '''[[#Bonding|Bonding:]]''' Disapproved || - || '''[[#Slaughtering animals|Slaughtering animals:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved '''[[#Killing innocent animals|Killing innocent animals:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, and Disapproved '''[[#Mining|Mining:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved '''[[#Cutting trees|Cutting trees:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Production specialist|Production specialist]] || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Individualist"
! '''Individualist''' [[File:Individualist.png|64px]]
| Each person is a free individual with the right to their own ideas and decisions. Nobody should be made to conform. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=1|[[File:Low meme impact.png|32x32px]] Low || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] || - || - || '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Honorable || - || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Loyalist"
! '''Loyalist''' [[File:Loyalist.png|64px]]
| We stand for our own before others. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=1|[[File:Low meme impact.png|32x32px]] Low || [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || - || - || - || - || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Male supremacy"
! '''Male supremacy''' [[File:Male supremacy.png|64px]]
| Men are the superior gender and should rule. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] || - || Burka: Relaxed Veil: Strong || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || [[Misogynist]] || [[Misandrist]] || -
|- id="Nature primacy"
! '''Nature primacy''' [[File:Nature primacy.png|64px]]
| Man is a stain on nature's perfection. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || - || - || - || [[Ideoligion#Plants specialist|Plants specialist]] || || - || - || - || - || - || - || Animalist
|- id="Nudism"
! '''Nudism''' [[File:Nudism.png|64px]]
| Clothing binds, controls, and suffocates us. We should all hang free. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High || - || '''[[#Male clothing|Male clothing:]]''' Fully nude or Pants at most '''[[#Female clothing|Female clothing:]]''' Fully nude or Pants at most || - || - || - || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || [[Nudist]] || - || -
|- id="Pain is virtue"
! '''Pain is virtue''' [[File:Pain is virtue.png|64px]]
| Virtue is shown through suffering of self and others. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High || - || '''[[#Pain|Pain:]]''' Idealized '''[[#Comfort|Comfort:]]''' Ignored '''[[#Slab bed|Slab bed:]]''' Preferred || - || '''[[#Charity|Charity:]]''' Essential, Important, and Worthwhile '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Always abhorrent and Always horrible '''[[#Scarification|Scarification:]]''' Horrible '''[[#Skullspike|Skullspike:]]''' Disapproved || - || Scarification || Symbol burning || [[Slab bed]] [[Slab double bed]] || [[Torture crown]] || - || [[Ascetic]] [[Tortured artist]] [[Masochist]] || [[Wimp]] [[Gourmand]] || Morbid
|- id="Proselytizer"
! '''Proselytizer''' [[File:Proselytizer.png|64px]]
| It is our duty to spread our beliefs. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || - || '''[[#Proselytizing|Proselytizing:]]''' Occasional, Sometimes, or Frequent || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Raider"
! '''Raider''' [[File:Raider.png|64px]]
| The strong should take from the weak. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || - || '''[[#Raiding|Raiding:]]''' Respected or Required '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Horrible if innocent, Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required || - || '''[[#Skullspike|Skullspike:]]''' Disapproved '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, and Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] [[Ideoligion#Melee specialist|Melee specialist]]|| - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Rancher"
! '''Rancher''' [[File:Rancher.png|64px]]
| Raising animals is the right way; raising plants to eat is not. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || '''[[#Ranching|Ranching:]]''' Central '''[[#Meat eating|Meat eating:]]''' Mildly required, Seriously required, or Strictly required || - || - || [[Ideoligion#Animals specialist|Animals specialist]] || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Supremacist"
! '''Supremacist''' [[File:Supremacist.png|64px]]
| Our people should dominate all others. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=1|[[File:Low meme impact.png|32x32px]] Low || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Acceptable or Honorable '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Required, Respected if guilty, or Don't care || - || '''[[#Charity|Charity:]]''' Essential, Important and Worthwhile '''[[#Skullspike|Skullspike:]]''' Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] [[Ideoligion#Melee specialist|Melee specialist]] || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Transhumanist"
! '''Transhumanist''' [[File:Transhumanist.png|64px]]
| Human progress means merging with technology. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || '''[[#Sleep accelerator|Sleep accelerator:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Neural supercharge|Neural supercharge:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Biosculpting|Biosculpting:]]''' Accelerated '''[[#Age reversal|Age reversal:]]''' Demanded '''[[#Eating nutrient paste|Eating nutrient paste:]]''' Don't mind '''[[#Body modification|Body modification:]]''' Approved || Slicecap: Relaxed || '''[[#Body modification|Body modification:]]''' Abhorrent or Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Research specialist|Research specialist]] || - || - || [[Hex carpet]] [[Hex tile]] [[Neural supercharger]] [[Sleep accelerator]] || - || - || [[Body modder]] || [[Body purist]] || Techist
|- id="Tree connection"
! '''Tree connection''' [[File:Tree connection.png|64px]]
| Trees are the essence of life, and we must be near them. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High || - || '''[[#Trees|Trees:]]''' Desired '''[[#Rough living|Rough living:]]''' Welcomed '''[[#Temperature|Temperature:]]''' Tough '''[[#Gauranlen connection|Gauranlen connection:]]''' Strong
|| - || - || [[Ideoligion#Plants specialist|Plants specialist]] || - || - || - || - || [[Research#Tree sowing|Tree sowing]] || - || - || -
|- id="Tunneler"
! '''Tunneler''' [[File:Tunneler.png|64px]]
| Humans ought to live underground, and enjoy the succulent fruit of the depths. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High || - || '''[[#Fungus|Fungus:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Insect meat|Insect meat:]]''' Loved '''[[#Indoors|Indoors:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Mining yield|Mining yield:]]''' High || - || '''[[#Mining|Mining:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, or Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Mining specialist|Mining specialist]] || - || - || [[Fungal gravel]] || - || [[Research#Stonecutting|Stonecutting]] || [[Undergrounder]] || - || -
|- id="Bloodfeeding"
! '''Bloodfeeding''' {{BiotechIcon}} [[File:Bloodfeeding.png|64px]]
| Drinking blood is sacred. Bloodfeeders should be worshipped. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || - || '''[[#Bloodfeeders|Bloodfeeders:]]''' Revered '''[[#Organ use|Organ use:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Cannibalism|Cannibalism:]]''' Acceptable or Preferred '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || [[Research#Electricity|Electricity]] [[Research#Deathrest|Deathrest]] || - || - || Morbid
|- id="Ritualist"
! '''Ritualist''' {{AnomalyIcon}} [[File:Ritualist.png|64px]]
| There is a greater energy in the universe. Through ritual we can understand it and harness its power. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=2|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium || - || '''[[#Psychic rituals|Psychic rituals:]]''' Exalted '''[[#Void study|Void study:]]''' Very efficient '''[[#Research|Research:]]''' Slow, Very Slow or Extremely Slow || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || Morbid
|- id="Inhuman"
! '''Inhuman''' {{AnomalyIcon}} [[File:Inhuman.png|64px]]
| Humanity is a barrier to our connection with the machine god and its pleasurable rewards. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:High meme impact.png|32x32px]] High|| - || '''[[#Inhumanizing|Inhumanizing:]]''' Required '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Respected if guilty '''[[#Cannibalism|Cannibalism:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Corpses|Corpses:]]''' Don't care '''[[#Eating nutrient paste|Eating nutrient paste:]]''' Don't mind '''[[#Skullspike|Skullspike:]]''' Desired '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Physical love|Physical love:]]''' Free '''[[#Male clothing|Male clothing:]]''' No rules '''[[#Female clothing|Female clothing:]]''' No rules '''[[#Organ use|Organ use:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Diversity of thought|Diversity of thought:]]''' Neutral, Mild bigotry, Moderate bigotry or Intense bigotry || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Shipborn"
! '''Shipborn''' {{OdysseyIcon}} [[File:Shipborn.png|64px]]
| Humans were destined to live among the stars. ||style="text-align: center;" data-sort-value=3|[[File:Medium meme impact.png|32x32px]] Medium|| - || '''[[#Space_Habitat|Space habitat:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Indoors|Indoors:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Eating_Nutrient_Paste|Eating nutrient paste:]]''' Don't mind '''[[#Temperature|Temperature:]]''' Tough || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || [[Undergrounder|Undergrounder]] || -
|}

=== Other Faction Customization ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Meme !! Civil outlander !! Rough outlander !! Gentle tribe !! Fierce tribe !! Savage tribe !! Cannibal tribe{{IdeologyIcon}} !! Nudist tribe{{IdeologyIcon}} !! Pirate gang !! Pirate cannibal gang{{IdeologyIcon}} !! Shattered Empire{{RoyaltyIcon}} !! Ancient faction*** !! Outlander refugee group{{RoyaltyIcon}} !! Beggars & Pilgrims{{IdeologyIcon}} !! Yttakin pirates{{BiotechIcon}} !! Waster pirates{{BiotechIcon}} !! Sanguophages{{BiotechIcon}} !! Horax cult{{AnomalyIcon}}
|-
| Supremacist || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Loyalist || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Guilty || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Individualist || {{Check}}** || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Collectivist || {{Check}}** || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Transhumanist || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Flesh purity || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Raider || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Proselytizer || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| High life || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Nature primacy || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Human primacy || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Female supremacy || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Male supremacy || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Animal personhood || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Rancher || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Pain is virtue || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Darkness || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Tunneler || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Tree connection || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Nudism || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Blindsight || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Cannibal || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}}
|-
| Bloodfeeding{{BiotechIcon}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}}
|-
| Ritualist{{AnomalyIcon}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || '''Required'''
|-
| Inhuman{{AnomalyIcon}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required'''
|}
<nowiki/>* Appears on faction's options but conflicts with required meme 
<nowiki/>** Since only two memes available, one of Individualist OR Collectivist must be chosen 
<nowiki/>*** Only restricts what memes can be auto-generated and loaded from saved ideoligions, can otherwise lack or possess any memes

=== Natural goodwill with other factions ===
Additionally, Supremacist and Raider have {{Bad|-50}} with everyone, Loyalist {{Bad|-10}} with everyone, and Guilty {{Good|+10}} with everyone. There is a {{Good|+10}} bonus for having the same ideoligion.

Modifiers stack, but each pair only applies once; for example Flesh purity + Cannibal vs Flesh purity + Cannibal give {{Good|+10}} for Flesh purity/Flesh purity, {{Good|+10}} for Cannibal/Cannibal, and {{Good|+10}} for Flesh purity/Cannibal.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! !! Individualist !! Collectivist !! Transhumanist !! Flesh purity !! Proselytizer !! High life !! Nature primacy !! Human primacy !! Female supremacy !! Male supremacy !! Animal personhood !! Rancher !! Pain is virtue !! Nudism !! Cannibal
|-
! Individualist
| style="background-color:#d5d9db; color:forestgreen;"|'''+10''' || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10'''
|-
! Collectivist
| style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
! Transhumanist
| || || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || style="color:firebrick;|'''-20''' || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-20''' || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10''' || || || || || || ||
|-
! Flesh purity
| || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-20''' || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-30''' || || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10''' || || || || || || || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10'''
|-
! Proselytizer
| style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || ||style="background-color:#d5d9db" | || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
! High life
| || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-30''' || || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || || || || || || || || ||
|-
! Nature primacy
| || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-20''' || || || || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || style="color:firebrick;|'''-30''' || || || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10''' || style="color:firebrick;|'''-30''' || || ||
|-
! Human primacy
| || || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10''' || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10''' || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-30''' || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || ||
|-
! Female supremacy
| style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || || || || || || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || style="color:firebrick;|'''-30''' || || || || ||
|-
! Male supremacy
| style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || || || || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-30''' || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || || || || ||
|-
! Animal personhood
| || || || || || || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10''' || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || ||
|-
! Rancher
| || || || || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-30''' || || || || style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' ||style="background-color:#d5d9db" | || || ||
|-
! Pain is virtue
| || || || || || || || || || || || || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} || || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10'''
|-
! Nudism
| || || || || || || || || || || || || || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}} ||
|-
! Cannibal
| style="color:firebrick;|'''-10''' || || || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10''' || || || || || || || || || style="color:forestgreen;|'''+10''' || || style="background-color:#d5d9db" |{{Good|+10}}
|}

== Precepts ==
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Associated precepts have a chance to appear if a meme is present, but can still be removed if not required.

Some precepts are available to all ideologies, some require at least one of the enabling memes, and some may be unavailable if certain memes are present.

=== Present in every ideoligion ===
There are 19 issues (precept categories) that are present in every ideoligion and may not be removed. However, their level may be changed. They include "basic" precepts from the base game, used in "Play Classic".

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Issue !! Precept !! Description !! Requirement !! Associated !! Effects

|- id="Blindness"
! rowspan="4"| Blindness [[File:Blindness.png|64px]]
| Horrible || Blinding people for ideoligious reasons is horrible. || Not [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || || Colonists gain Mood: Someone got blinded: -2 unless they have the Psychopath or Bloodlust traits
|-
| Respected || To be blind is a moral thing worthy of respect. || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || Colonists gain Moods: Blind (+5), Vision Blocked (+2), or Was Blinded (+3). They also gain a +10 Opinion bonus towards blind pawns, or a -2 Opinion malus to sighted pawns.
|-
| Elevated || The blind stand pure above the sighted. || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || Moods as Respected, but Blind increases to +10 and Was Blinded to +5. Half-Blind (+1) and Not Blind (-3) are added. Opinion bonus towards blind pawns increases to +35 and malus towards sighted pawns increases to -10. Opinion bonus towards half-blind pawns is added (+10).
|-
| Sublime || Only the blind can be truly noble, for the sighted find their minds clouded by physical vision. || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || Moods as Elevated, but Blind increases to +15, Was Blinded to +6. Half-Blind drops to -1, and Not Blind to -6. Opinion bonus towards blind pawns increases to +50 and malus towards sighted pawns increases to -30.

|- id="Cannibalism"
! rowspan="7" | Cannibalism [[File:Cannibalism.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || Eating human flesh is a deeply abhorrent and disgusting act. || || || {{Thought|value=-20|stack=1|label=ate human meat|desc=I had to eat human meat. This is an offense against everything I believe.|duration=1}} -12 mood for butchering a human -5 mood for a human butchered in the colony -20 opinion for butchering a human -10 opinion for eating human meat Wearing [[stuffable]] [[apparel]] made of [[human leather]]:
* 1 item: {{Thought|desc=Wearing human leather is disturbing. Who could do this?|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME>|value=-2|stack=1}}
* 2 item: {{Thought|desc=I'm dressed like an insane person.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+1)|value=-4|stack=1}}
* 3 item: {{Thought|desc=I think there may be a face on my clothes. Oh, no... my clothes *are* a face.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+2)|value=-6|stack=1}}
* 4+ item: {{Thought|desc=I look like a freak from a horror show, and I feel like I'm in a horror show.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> etc|value=-8|stack=1}}
Disabled by: [[Psychopath]], [[Bloodlust]], and [[Cannibal (Trait)|Cannibal]] traits and the [[Inhumanized]] hediff.
|-
| Horrible || Eating human flesh is a horrible thing to do. || || || {{Thought|value=-12|stack=1|label=ate human meat|desc=I had to eat human meat. This was a horrible thing.|duration=1}} -6 mood for butchering a human -3 mood for a human butchered in the colony -10 opinion for butchering a human -5 opinion for eating human meat Wearing [[stuffable]] [[apparel]] made of [[human leather]]:
* 1 item: {{Thought|desc=Wearing human leather is wrong.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME>|value=-2|stack=1}}
* 2 item: {{Thought|desc=I feel really uncomfortable with all this human leather apparel.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+1)|value=-3|stack=1}}
* 3 item: {{Thought|desc=Why am I wearing so much human leather? This is horrible!|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+2)|value=-5|stack=1}}
* 4+ item: {{Thought|desc=I look like a freak, this is horrifying!|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> etc|value=-6|stack=1}}
Disabled by: [[Psychopath]], [[Bloodlust]], and [[Cannibal (Trait)|Cannibal]] traits and the [[Inhumanized]] hediff.
|-
| Disapproved || Eating human flesh is an ugly thing to do. || || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || {{Thought|value=-5|stack=1|label=ate human meat|desc=I had to eat human meat. I believe such actions are wrong.|duration=1}} -3 mood for butchering a human -1 mood for a human butchered in the colony -5 opinion for butchering a human -3 opinion for eating human meat Wearing [[stuffable]] [[apparel]] made of [[human leather]]:
* 1 item: {{Thought|desc=I should not be wearing human leather apparel.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME>|value=-1|stack=1}}
* 2 item: {{Thought|desc=I'm dressed in human skin. I do not like this.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+1)|value=-2|stack=1}}
* 3 item: {{Thought|desc=Why am I wearing so much human leather apparel? We should have something else to wear for me...|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+2)|value=-3|stack=1}}
* 4+ item: {{Thought|desc=I should really wear non-human leather apparel. I look like a crazy person.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> etc|value=-4|stack=1}}
Disabled by: [[Psychopath]], [[Bloodlust]], and [[Cannibal (Trait)|Cannibal]] traits and the [[Inhumanized]] hediff.
|-
| Acceptable || Human meat is just meat, like any other. || || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] ||'''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} Nullifies the following penalties for wearing [[stuffable]] [[apparel]] made of [[human leather]]:
* 1 item: {{Thought|desc=Wearing human leather is disturbing. Who could do this?|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME>|value=-2|stack=1}}
* 2 item: {{Thought|desc=I'm dressed like an insane person.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+1)|value=-4|stack=1}}
* 3 item: {{Thought|desc=I think there may be a face on my clothes. Oh, no, my clothes *are* a face.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+2)|value=-6|stack=1}}
* 4+ item: {{Thought|desc=I look like a freak from a horror show, and I feel like I'm in a horror show.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> etc|value=-8|stack=1}}
|-
| Preferred || To consume human meat is a noble and necessary part of life. || || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} {{Thought|value=+2|stack=1|label=ate human meat|desc=I ate human meat. It makes me feel noble and strong.|duration=1}} -2 mood for not eating human meat for ? days Wearing [[stuffable]] [[apparel]] made of [[human leather]]:
* 1 item: {{Thought|desc=I feel good wearing human leather apparel.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME>|value=+1|stack=1}}
* 2 item: {{Thought|desc=I enjoy wearing the skin of others.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+1)|value=+2|stack=1}}
* 3 item: {{Thought|desc=I wear the faces of my enemies. This makes me happy.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+2)|value=+3|stack=1}}
* 4+ item: {{Thought|desc=I look like a real cannibal. Who could doubt me?|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> etc|value=+4|stack=1}}
Disabled by: [[Psychopath]] and [[Bloodlust]] traits.
|-
| Required (strong) || Consuming human flesh is important. It should be in every meal. || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} -2 mood for eating food without human meat -3 opinion for eating food without human meat {{Thought|value=+4|stack=1|label=ate human meat|desc=I ate human meat, as every real human should.|duration=1}} -4 mood for not eating human meat for ? days Wearing [[stuffable]] [[apparel]] made of [[human leather]]:
* 1 item: {{Thought|desc=I enjoy wearing the faces of others.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME>|value=+2|stack=1}}
* 2 item: {{Thought|desc=This will scare them. All will know my power.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+1)|value=+3|stack=1}}
* 3 item: {{Thought|desc=The faces on my clothes aren't smiling, but they make *me* happy.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+2)|value=+5|stack=1}}
* 4+ item: {{Thought|desc=The flesh! The flesh signals my triumph!|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> etc|value=+6|stack=1}}
Disabled by: [[Psychopath]] and [[Bloodlust]] traits.
|-
| Required (ravenous) || Man-flesh is morality. To eat a meal without it is unthinkable. || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} -4 mood for eating food without human meat -5 opinion for eating food without human meat {{Thought|value=+6|stack=1|label=ate human meat|desc=I ate human meat! The world is right, and I am as I should be.|duration=1}} -8 mood for not eating human meat for ? days Wearing [[stuffable]] [[apparel]] made of [[human leather]]:
* 1 item: {{Thought|desc=I enjoy wearing the suffering of others.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME>|value=+2|stack=1}}
* 2 item: {{Thought|desc=This will scare them. All will know my power.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+1)|value=+4|stack=1}}
* 3 item: {{Thought|desc=The faces on my clothes aren't smiling, but they make *me* happy.|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> (+2)|value=+6|stack=1}}
* 4+ item: {{Thought|desc=The flesh! The flesh signals my triumph!|label=human leather <APPAREL NAME> etc|value=+8|stack=1}}
Disabled by: [[Psychopath]] and [[Bloodlust]] traits.
|- id="Corpses"
! rowspan="2" | Corpses [[File:Precept corpses.png|64px]]
| Ugly || The sight of a dead person is horrible. || || || '''Mood:''' Experiences default {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} upon seeing a [[human]] [[corpse]]. Note that this thought is nullified by the [[Bloodlust]], [[Psychopath]], and [[Cannibal (Trait)|Cannibal]] traits, as well as pro-[[#Cannibalism|Cannibalism]] precepts. Experiences default {{Thought|desc=I saw a rotting corpse laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed rotting corpse|value=-6|stack=5|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}}
|-
| Don't care || The sight of a dead person is nothing to be concerned about. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Raider|Raider]] || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] [[#Raider|Raider]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a rotting corpse laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed rotting corpse|value=-6|stack=5|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}}

|- id="Diversity of thought"
! rowspan="7" | Diversity of thought [[File:IdeoDiversity.png|64px]]
| Intense bigotry || Other beliefs are evil deceptions ruining the world. It's totally unacceptable to let them exist in the community. || || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || -3, -6, or -9 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +3 for having all colonists of the same ideology -25 opinion for different ideology -5 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -4 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +5 mood for matching style surroundings -4 mood for mismatching style surroundings -6 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
|-
| Moderate bigotry || Other beliefs are immoral delusions which do real harm. It's bad to let them exist in the community. || || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || -2, -4, or -6 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +2 for having all colonists of the same ideology -15 opinion for different ideology -4 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -2 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +4 mood for matching style surroundings -3 mood for mismatching style surroundings -4 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
|-
| Mild bigotry || Other beliefs are clearly folly. It's not good to let them exist in the community. || || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || -1, -2, or -3 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +1 for having all colonists of the same ideology -5 opinion for different ideology -3 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -1 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +3 mood for matching style surroundings -2 mood for mismatching style surroundings -3 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
|-
| Neutral || Other beliefs are neither approved or disapproved. || || || -2 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion +2 mood for matching style surroundings 0 mood for mismatching style surroundings
|-
| Appreciated || Other beliefs are worth understanding. It's good to live with others who think differently. || || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || +1, +2, or +3 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +2 mood for mismatching style surroundings
|-
| Highly appreciated || Other beliefs hold unique knowledge. It's great to live with others who think differently. || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || +2, +4, or +6 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +3 mood for mismatching style surroundings
|-
| Exalted || Working through disagreement is the height of morality. It's very moral to live with others who think differently. || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || +3, +6, or +9 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +4 mood for mismatching style surroundings

|- id="Eating nutrient paste"
! rowspan="2" | Eating Nutrient Paste [[File:EatingNutrientPaste.png|64px]]
| Disgusting || Nutrient paste is disgusting. || || || '''Mood:''' Experiences default {{Thought|desc=I had to eat a disgusting, tasteless meal. I know it keeps you alive, but nobody wants to swallow that glop.|label=ate nutrient paste meal|value=-4|stack=1|duration=1}} Note that this thought is nullified by the [[ascetic]] trait.
|-
| Don't mind || There's nothing wrong with a meal of efficient, healthy nutrient paste. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] [[#Inhuman|Inhuman]] || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:''' Prevents {{Thought|desc=I had to eat a disgusting, tasteless meal. I know it keeps you alive, but nobody wants to swallow that glop.|label=ate nutrient paste meal|value=-4|stack=1|}}

|- id="Execution"
! rowspan=6 | Execution [[File:Execution.png|64px]]
| Always abhorrent || Executing a prisoner is an abhorrent evil under any circumstances. || Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || Pawns will not execute prisoners -20 mood for 6 days for killing a prisoner -3/-4/-6/-7/-7 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest/ripscanning kill on a colonist -3/-4/-6/-7/-7 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest/ripscanning kill on a prisoner or guest -7 mood for 6 days for non-execution prisoner death -25 opinion for executing a prisoner -25 opinion for killing a prisoner{{Check Tag|Moods need verification}}
|-
| Always horrible || Executing a prisoner is a horrible thing under any circumstances. || Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] Not [[#Cannibal|cannibal]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || -15 mood for 6 days for killing or executing a prisoner -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a colonist -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a prisoner or guest -5 mood for 6 days for non-execution guilty prisoner death -15 opinion for executing a prisoner -15 opinion for killing a prisoner{{Check Tag|Moods need verification}}
|-
| Horrible if innocent || Executing an innocent prisoner is a horrible thing. If the prisoner is guilty, it's acceptable. || Not [[#Cannibal|cannibal]] || || -15 mood for 6 days for killing or executing an innocent prisoner -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a colonist -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a prisoner or guest -5 mood for 6 days for non-execution guilty prisoner death -30 opinion for executing an innocent prisoner -15 opinion for killing an innocent prisoner{{Check Tag|Moods need verification}}
|-
| Don't care || Executing prisoners is acceptable, whether they are guilty or innocent. || || ||
|-
| Respected if guilty || Executing prisoners is acceptable. If the prisoner is guilty, it is cause for great happiness. || || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || +10 mood for 6 days for executing a guilty prisoner +3 mood for 6 days for a guilty prisoner executed +20 opinion for executing a guilty prisoner
|-
| Required || Prisoners must be executed on a regular basis. When they are, it is a happy occasion. || || [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || +10 mood for 6 days for executing a prisoner +10 mood for killing a prisoner +3 mood for 2 days for prisoner or guest executed -3 mood for no executions for 30 days +15 opinion for executing a prisoner +15 opinion for killing a prisoner

|- id="Fungus"
! rowspan="2" | Fungus [[File:Fungus.png|64px]]
| Despised || That dark-grown fungus food is just disgusting || Not [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || || Ate [[raw fungus|fungus]] raw: -6 Ate fungus cooked: -3
|-
| Preferred || Fungus is the right crop to eat. Crops of the light are poisoned by the air and sun. || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || Ate [[raw fungus|fungus]]: +3 Ate cooked fungus: +3 Ate non-fungus plant raw: -5 Ate non-fungus plant cooked: -3

|- id="Insect meat"
! rowspan="2" | Insect Meat [[File:InsectMeat.png|64px]]
| Despised || Insect meat is disgusting to even look at, much less eat. Slimy! || || || -6 mood for eating insect meat -3 mood for eating cooked insect meat
|-
| Loved || There is nothing more divine than the succulent, slimy flesh of an insect || || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || Gives a +6 moodlet when pawns eat meals with insect meat as an ingredient, duration 1 day.

|- id="Marriage name"
! rowspan="6" | Marriage Name [[File:MarriageName.png|64px]]
| Always Man's || Couples must share the man's name. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] || Couples always take man's name
|-
| Usually Man's || Most couples share the man's name || || || As random, but 95% to not consider taking woman's name and 75% to not consider keeping names
|-
| Random || Couples randomly choose whether to share a name, and which name to share. || || || Couples randomly select between taking man's, woman's, or keeping names
|-
| Keep Names || Both partners keep their names upon marriage. || Not [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || || Couples always keep their names
|-
| Usually Woman's || Most couples share the woman's name || || || As random, but 95% to not consider taking man's name and 75% to not consider keeping names
|-
| Always Woman's || Couples must share the woman's name. || || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] || Couples always take woman's name

|- id="Female clothing"
! rowspan=7 | Female Clothing [[File:Nudity Female.png|64px]]
| Fully nude || Women must be entirely nude at all times. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable. || || [[#Male supremacy|Male supremacy]] [[#Nudism|Nudism]] || -4 mood when wearing any clothing and for 0.5 days after removing it -5 opinion for wearing clothes
|-
| Pants at most || Women should cover their groin, but may not cover anything else. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable. || || [[#Nudism|Nudism]] || -4 mood when wearing any clothing except pants and for 0.5 days after removing it -4 mood for not covering groin -5 opinion for wearing clothes other than pants -10 opinion for uncovered groin
|-
| No rules || A woman may display or cover any part of her body. || || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] ||
|-
| Pants || Women must cover their groin. The rest of the body may be covered, or not. || || || -4 mood for not covering groin -10 opinion for uncovered groin
|-
| Pants and shirt || Women must cover their groin and chest. The rest of the body may be covered, or not. || || || -4 mood for not covering groin or chest -10 opinion for uncovered groin or chest
|-
| Pants, shirt, and hat || Women must cover their entire body and hair. The face may be covered, or not. || || [[#Male supremacy|Male supremacy]] || -4 mood for not covering groin, chest, or hair -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, or hair
|-
| Fully covered || Women must cover their entire body, including their hair and face. || || [[#Male supremacy|Male supremacy]] || -4 mood for not covering groin, chest, hair, or face -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, hair, or face

|- id="Male clothing"
! rowspan=7 | Male Clothing [[File:Nudity Male.png|64px]]
| Fully nude || Men must be entirely nude at all times. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable. || || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] [[#Nudism|Nudism]] || -4 mood when wearing any clothing and for 0.5 days after removing it -5 opinion for wearing clothes
|-
| Pants at most || Men should cover their groin, but may not cover anything else. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable. || || [[#Nudism|Nudism]] || -4 mood when wearing any clothing except pants and for 0.5 days after removing it -4 mood for not covering groin -5 opinion for wearing clothes other than pants -10 opinion for uncovered groin
|-
| No rules || A man may display or cover any part of his body. || || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] ||
|-
| Pants || Men must cover their groin. The rest of the body may be covered, or not. || || || -4 mood for not covering groin -10 opinion for uncovered groin
|-
| Pants and shirt || Men must cover their groin and chest. The rest of the body may be covered, or not. || || || -4 mood for not covering groin or chest -10 opinion for uncovered groin or chest
|-
| Pants, shirt, and hat || Men must cover their entire body and hair. The face may be covered, or not. || || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] || -4 mood for not covering groin, chest, or hair -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, or hair
|-
| Fully covered || Men must cover their entire body, including their hair and face. || || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] || -4 mood for not covering groin, chest, hair, or face -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, hair, or face

|- id="Organ use"
! rowspan=4 | Organ use [[File:OrganUse.png|64px]]
| Totally abhorrent || Any harvesting, trading, or installing natural organs is an abhorrent evil. || || Flesh purity || -30 mood for harvesting someone's organ -10 mood for organ harvested in the colony -30 mood for trading an organ -5 mood for organ traded in the colony -30 mood for installing an organ -4 mood for organ installed in the colony -30 opinion for harvesting an organ -30 opinion for trading an organ -15 opinion for installing an organ
|-
| No harvest or sell || Harvesting organs is a horrible thing. Selling any natural organ is pretty bad too. However, it's okay to buy and install them. || || Flesh purity || -15 mood for harvesting someone's organ -5 mood for organ harvested in the colony -8 mood for selling an organ -2 mood for organ sold in the colony -20 opinion for harvesting an organ -10 opinion for selling an organ
|-
| No harvest || Harvesting organs is a horrible thing. However, it's okay to buy, install, or sell them. || || Cannibal Raider Collectivist || -15 mood for harvesting someone's organ -5 mood for organ harvested in the colony -20 opinion for harvesting an organ
|-
| Acceptable || It's okay to harvest, buy, install, or sell organs. || || Cannibal Raider Collectivist ||

|- id="Physical love"
! rowspan="7" | Physical Love [[File:PhysicalLove.png|64px]]
| Free || Physical intimacy is a natural part of life, with any partner, married or not. || || Individualist
|-
| Prohibited || The physical act of lust is always vile, disgusting, and wrong. || || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || Pawns will not share beds -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' -20 opinion for lovin'
|-
| Horrible || The physical act of lust is vile, though within marriage it is necessary. || || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -20 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse -5 mood for 1 day for lovin' with spouse -5 opinion for lovin' with spouse
|-
| Spouse only (strict) || To make love with another outside of marriage is deeply immoral. || || || Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -20 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
|-
| Spouse only (moderate) || To make love with another outside of marriage is wrong. || || || Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -15 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -10 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
|-
| Spouse only (mild) || Though it's understandable to make love with another outside of marriage, it's not a good thing. || || || Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -5 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -5 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
|-
| Free and approved || The physical act of love is a noble thing, no matter who does it with whom. || Not [[#Flesh purity|flesh purity]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || +5 opinion for loving'

|- id="Research"
! rowspan="7"| Research [[File:Research.png|64px]]
| Not allowed || To research technology is an immoral act. It is not to be done. || || || '''Prohibition:''' Pawns are unwilling to research.
|-
| Extremely slow || Research isn't a worthwhile activity at all. Why try hard at it? || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Bad|x0.25}}
|-
| Very slow || Research work is unworthy of serious respect. Better not to be seen trying hard at it. || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Bad|x0.50}}
|-
| Slow || Research work just isn't particularly meaningful. Why try hard at it? || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Bad|x0.75}}
|-
| Normal || Research is a worthwhile form of work that the community needs. || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: '''×1.00'''
|-
| Fast || Research is an especially virtuous activity. || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Good|x1.25}}
|-
| Very fast || Research is among the most meaningful acts a person can perform. || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Good|x1.50}}

|- id="Scarification"
! rowspan="4"| Scarification [[File:Scarification.png|64px]]
| Extreme || Every person ought to bear the ritual scars - all over. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || || +6 mood for getting scarified +3 mood for having 5 scars -3 mood for having fewer than 5 scars +10 opinion for having 5 scars -5 opinion for having 1-4 scars -10 opinion for having no scars
|-
| Heavy || Every person ought to bear the ritual scars - many of them. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || || +5 mood for getting scarified +2 mood for having 3 scars -2 mood for having fewer than 3 scars +5 opinion for having 3 scars -3 opinion for having 1-2 scars -5 opinion for having no scars
|-
| Minor || Every person ought to bear a ritual scar. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || || +3 mood for getting scarified +1 mood for having a scar -1 mood for having no scars +3 opinion for having a scar -3 opinion for having no scars
|-
| Horrible || Scarifying people for ideoligious reasons is horrible. || Not [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || || -2 mood for scarification ceremony in the colony

|- id="Skullspike"
! rowspan="2" | Skullspike [[File:Precept skullspike.png|64px]]
| Desired || A skull on a spike symbolizes our superiority. || || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Raider|Raider]] || Adds a mood increase of {{+|1}} for 1-3 [[Skullspike|skullspikes]], {{+|2}} for 4-8 skullspikes, and {{+|3}} for 9+ skullspikes. Mood effects negated by the [[Masochist]] trait.
|-
| Disapproved || Putting skulls on spikes is a barbaric practice. || Not [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] Not [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] Not [[#Raider|Raider]] || || Adds a mood malus of {{--|1}} for 1-3 [[Skullspike|skullspikes]], {{--|2}} for 4-8 skullspikes, and {{--|3}} for 9+ skullspikes. Mood effects negated by the [[Masochist]] trait.

|- id="Slavery"
! rowspan="5" | Slavery [[File:Slavery.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || Owning or trading human beings is deeply evil. || Not [[#Raider|raider]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''Prohibitions:''' Pawns will not sell pawns into [[slavery]] Pawns will not enslave [[prisoners]] '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We solve{{sic}} someone into slavery. It was an abhorrent, barbaric act.|label=slave sold|value=-10|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=We're keeping slaves. It's barbaric.|label=slaves in colony|value=-3}}, per slave. Does not apply to quest lodgers. '''Opinion:''' {{--|20}} for selling a pawn into slavery {{--|20}} opinion for enslaving a pawn
|-
| Horrible || Owning or trading human beings is a horrible thing. || Not [[#Raider|raider]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We're keeping slaves. It's wrong.|label=slaves in colony|value=-2}}, per [[slave]]. Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=I sold a person into slavery. I'm not sure I can forgive myself.|label=sold slave|value=-10|stack=1|duration=6}} {{Thought|desc=I forced someone into slavery. How can I justify that?|label=enslaved prisoner|value=-10|stack=1|duration=6}} (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) {{Thought|desc=We sold someone into slavery. What a horrible thing to do.|label=slave sold|value=-3|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=We enslaved someone. What a horrible thing to do to another human.|label=prisoner enslaved|value=-3|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. '''Opinion:''' {{--|10}} for selling a pawn into slavery {{--|10}} opinion for enslaving a pawn
|-
| Disapproved || Slavery is part of life, though it is extremely distasteful. || Not [[#Raider|raider]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We're keeping slaves. Even if it's necessary, it's distasteful and I wish we wouldn't.|label=slaves in colony|value=-1}}, per [[slave]]. Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=I sold a person into slavery. I hope nothing terrible happens to them.|label=sold slave|value=-5|stack=1|duration=6}} {{Thought|desc=I enslaved a person. It's hard to justify such actions.|label=enslaved prisoner|value=-5|stack=1|duration=6}} (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) {{Thought|desc=We sold a person into slavery. We shouldn't have done that.|label=slave sold|value=-2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=We enslaved someone. We shouldn't have done that.|label=prisoner enslaved|value=-2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. '''Opinion:''' {{--|5}} for selling a pawn into slavery {{--|5}} opinion for enslaving a pawn
|-
| Acceptable || Slavery is a normal, unremarkable part of life. || || || ''No mood or opinion effects for enslaving, buying, or selling slaves.'' Faction will accept slaves when being traded with.
|-
| Honorable || One who owns and trades slaves should be honored and respected. || Not [[#Guilty|guilty]] Not [[#Individualist|individualist]] || [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We've got slaves. It means we're on the right path.|label=slaves in colony|value=+1}}, per [[slave]] {{Thought|desc=Without slaves, nobody will respect us.|label=no slaves in colony|value=-2|stack=1}}, if Low [[expectations]] or higher {{Thought|desc=I sold someone into slavery. It'll make people notice my stature.|label=sold slave|value=+4|stack=1|duration=6}} {{Thought|desc=I took someone into slavery. With no choice, they had to submit to me.|label=enslaved prisoner|value=+4|stack=1|duration=6}} (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) {{Thought|desc=We sold someone into slavery! A great display of our honor and power.|label=slave sold|value=+2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide) {{Thought|desc=We enslaved someone. Now they know our honor and power!|label=prisoner enslaved|value=+2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide) '''Opinion:''' {{+|10}} for selling a pawn into slavery {{+|10}} opinion for enslaving a pawn Faction will accept slaves when being traded with.
|- id="Women's spouses"
! rowspan=5 | Women's spouses [[File:SpouseCountFemale.png|64px]]
| One only || Women may have one spouse only. || || ||
|-
| Two or fewer || Women may have up to two spouses. || || [[#Female Supremacy|Female supremacy]] ||
|-
| Three or fewer || Women may have up to three spouses. || || [[#Female Supremacy|Female supremacy]] ||
|-
| Four or fewer || Women may have up to four spouses. || || [[#Female Supremacy|Female supremacy]] ||
|-
| Unlimited || Women may have as many spouses as they like. || || [[#Female Supremacy|Female supremacy]] ||

|- id="Men's spouses"
! rowspan=5 | Men's spouses [[File:SpouseCountMale.png|64px]]
| One only || Men may have one spouse only. || || ||
|-
| Two or fewer || Men may have up to two spouses. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] ||
|-
| Three or fewer || Men may have up to three spouses. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] ||
|-
| Four or fewer || Men may have up to four spouses. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] ||
|-
| Unlimited || Men may have as many spouses as they like. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] ||
|}

=== Optional ===
These precepts can be added through memes or by player choice.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Issue !! Precept !! Description !! Requirement !! Associated !! Effects
|- id="Slaughtering animals"
! rowspan="3"| Slaughtering animals [[File:AnimalSlaughter.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Slaughtering animals is absolutely prohibited. || || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Nature Primacy|Nature primacy]] || '''Prohibitions:''' Slaughter animal '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=Someone slaughtered an animal! A tragic loss of a unique life.|label=animal slaughtered|value=-4|duration=6|stacks=5|multi=0.75}}
'''Opinions:''' Slaughtered animal: {{Bad|-10}}
|-
| Horrible || To slaughter an animal is a horrible thing. || || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Nature Primacy|Nature primacy]] || '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=I had to slaughter an animal! It was horrible to snuff out a mind like that.|label=slaughtered animal|value=-15|duration=6|stacks=1}}
* {{Thought|desc=Someone slaughtered an animal! What a horrible thing, to snuff out a mind like that.|label=animal slaughtered|value=-2|duration=6|stacks=5|multi=0.75}}
'''Opinions:''' Slaughtered animal: {{Bad|-5}}
|-
| Disapproved || To slaughter an animal is an ugly thing. || || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Nature Primacy|Nature primacy]] || '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=I had to slaughter an animal. It was an ugly thing to do.|label=slaughtered animal|value=-5|duration=6|stacks=1}}
* {{Thought|desc=Someone slaughtered an animal. It's a sad thing.|label=animal slaughtered|value=-1|duration=6|stacks=5|multi=0.75}}
'''Opinions:''' Slaughtered animal: {{Bad|-3}}
|- id="Apostasy"
! rowspan="3"| Apostasy [[File:Apostasy.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || To leave our ideoligion after having known it is the depth of immorality. || Not [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Opinions:''' 
*Changed ideoligion: {{Bad|-30}} 
*Apostate: {{Bad|-10}} 
'''Stats:'''
* [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]]: {{Good|×40%}}
|-
| Horrible || To leave our ideoligion after having known it indicates deep moral flaws. || Not [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Opinions:''' 
*Changed ideoligion: {{bad|-15}} 
*Apostate: {{Bad|-5}} 
'''Stats:'''
* [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]]: {{Good|×60%}}
|-
| Disapproved || To leave our ideoligion after having known it indicates character flaws. || Not [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Opinions:''' 
*Changed ideoligion: {{Bad|-8}} 
*Apostate: {{Bad|-3}} 
'''Stats:'''
* [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]]: {{Good|×80%}}
|- id="Autonomous weapons"
! rowspan="3"| Autonomous weapons [[File:AutonomousWeapons.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Allowing a machine to decide to kill is an absolutely inhuman thing to do. || || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Cannot build Turrets Colonists gain Mood: {{Thought|desc=We use automated weapons. It's absolutely abhorrent to give life-and-death decisions to a machine.|label=automated weapons|value=-12|stack=1}}
|-
| Horrible || Allowing a machine to decide to kill is a terrible thing. || || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Colonists gain Mood: {{Thought|desc=We use automated weapons. It's horrible to give life-and-death decisions to a machine.|label=automated weapons|value=-8|stack=1}}
|-
| Disapproved || Allowing a machine to decide to kill is an ugly thing. || || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Colonists gain Mood: {{Thought|desc=We use automated weapons. It's really ugly to give life-and-death decision to a machine.|label=automated weapons|value=-4|stack=1}}
|- id="Body modification"
! rowspan="3"| Body modification [[File:BodyModifications.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || To modify the natural human body is a flagrant violation of clear moral laws. || Not [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || '''Mood''':
* {{Thought|desc=I had to install an artificial body enhancement. This was deeply offensive to my beliefs.|label=installed enhancement|value=-30|duration=6}}
* {{Thought|desc=I have an artificial body enhancement. It's an abhorrent offense against everything I believe!|label=artificial enhancement|value=-18|duration=6}}
'''Opinion:''' {{Bad|-10}} against anyone that installed a prosthetic or artificial part, {{Bad|-5}} against anyone with a prosthetic or artificial part. 
These do not apply if the pawn is not a Body Modder. Xenogenes trigger this mood penalty if they are not inheritable.
|-
| Disapproved || To modify the natural human body is an ugly, dirty act. || Not [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || '''Mood''':
* {{Thought|desc=I had to install an artificial body enhancement. This was clearly against my beliefs.|label=installed enhancement|value=-5|duration=6}}
* {{Thought|desc=I have an artificial body enhancement. I don't believe such things are acceptable.|label=artificial enhancement|value=-4|duration=6}}
'''Opinion:''' {{Bad|-5}} against anyone that installed a prosthetic or artificial part, {{Bad|-3}} against anyone with a prosthetic or artificial part. 
These do not apply if the pawn is not a Body Modder. Xenogenes trigger this mood penalty if they are not inheritable.
|-
| Approved || Humans should strive to reach our full potential by improving our flawed natural bodies. || Not [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=I don't have any artificial body enhancements. It's against my beliefs to be so unenhanced.|label=no artificial enhancement|value=-3|stack=1}} at or above moderate expectations, nullified by Body purist.
* {{Thought|desc=This artificial enhancement matches my belief.|label=transhumanist modded|value=1|stack=1}} for 1 artificial part.
* {{Thought|desc=The more artificial enhancements I get, the stronger my expression of my beliefs.|label=transhumanist connected|value=1|stack=1}} for 2 artificial part.
* {{Thought|desc=My connection to my belief is increased by my third artificial enhancement. But I could use more.|label=transhumanist enhanced|value=2|stack=1}} for 3 artificial part.
* {{Thought|desc=Only two more artificial enhancements are required to fully synchronize with my beliefs.|label=transhumanist synchronized|value=2|stack=1}} for 4 artificial part.
* {{Thought|desc=Five artificial enhancements! I'm beginning to feel perfect integration with my beliefs.|label=transhumanist integrated|value=3|stack=1}} for 5 artificial part.
* {{Thought|desc=It's as though I've left the weak flesh behind.|label=transhumanist transformed|value=3|stack=1}} for 5+ artificial part.
All bonus disabled for Body Modder. 
{{Bad|-3}} opinion for zero artificial parts if expectations ≥ Moderate (disabled for Body Purist) {{Check Tag|Xenogenes?|Xenogens count as artificial for body modder/purist traits, do they also count for ideo?}}
|- id="Charity"
! rowspan=3| Charity [[File:Charity.png|64px]]
| Essential || We must always be charitable to those in need. To refuse one would be an inhuman act, no matter the circumstances. || Not [[#Supremacist|supremacist]] Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || -8 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest">Charity quest is one marked as such in the quest log, and includes: beggars, relic pilgrims, joining wanderer, crashing shuttle, pod crash refugee, refugees, chased noble, and joining wanderer in danger</ref> -12 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +4 mood for helping on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/>
|-
| Important || It's important to be charitable to those in need. Refusing to help is a terrible act. || Not [[#Supremacist|supremacist]] Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || -4 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/> -8 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +2 mood for helping on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/>
|-
| Worthwhile || Helping those in need is a good thing. It makes the community stronger. || Not [[#Supremacist|supremacist]] Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || -2 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/> -6 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +1 mood for helping on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/>
|- id="Drug use"
! rowspan=4| Drug use [[File:DrugUse.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || The body should absolutely not be poisoned by chemicals. The only exception is the use of medicine in direct medical care. || Not [[#High life|High life]] || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || Pawns are unwilling to take or administer drugs 
* {{Thought|desc=I used a drug. Such chemicals in the body are a horrible offense against my beliefs.|label=used drug|value=-4|duration=3}}
* {{Thought|desc=I administered a drug. It was a horrible offense against my beliefs.|label=administered drug|value=-15|duration=3}}<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Drug use">As pawns with this precept are unwilling to administer drugs, this won't appear on normal gameplay.</ref>
{{Bad|-3}} opinion for consuming or administering a drug, for 5 days. 
None of the above applies to pawns with [[Traits#Chemical fascination|Chemical fascination]] or [[Traits#Chemical interest|Chemical interest]]
|-
| Medical only || Poisoning the body for recreational purposes is a deeply immoral act. || Not [[#High life|High life]] || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || Pawns are unwilling to take or administer recreational drugs. 
* {{Thought|desc=I used a recreational drug. It was an offense against my beliefs.|label=used recreational drug|value=-15|duration=3}}
* {{Thought|desc=I administered a recreational drug. It was a horrible offense against my beliefs.|label=administered recreational drug|value=-15|duration=3}}
{{Bad|-5}} opinion for consuming or administering a recreational drug, for 5 days. 
None of the above applies to pawns with [[Traits#Chemical fascination|Chemical fascination]] or [[Traits#Chemical interest|Chemical interest]]
|-
| Medical or social only || A drink with a smoke is fine, especially with friends, but poisoning the body with powerful chemicals is wrong. || Not [[#High life|High life]] || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || Pawns are unwilling to take or administer hard drugs.
* {{Thought|desc=I used a hard drug - not medical or even social. It was a horrible offense against my beliefs.|label=used hard drug|value=-15|duration=3}}
* {{Thought|desc=I administered a hard drug - not medical or even social. It was a horrible offense against my beliefs.|label=used hard drug|value=-15|duration=3}}
{{Bad|-8}} opinion for consuming or administering a hard drug, for 5 days. 
None of the above applies to pawns with [[Traits#Chemical fascination|Chemical fascination]] or [[Traits#Chemical interest|Chemical interest]]
|-
| Essential || Exotic states of mind are central to a good life. || [[#High life|High life]] || [[#High life|High life]]
| '''Stats:'''
* [[Drug Crop Harvest Yield]]: {{Good|×150%}}
* [[Drug Synthesis Speed]]: {{Good|×150%}}
* [[Drug Sell Price Improvement]]: {{+|10%}}
'''Moods''' (excludes [[Teetotaler]]s):
* {{Thought|desc=The right path goes through altered consciousness, and I am walking it.|label=high life|value=3|duration=0.75|stack=1}}
* {{Thought|desc=This is a hidden state.|label=high life|value=0|duration=0.25|stack=1}}. An invisible state.
* {{Thought|desc=I should be altering my consciousness. It's not right to be sober so long.|label=high life missing|value=-1|duration=1|stack=1}}
* {{Thought|desc=I should be altering my consciousness. It's not right to be sober so long.|label=high life missing|value=-10|duration=9|stack=1}}
The moods above are scaled linearly based on the time since last non-medical drug ingested. First a {{Good|+3}} mood that last 0.75 days, decaying to 0 over the course the following 0.25 days. At 2 days since last consumption, first mood penalty applies. This penalty will increase by {{Bad|-1}} each day without further consumption, reaching the maximum of {{Bad|-10}} at 11 days.
|- id="Combat in darkness"
! Combat in darkness [[File:DarknessCombat.png|64px]]
| Preferred || We fight better in the dark. || Not [[#Blindsight|blindsight]] || [[#Darkness|Darkness]]
| '''Stats:'''
* [[Shooting Accuracy]]:
** [[Shooting Accuracy Outdoors Dark|Outdoors Dark]] and [[Shooting Accuracy Indoors Dark|Indoors Dark]]: {{+|25%}}
** [[Shooting Accuracy Outdoors Lit|Outdoors Lit]] and [[Shooting Accuracy Indoors Lit|Indoors Lit]]: {{--|20%}}
* [[Melee Dodge Chance]]:
** [[Melee Dodge Chance Outdoors Night|Outdoors Night]] and [[Melee Dodge Chance Indoors Dark|Indoors Dark]]: {{+|10%}}
** [[Melee Dodge Chance Outdoors Day|Outdoors Day]] and [[Melee Dodge Chance Indoors Lit|Indoors Lit]]: {{--|10%}}
* [[Melee Hit Chance]]:
** [[Melee Hit Chance Outdoors Dark|Outdoors Dark]] and [[Melee Hit Chance Indoors Dark|Indoors Dark]]: {{+|10%}}
** [[Melee Hit Chance Outdoors Lit|Outdoors Lit]] and [[Melee Hit Chance Indoors Lit|Indoors Lit]]: {{--|10%}}
|- id="Cutting trees"
! rowspan=3 | Cutting trees [[File:Precept tree cutting.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || To violate the forest by cutting down a tree is a deeply abhorrent act and should never be done. || Not [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables logging camps. Pawns will not cut trees {{Thought|desc=We cut down a tree. Such things violations of nature should never be done.|label=tree felled|value=-4|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=3}} for cutting a tree {{Thought|desc=We extracted a tree from the ground and then let it die. Such things violations of nature should never be done.|label=extracted tree died|value=-4|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=3}} for an uprooted tree dying {{--|10}} opinion for cutting a tree
|-
| Horrible || To cut down a tree is a horrible act. || Not [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables logging camps. {{Thought|desc=I had to cut down a tree. It was wrong to scar nature this way.|label=tree felled|value=-10|stack=1|duration=3}} for cutting a tree {{Thought|desc=We cut down a tree. It's wrong to scar nature this way.|label=tree felled|value=-2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=3}} for a tree cut {{Thought|desc=We extracted a tree from the ground and let it die. It's wrong to scar nature this way.|label=extracted tree died|value=-2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=3}} for an uprooted tree dying {{--|5}} opinion for cutting a tree
|-
| Disapproved || To cut down a tree is a distasteful thing to do. || Not [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables logging camps. {{Thought|desc=I had to cut down a tree. It was wrong to scar nature this way.|label=tree felled|value=-5|stack=1|duration=3}} for cutting a tree {{Thought|desc=We cut down a tree. It wasn't good to harm nature this way.|label=tree felled|value=-1|stack=5|duration=3}} for a tree cut {{Thought|desc=We extracted a tree from the ground and let it die. It wasn't good to harm nature this way.|label=extracted tree died|value=-1|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=3}} for an uprooted tree dying {{--|3}} opinion for cutting a tree
|- id="Killing innocent animals"
! rowspan="3" | Killing innocent animals [[File:KillingInnocentAnimals.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || To kill an innocent animal is a horrifically inhuman act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation.<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Innocent animal">An animal is deemed innocent if: It isn't under a mental state, or the mental state was caused by damage (ex: Manhunter, PanicFlee) or psycast (ex: Berserk, Neuroquake psycast). The above excludes animals belonging to hostile factions, animals hunting humans (or animals belonging to a human faction), and animals with scaria.</ref> || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || Disables hunting camps Pawns will not attack innocent animals {{Thought|desc=An innocent, adorable animal was killed! That's murder!|label=innocent animal killed|value=-4|stack=5|mult=0.75|duration=6}} if innocent animal is killed {{--|15}} opinion for killing innocent animal
|-
| Horrible || To kill an innocent animal is a horrible act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || Disables hunting camps {{Thought|desc=I had to kill an innocent animal. It was almost like being forced to murder.|label=killed innocent {0}|value=-15|duration=6}} for killing an innocent animal {{Thought|desc=An innocent animal was killed. What a terrible, heartless act against another being.|label=innocent animal killed|value=-2|stack=5|mult=0.75|duration=6}} if innocent animal is killed {{--|10}} opinion for killing innocent animal
|-
| Disapproved || To kill an innocent animal is an ugly act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || Disables hunting camps {{Thought|desc=I had to kill an innocent animal. It was not something I approve of.|label=killed innocent {0}|value=-5|duration=6}} for killing an innocent animal {{Thought|desc=An innocent animal was killed. I do not approve of this.|label=innocent animal killed|value=-1|stack=5|mult=0.75|duration=6}} if innocent animal is killed {{--|5}} opinion for killing innocent animal

|- id="Lighting"
! Lighting [[File:Lighting.png|64px]]
| Darklight preferred || Normal lights are too bright. Darklights are better. || Not [[#Blindsight|blindsight]] || [[#Darkness|Darkness]] || {{Thought|desc=This dim light is perfect. I feel focused and energized.|label=darklight|value=+4|stack=1}} with [[Darklight]] {{Thought|desc=This indoor light is too bright. I would prefer something dimmer.|label=indoor light|value=-4|stack=1}} in dim light (30% - 89% [[light]]){{Check Tag|Verify|Verify bounds match normal definition}} {{Thought|desc=I cannot stand this terrible light. My senses are overwhelmed!|label=blinding light|value=-8|stack=1}} in bright light. (90% - 100% [[light]]){{Check Tag|Verify|Verify bounds match normal definition}} No modifier for Darkness. (0% - 29% [[light]]){{Check Tag|Verify|Verify bounds match normal definition}} Surgery penalty without Darklight. Disables low-[[light]] [[move speed]] penalties Disables low-[[light]] [[global work speed]] penalties
|- id="Meat eating"
! rowspan=6 | Meat eating [[File:MeatEating.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || Eating meat of any kind is deeply evil. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables hunting camps {{Thought|desc=I had to eat meat. It was an abhorrent violation of everything I believe.|label=ate meat|value=-24|duration=1|stack=1}} for eating meat {{--|15}} opinion for eating meat
|-
| Horrible || Eating meat of any kind is a horrible act. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables hunting camps {{Thought|desc=I had to eat meat. It was a horrible violation of my beliefs.|label=ate meat|value=-12|duration=1|stack=1}} for eating meat {{--|10}} opinion for eating meat
|-
| Disapproved || Eating meat of any kind should be avoided. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables hunting camps {{Thought|desc=I had to eat meat. It's not something I approve of.|label=ate meat|value=-4|duration=1|stack=1}} for eating meat {{--|5}} opinion for eating meat
|-
| Mildly required || Every meal ought to have meat. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] (but conflicts) [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables farming camps {{Thought|desc=I ate a meal without any meat. It was an unacceptable deviation from the proper carnivore diet. Some eggs, milk, or processed food without vegetables or would have also been okay.|label=ate vegetarian|value=-4|duration=1|stack=1}} for eating food without meat {{--|5}} opinion for eating food without meat
|-
| Seriously required || Every meal must have meat. Eggs, milk, and processed food are okay as well. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] (but conflicts) [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables farming camps {{Thought|desc=I ate a meal without any meat. It was an horrible violation of the proper carnivore diet. Some eggs, milk, or processed food without vegetables would have also been okay.|label=ate vegetarian|value=-10|duration=1|stack=1}} for eating food without meat {{--|10}} opinion for eating food without meat
|-
| Strictly required || If a meal doesn't have meat, the person who eats it must be morally deficient. Eggs, milk, and processed foods are fine. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] (but conflicts) [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables farming camps {{Thought|desc=I ate a meal without any meat. It was an abhorrent violation of the proper carnivore diet. Some eggs, milk, or processed food without vegetables would have also been okay.|label=ate vegetarian|value=-16|duration=1|stack=1}} for eating food without meat {{--|15}} opinion for eating food without meat

|- id="Mining"
! rowspan=3 | Mining [[File:Mining.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Raping the natural earth with mining tools is a horrifically evil act. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] Not [[#Tunneler|tunneler]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables mining camps Pawns will not mine 
* {{Thought|desc=We mined a hole in the pure earth. What a terrible offense against nature.|label=mined|value=-4|duration=2|stacks=5|multi=0.75}}
* {{Thought|desc=I destroyed a natural wall. What a terrible offense against nature.|label=destroyed natural wall|value=-40|duration=2|stacks=1}}
{{Bad|-15}} opinion for mining a block, for 4 days.
|-
| Horrible || Violating the natural earth with mining tools is a horrible act. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] Not [[#Tunneler|tunneler]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables mining camps 
* {{Thought|desc=I had to mine a hole. It was an offense against the earth.|label=mined|value=-20|duration=2|stacks=1}}
* {{Thought|desc=Someone mined a hole in the pure earth. It was a horrible violation of nature.|label=mined|value=-2|duration=2|stacks=5|multi=0.75}}
* {{Thought|desc=I destroyed a natural wall. It was a horrible violation of nature.|label=destroyed natural wall|value=-20|duration=2|stacks=1}}
{{Bad|-10}} opinion for mining a block, for 2 days.
|-
| Disapproved || Mining into the natural earth is an ugly act. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] Not [[#Tunneler|tunneler]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables mining camps 
* {{Thought|desc=I had to mine a hole. I disapprove of harming the earth this way.|label=mined|value=-3|duration=2|stacks=1}}
* {{Thought|desc=Someone mined a hole in the pure earth. It's wrong to scar the world this way.|label=mined|value=-1|duration=2|stacks=5|multi=0.75}}
* {{Thought|desc=I destroyed a natural wall. It's wrong to scar the world this way.|label=destroyed natural wall|value=-3|duration=2|stacks=1}}
{{Bad|-5}} opinion for mining a block, for 2 days.
|- id="Raiding"
! rowspan=2 | Raiding [[File:Raiding.png|64px]]
| Respected || We don't work like common laborers, we take from the weak as the strong should. Failing to do so is a mark of shame. || || || '''Mood:''' {{+|3}} mood for 5 days for participating in a raid {{+|6}} mood for a raid less than 25 days ago {{--|6}} mood for a raid more than 25 days ago 
'''Stats:'''
* [[Global Work Speed]] {{--|8%}}
|-
| Required || We don't work like common laborers, we take from the weak as the strong should. Failing to do so is a tremendous shame. || || || '''Mood:''' {{+|6}} mood for 5 days for participating in a raid {{+|12}} mood for a raid less than 25 days ago {{--|12}} mood for a raid more than 25 days ago 
'''Stats:'''
* [[Global Work Speed]] {{--|16%}}
|- id="Trees"
! Trees [[File:Trees.png|64px]]
| Desired || It's essential to live surrounded by beautiful trees. || || [[#Tree connection|Tree connection]] || Gives a thought, scaling from -5 to +9 for having (or not having) many trees on the map Gives a thought, scaling from 0 to -20 for the number of trees chopped in the last quadrum
|- id="Biosculpting"
! rowspan="2" | Biosculpting [[File:Precept biosculpting.png|64px]]
| Despised || Biosculpter pods violate the purity human flesh and should never be used. || Not [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=My body was despoiled by the use of a biosculpter pod.|label=used biosculpter pod|value=-8|stack=1|duration=12}} after using [[biosculpter pod]].
|-
| Accelerated || All biosculpting cycles take half the usual time. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || All biosculpting cycles take half the usual time.
|- id="Growth vats"
! rowspan="2"| Growth vats{{BiotechIcon}} [[File:GrowthVats.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Growth vats rob children of their childhood. || || || '''Prohibitions:''' Build [[growth vat]] '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=I hate the thought of that awful growth vat being in our colony.|label=growth vat|value=-3|stack=1}} 
* {{Thought|desc=I can't stand the thought of my child floating in that awful machine.|label=my child is in a growth vat|value=-3|stack=3}}. Nullifying trait: [[Psychopath]] 
* {{Thought|desc=I'm happy to see my kids be kids. Their childhood is too precious to be wasted in a vat.|label=Child not in growth vat|value=1|stack=1}} 
|-
| Essential || We have the technology for safer childbirth and faster childhoods. Believers will develop faster in growth vats but will be unhappy if their children are not in a vat. || || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=Childbirth is a terrifying thought. We should have vats to safely grow our children.|label=natural pregnancy|value=-5|stack=1}}. Minimum [[expectations]]: Moderate
* {{Thought|desc=I don't feel safe with my child running around. They should be growing safely in a vat.|label=Child not in growth vat|value=-2|stack=3}}. Minimum [[expectations]]: Moderate 
'''Stats:'''
* {{BiotechIcon}} [[Growth Vat Occupant Speed]]: {{Good|×130%}} (only to pawns with the ideoligion; [[embryo]]s / [[babies]] are not boosted)
|- id="Bloodfeeders"
! rowspan="2"| Bloodfeeders{{BiotechIcon}} [[File:Bloodfeeders.png|64px]]
| Revered || Bloodfeeders should be worshipped. Believers will be happy if there is a bloodfeeder in the colony and will not mind being fed upon. || || || '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=The bloodfeeders stand above us, yet one has died here. We will surely be punished for this.|label=bloodfeeder died|value=-2|stack=3|duration=10}} (Colony wide) when a bloodfeeder dies.{{Check Tag|Any faction?|Does the bloodfeeder have to be of the player faction? Any allied faction? Any faction at all including enemies?}}.
* {{Thought|desc=Let them worship me. Feeding upon them places them below me, as animals are below humans.|label=revered bloodfeeder|value=+4|stack=1}} for being a bloodfeeder.
* {{Thought|desc=Without a bloodfeeder master, our colony feels incomplete and pointless. We should make a bloodfeeder our leader.|label=no bloodfeeders|value=-2|stack=1}} (Colony wide) for having no bloodfeeders in the colony.
* {{Thought|desc=Without a bloodfeeder master, our colony feels incomplete and pointless. We should make a bloodfeeder our leader.|label=no bloodfeeder master|value=-1|stack=1}} (Colony wide) for having bloodfeeders in the colony, but not as the [[#Leaders|leader]].
* {{Thought|desc=The bloodfeeder's presence is a great honor. May they live forever.|label=bloodfeeder master|value=+2|stack=1}} (Colony wide) for having A bloodfeeder as the [[#Leaders|leader]].
Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I was violated by a bloodfeeder like some kind of livestock.|label=fed on by <NAME>|value=-5|stack=1|duration=5}}{{Check Tag|Stacking?|Check if it stacks, change stack var as appropriate}} '''Opinions:''' {{+|20}} for being a Bloodfeeder
|-
| Reviled || Anyone who drinks blood to survive is a monster. || || || '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=The only good bloodfeeder is a dead one.|label=bloodfeeder died|value=+5|stack=3|duration=10}} (Colony wide) when a bloodfeeder dies.
* {{Thought|desc=I am what I hate. I must rid myself of this curse.|label=bloodfeeder self hatred|value=-12|stack=1}} for being a bloodfeeder.
* {{Thought|desc=One of them walks among us. We should expel the bloodfeeder from our home.|label=bloodfeeder among us|value=-8|stack=1}} (Colony wide) for having a bloodfeeder in the colony.
'''Opinions:''' {{--|40}} for being a Bloodfeeder
|- id="Child labor"
! rowspan="2"| Child labor{{BiotechIcon}} [[File:ChildLabor.png|64px]]
| Encouraged || Children build character through work. It's important for everyone to contribute.|| || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=Why are we letting children waste their youth on games?|label=children assigned recreation|value=-3|stack=1}}. Adults only. 
'''Stats:'''
* [[Global Work Speed]]: {{+|20%}} ([[Children]] only)
|-
| Disapproved || Childhood is sacred. We should let kids be kids. || || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''Mood:'''
* {{Thought|desc=It's upsetting to see children forced to work. They only get one childhood.|label=children assigned work|value=-3|stack=1}}. Adults only. Note: This refers to the Schedule tab. Children can have jobs assigned in their Work tab without mood penalty. 
'''Stats:'''
* [[Learning Rate Factor]]: {{+|20%}} ([[Children]] only)
|- id="Mechanoid labor"
! Mechanoid labor{{BiotechIcon}} [[File:MechanoidLabor.png|64px]]
| Enhanced || Why should we work when we have machines? || ||
| '''Stats:'''
* [[Global Work Speed]]: {{--|8%}}
* {{BiotechIcon}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]]: {{+|20%}}
|- id="Psychic rituals"
! rowspan=3| Psychic rituals{{AnomalyIcon}} [[File:PsychicRituals.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || Psychic rituals are utterly evil. || || || '''Prohibitions:''' Participate in psychic ritual '''Mood:''' Psychic ritual performed: {{--|4}} Involved in psychic ritual: {{--|12}} '''Opinions:''' Involved in psychic ritual: {{--|20}}
|-
| Disapproved || Psychic rituals should be avoided when possible. || || ||| '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We shouldn't be using such dark powers. It's just not right.|label=Psychic ritual performed|value=-2|stack=1}} {{Thought|desc=That ritual was wrong. I should not have been there.|label=Involved in psychic ritual|value=-6|stack=1}} '''Opinions:''' Involved in psychic ritual: {{--|10}} '''Stats:'''
* [[Psychic Ritual Quality Offset]]: {{--|10%}}
|-
| Exalted || Connecting with psychic flows brings us closer to truth. || || [[#Ritualist|Ritualist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=It was an amazing experience to truly connect with something greater than myself.|label=Involved in psychic ritual|value=+3|stack=1}}. {{Thought|desc=Failing to use these rituals shows everyone how misguided we are.|label=No psychic ritual for 6 days (Min expectations: High)|value=-3|stack=1}}. '''Opinions:''' Involved in psychic ritual: {{+|10}} '''Stats:'''
* [[Psychic Ritual Quality Offset]]: {{+|10%}}
|- id="Void study"
! rowspan=4| Void study{{AnomalyIcon}} [[File:VoidStudy.png|64px]]
| Very inefficient || All this void nonsense is superstition. Let's focus on reality. || ||
| '''Stats:'''
* [[Study Efficiency]]: {{Bad|×50%}}
|-
| Inefficient || Trying to understand the unknowable is pointless. We should focus more on meaningful activities. || ||
| '''Stats:'''
* [[Study Efficiency]]: {{Bad|×75%}}
|-
| Efficient || The void is a true mystery that deserves to be studied. || ||
| '''Stats:'''
* [[Study Efficiency]]: {{Good|×125%}}
|-
| Very efficient || The void is the ultimate truth. || || [[#Ritualist|Ritualist]]
| '''Stats:'''
* [[Study Efficiency]]: {{Good|×150%}}
|-
|- id="Inhumanizing"
! Inhumanizing{{AnomalyIcon}} [[File:Inhumanizing.png|64px]]
| Required || Human morality and feeling are a distraction. We must leave humanity behind. Mental breaks will cause followers to become [[inhumanized]]. || || [[#Inhuman|Inhuman]] || '''Mood:'''
*{{Thought|desc=I'm ashamed of my humanity. I want to embrace the void but I fear it.|label=Human shame|value=-8|stack=1}} if not inhumanized.
'''Mental breaks:'''
* [[Mental_break#Humanity_break|Humanity break]]
|-

|- id="Fishing"
! rowspan=3 | Fishing{{OdysseyIcon}} [[File:Fishing.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Fishing is immoral. We should never do it. || || [[#Animal Personhood|Animal Personhood]] || '''Prohibitions:''':
*[[Fishing]]
'''Mood''':
*{{Thought|desc=Someone is killing fish! Our slippery brothers and sisters are dying.|label=Someone slaughtered fish|value=-4|stack=1|duration=6}}.
{{--|10}} opinion for slaughtering fish
|-

|-
| Disapproved || Fishing is gruesome. We should avoid it. || || [[#Animal Personhood|Animal Personhood]] || '''Mood''':
*{{Thought|desc=I had to kill fish. It was an ugly thing to do.|label=Slaughtered fish|value=-4|stack=1|duration=6}}.
*{{Thought|desc=Someone is killing fish! We should protect these beautiful creatures.|label=Someone slaughtered fish|value=-2|stack=1|duration=6}}.
'''Stats''':
*[[Fishing speed]]: {{--|25%}}
*[[Fishing yield]]: {{--|10%}}
{{--|5}} opinion for slaughtering fish
|-

|-
| Sacred || Fishing is part of the right path. || || || '''Mood''':
*{{Thought|desc=I wish we were somewhere we could fish.|label=Not enough fish|value=-4|stack=1}}.
*{{Thought|desc=Fishing puts me on the right path - at least for a little while.|label=Fished recently|value=+2|stack=1|duration=1}}.
'''Stats''':
*[[Fishing yield]]: {{Good|+10%}}
|-

|}
<references group="Optional precepts"/>

=== Meme-specific ===
These issues and their precepts can only be added by having a specific meme, and cannot be removed as long as the meme is present.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Issue !! Precept !! Description !! Meme !! Effects

|- id="Age reversal"
! Age reversal [[File:AgeReversal.png|64px]]
| Demanded || Why get old? One must have a once-yearly age reversal treatment in the biosculpter pod. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=I'm getting old. I should get an age reversal in a biosculpter pod.|label=harmful aging|value=-4|stack=1}}, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year. {{Thought|desc=My youth is draining away. I should get an age reversal in a biosculpter pod.|label=terrible aging|value=-7|stack=1}}, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year and 15 days. {{Thought|desc=I am trapped in a decaying prison of flesh! I need to get an age reversal in a biosculpter pod.|label=horrific aging|value=-10|stack=1}}, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year and 30 days. {{Thought|desc=Aging and death have no hold on me. I am forever, as an enhanced human ought to be.|label=received age reversal|value=+3|stack=1|duration=4}} after age reversal. '''Notes:'''
*Initial colonists, newly generated pawns (due to events, quests, raids, etc.), as well as pawns after changing map due to Archonexus quest have a 20 to 40 day grace period before they start demanding age reversal (it will replace their age reversal demanded date, even if it would come after that period).
*Whenever a pawn's faction or ideology change they'll get a 15-20 day grace period before they start demanding age reversal (unless their next age reversal demanded date will come after that period).

|- id="Animal connection"
! Animal connection [[File:Precept animal connection.png|64px]]
| Strong || We have a strong connection to our animal friends || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] ||
* 2x [[Tame Animal Chance]]
* 2x Animal Bonding Chance

|- id="Blind psysense"
! Blind psysense [[File:BlindPsysense.png|64px]]
| Strong|| Our blind have special ways of connecting with the psychic aether || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || '''Stats:''' [[Psychic Sensitivity]]: {{+|30%}} for [[Sight|blind]] pawns.

|- id="Bonding"
! Bonding [[File:Bonding.png|64px]]
| Disapproved || To emotionally bond with a lower being is a shameful act || [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || Disables [[Animals#Bonding|animal bonding]] event for pawns with ideology. Does '''not''' disable pre-existing bonds or disable their [[thoughts]].

|- id="Comfort"
! Comfort [[File:Comfort.png|64px]]
| Ignored || We should pay no attention to comfort || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain Is Virtue]] || Disables [[comfort]] need, and comfort-related thoughts, both positive and negative

|- id="Eclipse"
! Eclipse [[File:Precept Eclipse.png|64px]]
| Beautiful || Eclipses are a beautiful respite from the blinding sunlight. || [[#Darkness|Darkness]] ''unless'' [[#Blindsight|blindsight]] || {{+|5}} mood for seeing an [[eclipse]]

|- id="Gauranlen connection"
! Gauranlen connection [[File:GauranlenConnection.png|64px]]
| Strong || We have a special connection with the Gauranlen trees. The trees refocus production easily under our influence, and we are not satisfied unless we have that connection. || [[#Tree connection|Tree connection]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=I am happily connected to a Gauranlen tree.|label=Gauranlen connection|value=+3|stack=1}} when connected to [[Gauranlen tree]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-0|stack=1}}, at Very Low [[expectations]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-1|stack=1}}, at Low [[expectations]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-2|stack=1}}, at Moderate [[expectations]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-4|stack=1}}, at High [[expectations]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-6|stack=1}}, at Sky High [[expectations]]. '''Stats:''' [[Pruning speed]]: {{+|25%}}

|- id="Mining yield"
! Mining yield [[File:MiningYield.png|64px]]
| High || Mining is so important that we do it with great focus and respect, and we get more resources because of that. || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || '''Stats:''' [[Mining yield]]: {{+|10%}}

|- id="Neural supercharge"
! Neural supercharge [[File:NeuralSupercharger.png|64px]]
| Preferred || Having a neural supercharge is the new standard. Without it, you're obsolete. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=Without a neural supercharge, I'm running below my true capacity. It's depressing.|label=want neural supercharge|value=-6|stack=1}} whenever 2+{{Check Tag|Verify time|Is it two days?}} days have passed since [[Neural supercharger|neural supercharging]], assuming Moderate [[expectations]] or higher.

|- id="Pain"
! Pain [[File:Pain.png|64px]]
| Idealized || To experience nerve-singing pain is a mark of morality. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=The pain grounds me. I appreciate it|label=minor pain|value=+3|stack=1}}, [[pain]] between 1% and 14% inclusive. Replaces default {{--|5}} {{Thought|desc=The pain cleanses me. I like it.|label=serious pain|value=+5|stack=1}}, [[pain]] between 15% and 39% inclusive. Replaces default {{--|10}} {{Thought|desc=The pain purifies me. I need it!|label=intense pain|value=+7|stack=1}}, [[pain]] between 40% and 79% inclusive. Replaces default {{--|15}} {{Thought|desc=The pain makes me sublime! I wish to become it!|label=mind-shattering pain|value=+9|stack=1}}, [[pain]] of 80%+. Replaces default {{--|20}} '''Note:''' These thoughts are replaced by the [[Masochist]] specific thoughts for pawns with that trait, and with the default values for [[Wimp]]s.

|- id="Proselytizing"
! rowspan=3 | Proselytizing [[File:Proselytizing.png|64px]]
| Occasional || Those who know the truth should try to bring it to others, when it seems appropriate. || [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Stats:''' Social chat [[conversion]] attempt frequency: '''×300''' '''Development points:''' {{+|1}} each pawn converted to the ideoligion.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|5}} for a successful [[relic]] hunt.{{Check Tag|Final Quest only?|Is this only given when the relic is actually acquired?}}{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|2}} for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}}
|-
| Sometimes || Those who know the truth should bring it to others at every opportunity. || [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Stats:''' Social chat [[conversion]] attempt frequency: '''×500''' '''Development points:''' {{+|1}} each pawn converted to the ideoligion.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|5}} for a successful [[relic]] hunt.{{Check Tag|Final Quest only?|Is this only given when the relic is actually acquired?}}{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|2}} for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}}
|-
| Frequent || Those who know the truth have a duty to always spread it and drive out other beliefs. || [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Stats:''' Social chat [[conversion]] attempt frequency: '''×700''' '''Development points:''' {{+|1}} each pawn converted to the ideoligion.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|5}} for a successful [[relic]] hunt.{{Check Tag|Final Quest only?|Is this only given when the relic is actually acquired?}}{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|2}} for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}}

|- id="Ranching"
! Ranching [[File:Ranching.png|64px]]
| Central || We must raise and consume many large animals, and we must not eat plants. || [[#Rancher|Rancher]] || '''Stats:''' [[Plant Work Speed]]: {{Bad|x70%}} [[Tame Animal Chance]]: {{Good|x120%}} [[Animal Gather Yield]]: {{Good|x120%}} [[Butchery Efficiency]]: {{Good|x120%}} [[Animals Learning Factor]]: {{Good|x200%}}. [[Animal Products Price Improvement]]: {{+|10%}}.{{Check Tag|Mechanics?|How does this apply in the order of operations}} Affects [[meat]], [[leather]] and [[wool]] of all types, including [[Human]]. [[Eggs]], [[milk]], [[insect jelly]], and live [[animals]] are not affected. '''Mood:''' {{--|3}}/{{--|2}}/{{--|1}}/{{+|1}}/{{+|2}}/{{+|3}} [[mood]] based on total animal body size per colonist,{{Check Tag|What ratios?|What ratio is each cut off?}}{{Check Tag|Colonist only?|Wb slaves, prisoners, quest guests etc? What about colonists without this precept?}} if Low [[expectations]] or higher. Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=I sowed a human food plant. It was wrong - humans should eat animals, and animals should eat nature-made plants.|label=sowed human food plant|value=-4|duration=2}} if Low [[expectations]] or higher.{{Check Tag|Which plants?}}{{Check Tag|Sow only?|Can you harvest plants without issue?}} Does not apply to quest lodgers. '''Development points:''' {{+|2}} for each successful [[Quests#Hospitality|Animal hospitality]] quest.{{RoyaltyIcon}}

|- id="Rough living"
! Rough living [[File:RoughLiving.png|64px]]
| Welcomed || We don't need to separate ourselves from the roughness of nature. || [[#Tree connection|Tree connection]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain Is Virtue]] || Nullifies:
*{{Thought|desc=I had to eat a meal off the ground. Can't we get a table around here?|label=Ate without table|value=-3|stack=1|duration=1}}
*{{Thought|desc=I had to sleep outdoors without any protection from the elements.|label=slept outside|value=-4|stack=1|duration=1}}
*{{Thought|desc=I had to sleep on the ground like an animal.|label=slept on ground|value=-4|stack=1|duration=1}}
*{{Thought|desc=I'm soaking wet.|label=soaking wet|value=-3|stack=1|duration=0.1}}

|- id="Slab bed"
! Slab bed [[File:Precept Slab Bed.png|64px]]
| Preferred || The right way to sleep is on a slab bed. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || Makes colonists prefer slab beds, and gives a +2 thought when they sleep in slab beds.

|- id="Sleep accelerator"
! Sleep accelerator [[File:Precept sleep accelerator.png|64px]]
| Preferred || One should always use a sleep accelerator. Slow-sleeping is just foolishly wasting your potential. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || +3 mood for 1 day when using [[sleep accelerator]]

|- id="Indoors"
! Indoors [[File:SmallSpaces.png|64px]]
| Preferred || We were meant to live indoors. There's nothing bothersome about being in tight quarters. || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] [[#Shipborn|Shipborn]]{{OdysseyIcon}} ||
*Adds needs: [[Needs#Indoors|Indoors]]
*Removes needs: [[Needs#Outdoors|Outdoors]]

|- id="Temperature"
! Temperature [[File:Precept temperature.png|64px]]
| Tough || Extreme temperatures don't bother us as much. || [[#Tree connection|Tree connection]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Shipborn|Shipborn]]{{OdysseyIcon}} || Nullifies:
*{{Thought|desc=I had to sleep in the cold. We really need some heaters.|label=slept in the cold|value=-4|stack=1|duration=1}}
*{{Thought|desc=I had to sleep in unbearable heat. Can't we have air conditioning?|label=slept in the heat|value=-4|stack=1|duration=1}}
'''Note''': It doesn't appear to affect comfortable temperatures or the related [[hypothermia]]/[[heatstroke]] tolerances. It is only referenced for the above moodlets

|- id="Work drive"
! Work drive [[File:Precept work drive.png|64px]]
| Tripled ||The duration of the leader's work drive ability is tripled. || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || 3x Work Drive Duration (from 3 days to 9 days)

|- id="Space habitat"
! Space Habitat{{OdysseyIcon}} [[File:Precept space habitat.png|64px]]
| Preferred || Planetary living is for lower animals. We should live in orbit or among the stars. || [[#Shipborn|Shipborn]] || '''Mood''':
*{{Thought|desc=I'll never feel at home here in the dirt. We should be in space.|label=Planetary habitat|value=-2|stack=1}}
*{{Thought|desc=It feels good to be where I belong. I can't stand being down there in the dirt.|label=Space habitat|value=4|stack=1}}
|}

== Roles ==
{{Main|Roles}}
Roles are positions available to pawns that grant them both special benefits and drawbacks. Every ideoligion has at least two roles: [[Leader]] and [[Moral guide]]. There can be only 1 '''leader''' globally, and 1 '''moral guide''' per ideoligion.

<div style="display:inline-table; padding: 0.5em;">
{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign:top}}
!Name !! colspan=5 | Abilities
|- id="Leader"
! [[Leader]] [[File: Leader.png|link=Leader]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Combat command]] [[File:CombatCommand.png|link=Combat command|64px]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Work drive]] [[File:WorkDrive.png|link=Work drive|64px]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Leader speech]] [[File:LeaderSpeech.png|link=Leader speech|64px]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Trial]] [[File:Trial.png|link=Trial|64px]]
|-
|- id="Moral guide"
! [[Moral guide]] [[File: MoralGuide.png|link=Moral guide]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Roles#Convert|Convert]] [[File:Convert.png|link=Roles#Convert|64px]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Counsel]] [[File:Counsel.png|link=Counsel|64px]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Reassure]] [[File:Reassure.png|link=Reassure|64px]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Conversion ritual]] [[File:ConversionRitual.png|link=Conversion ritual|64px]]
| style="text-align:center" | [[Preach health]] [[File:PreachHealth.png|link=Preach health|64px]]
|}
</div>

Additionally, each ideoligion grants up to 2 types of [[specialist]]s; a role that grants large bonuses and abilities related to a specific field in exchange of inability of doing one or more types of work. This limitation only applies to the type of specialization, not the total number of specialists.

<div style="display:inline-table; padding: 0.5em;">
{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign:top}}
!Name !! Required Memes !! Disabled Work Types !! Abilities
|- id="Shooting specialist"
! [[Shooting specialist]] [[File: SpecialistShooting.png|link=Shooting specialist]]
|
* [[Ideoligion#Raider|Raider]]
* [[Ideoligion#Supremacist|Supremacist]]
|
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
* Constructing
| style="text-align:center" |[[Marksman command]] [[File:MarksmanCommand.png|link=Marksman command|64px]]
|- id="Animals specialist"
! [[Animals specialist]] [[File: SpecialistAnimals.png|link=Animals specialist]]
|
* [[Ideoligion#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]]
* [[Ideoligion#Rancher|Rancher]]
|
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
* Constructing
| style="text-align:center" |[[Animal calm]] [[File:AnimalCalm.png|link=Animal calm|64px]]
|- id="Medical specialist"
! Medical Specialist [[File: SpecialistMedical.png|link=Medical specialist]]
|
* [[Ideoligion#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]]
* [[Ideoligion#Blindsight|Blindsight]]
|
* Violent
| style="text-align:center" |[[Immunity drive]] [[File:ImmunityDrive.png|link=Immunity drive|64px]]
|- id="Melee specialist"
! Melee Specialist [[File: SpecialistMelee.png|link=Melee specialist]]
|
* [[Ideoligion#Raider|Raider]]
* [[Ideoligion#Supremacist|Supremacist]]
|
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
* Constructing
* Hunting
* Shooting
| style="text-align:center" |[[Berserk trance]] [[File:BerserkTrance.png|link=Berserk trance|64px]]
|}
</div>

<div style="display:inline-table; padding: 0.5em;">
{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign:top}}
!Name !! Required Memes !! Disabled Work Types !! Abilities
|- id="Mining specialist"
! [[Mining specialist]] [[File: SpecialistMining.png|link=Mining specialist]]
|
* [[Ideoligion#Darkness|Darkness]]
* [[Ideoligion#Tunneler|Tunneler]]
|
* Animals
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Constructing
| style="text-align:center" |[[Mining command]] [[File:MiningCommand.png|link=Mining command|64px]]
|- id="Plants specialist"
! [[Plants specialist]] [[File: SpecialistPlants.png|link=Plants specialist]]
|
* [[Ideoligion#High life|High life]]
* [[Ideoligion#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]]
* [[Ideoligion#Tree connection|Tree connection]]
|
* Animals
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Constructing
* Mining
| style="text-align:center" |[[Farming command]] [[File:FarmingCommand.png|link=Farming command|64px]]
|- id="Production specialist"
! [[Production specialist]] [[File: SpecialistProduction.png|link=Production specialist]]
|
* [[Ideoligion#Human primacy|Human primacy]]
|
* Dumb labor
* Animals
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
| style="text-align:center" |[[Production command]] [[File:ProductionCommand.png|link=Production command|64px]]
|- id="Research specialist"
! [[Research specialist]] [[File: SpecialistResearch.png|link=Research specialist]]
|
* [[Ideoligion#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]]
|
* Dumb labor
* Animals
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
| style="text-align:center" |[[Research command]] [[File:ResearchCommand.png|link=Research command|64px]]
|}
</div>

== Rituals ==
{{Main|Rituals}}

{{Ritual table}}

== Relics ==
{{Main|Relic}}
Relics are objects revered by your ideoligion that require a series of quests in order to be obtained. These are always of legendary quality, when applicable. Relics grant various boni, both when found and when present in rituals, some of which require being placed in a [[Reliquary]]. A relic being lost causes a malus of {{Thought|desc=The relic has been lost! A travesty!|label=relic lost|value=-5|stack=5|duration=30}} while a relic being destroyed causes a malus of {{Thought|desc=The relic was destroyed! A travesty!|label=relic destroyed|value=-5|stack=5|duration=30}}.

When placed in a Reliquary, pilgrims of your ideoligion will visit your colony to pay reverence to the relic.

== Buildings ==
Ideoligions can add special buildings that are required for either rituals or as statues of that ideologion.

=== Ritual seat ===
Ideologions can have a maximum of 1 type of ritual seat.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[File:Kneel_pillow.png|32px]]
| [[Kneel_pillow|Kneel pillow]]
|-
! [[File:Kneel_sheet.png|32px]]
| [[Kneel_sheet|Kneel sheet]]
|-
! [[File:Pew.png|32px]]
| [[Pew]]
|}

=== Building ===
Ideologions can have a maximum of 5 types of ideologion-related buildings.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Image !! Name !! Type !! Minimum expectations !! Room requirements !! Note
|-
! [[File:Ideogram_morbid_b.png|32px]]
| [[Ideogram]] || Altar / Ideogram || Moderate || All floored No beds allowed No work facilities allowed ||! rowspan="5" | You can only have one Altar / Ideogram at the same time.
|-
! [[File:Small_altar.png|32px]]
| [[Small_altar|Small altar]] || Altar / Ideogram || Moderate || Room impressiveness 60 All floored No beds allowed No work facilities allowed
|-
! [[File:Medium_altar.png|32px]]
| [[Medium_altar|Medium altar]] || Altar / Ideogram || Moderate || Room impressiveness 60 No beds allowed No work facilities allowed
|-
! [[File:Large_altar.png|32px]]
| [[Large_altar|Large altar]] || Altar / Ideogram || Moderate || Room area: 25 tiles No beds allowed No work facilities allowed
|-
! [[File:Grand_altar.png|32px]]
| [[Grand_altar|Grand altar]] || Altar / Ideogram || Moderate || All floored Room area: 25 tiles No beds allowed No work facilities allowed
|-
! [[File:Christmas_tree.png|32px]]
| [[Christmas_tree|Christmas tree]] || Christmas tree || N/A || N/A || N/A
|-
! [[File:Sacrificial_flag.png|32px]]
| [[Sacrificial_flag|Sacrificial flag]] || Sacrificial flag || Moderate || All floored No beds allowed No work facilities allowed || N/A
|-
| colspan="6" | Ideologions can add statue-like buildings that are required when there are 3 or more pawns of the ideoligion in your faction and their expectations reach moderate or higher. These buildings can be placed in the same room. Placing the buildings in a room which doesn't meet the requirements will give a "[building name] disrespected" negative moodlet to all pawns of the ideologion.
|-
! [[File:Sculpture_small_totemic_a.png|32px]]
| [[Small_sculpture|Small sculpture]] || Statue || High || Room impressiveness 60 Column x4 No beds allowed No work facilities allowed || Small sculpture as a named ideologion building is a variation of the regular small sculpture. Its [[Small_sculpture#Styles|appearance]] depends on the Origin or the Style that the ideologion has.
|-
! [[File:Sculpture_large_totemic_a.png|32px]]
| [[Large_sculpture|Large sculpture]] || Statue || High || All floored No beds allowed No work facilities allowed || Large sculpture as a named ideologion building is a variation of the regular large sculpture. Its [[Large_sculpture#Styles|appearance]] depends on the Origin or the Style that the ideologion has.
|-
! [[File:Sculpture_grand_totemic_a.png|32px]]
| [[Grand_sculpture|Grand sculpture]] || Statue || Moderate || Room area: 25 tiles All floored No beds allowed No work facilities allowed || Grand sculpture as a named ideologion building is a variation of the regular grand sculpture. Its [[Grand_sculpture#Styles|appearance]] depends on the Origin or the Style that the ideologion has.
|}

== Weapon preferences ==
Ideoligion can have one or several pairs of noble and despised weapons types. Weapon pairs can't be combined if they overlap.

Wielding a noble weapon grants +3 mood while wielding a despised one grants -5.

Killing any pawn{{Check Tag|Verify}} with a noble weapon grants +3 mood for 1 day{{Check Tag|Thought Template|Convert to thought template}} while using a despised one to attack anything - including objects - grants -5 for 2 days.{{Check Tag|Thought Template|Convert to thought template}}

{| class="wikitable"
! Pair !! First group !! Second group
|-
| Melee / Ranged || All melee weapons, including beer and wood || All ranged weapons, including grenades
|-
| Melee piercer / Melee blunt || [[Thrumbo horn]], [[Elephant tusk]], [[Breach axe]], [[Gladius]], [[Longsword]], [[Knife]], [[Ikwa]], [[Spear]], [[Persona monosword]], [[Monosword]], [[Plasmasword]], [[Persona plasmasword]] || [[Beer]], [[Wood]], [[Mace]], [[Club]], [[Persona zeushammer]], [[Axe]], [[Warhammer]], [[Zeushammer]], [[Eltex staff]]
|-
| Long shots / Short shots || [[Bolt-action rifle]], [[Sniper rifle]] || [[Machine pistol]], [[Pump shotgun]], [[Chain shotgun]], [[Heavy SMG]]
|-
| Ranged heavy / Ranged light || [[Incendiary launcher]], [[Smoke launcher]], [[EMP launcher]], [[Heavy SMG]], [[LMG]], [[Sniper rifle]], [[Minigun]], [[Triple rocket launcher]], [[Greatbow]], [[Charge lance]] || [[Revolver]], [[Autopistol]], [[Machine pistol]], [[Short bow]], [[Recurve bow]], [[Charge rifle]]
|-
| Neolithic / Ultratech || [[Wood]], [[Club]], [[Knife]], [[Ikwa]], [[Spear]], [[Short bow]], [[Pila]], [[Recurve bow]], [[Greatbow]] || [[Persona monosword]], [[Persona zeushammer]], [[Persona plasmasword]], [[Monosword]], [[Zeushammer]], [[Plasmasword]], [[Eltex staff]]
|}

== Apparel preferences ==
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=== Apparel type combinations ===
Some kinds of [[apparel]] can be set as desired apparel.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Apparel type !! Name
|-
| [[Apparel#Headgear|Headgear]] || [[Authority_cap|Authority cap]], [[Beret]], [[Bowler_hat|Bowler hat]], [[Broadwrap]], [[Ceremonial_hood|Ceremonial hood]], [[Cowboy_hat|Cowboy hat]], [[Face_mask|Face mask]], [[Flophat]], [[Headwrap]], [[Hood]], [[Ritual_mask|Ritual mask]], [[Shadecone]], [[Slicecap]], [[Tailcap]], [[Torture_crown|Torture crown]], [[Tribal_headdress|Tribal headdress]], [[Tuque]], [[Veil]], [[Visage_mask|Visage mask]], [[War_mask|War mask]]
|-
| [[Apparel#Eyes|Eyes]] || [[Blindfold]]
|-
| [[Apparel#Skin|Skin]] || [[Button-down_shirt|Button-down shirt]]
|-
| [[Apparel#Outer|Outer]] || [[Burka]], [[Robe]]
|}
The player can set any of these pieces to be desired for men, women, or both, and can choose between a relaxed and strong desire. Multiple kinds (a maximum of 8 {{Check Tag|Verify?|Verify what's the limit?}}) of apparel can be chosen. You can select both a relaxed and a strong desire for the same gender / apparel type combination, for example, a female relaxed headgear and a female strong headgear. Note that selecting the same apparel type and preference twice will result in a conflict, for example, if you select a female: strong cowboy hat and an everyone: strong hood. To maximize the number of available desired apparel:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Apparel type !! Gender / Preference combination
|-
| [[Apparel#Headgear|Headgear]] || Female: relaxed Female: strong Male: relaxed Male: strong
|-
| [[Apparel#Eyes|Eyes]] || [[Blindfold]]
|-
| [[Apparel#Skin|Skin]] || [[Button-down_shirt|Button-down shirt]]
|-
| [[Apparel#Outer|Outer]] || Everyone: relaxed Everyone: strong
|}

=== Mood effects ===

Wearing a desired apparel or a certain color has mood effect on the pawn.

==== Desired apparel ====

Pawns that are wearing all of their desired apparel will gain a small mood bonus of {{+|1}} for a relaxed desire, and {{+|2}} for a strong desire. There is no difference in the mood bonus for having multiple pieces of desired apparel in the ideology, the bonus is only for wearing all of their desired apparel. Unlike role-specific apparel, there is no mood penalty for not wearing desired apparel.

==== Color mood effect ====

Ideoligions have an ideoligion color. Pawns gain a gain a {{+|1}} mood buff if more than 60% of a colonist's apparel is their favorite color or the color of their ideoligion. If their favorite color and their ideoligion's color are the same, they will gain both mood buffs for a total of {{+|2}}. For a full list of valid apparel color options, see the [[Dye]] page.

The color of the ideoligion can be set at generation, while a pawn's favorite color is determined when the pawn is generated.{{Check Tag|Children?|Confirm when children gain a favorite color}} Apparel can be dyed at the [[styling station]] for one [[dye]] per piece of apparel. Note that unlike with preferred apparel, outside of the [[Man in Black]] event, pawns will not necessarily spawn wearing color that matches their ideoligion or preferred colors.

=== Spawning ===

Pawns that have an ideologion with desired apparel may spawn wearing it. The criteria for this are not fully understood, but pawnkinds that do not spawn with apparel that occupies the coverage and layer of the item preferred by the ideoligion appear to always spawn with the item. If the pawnkind does have conflicting apparel that may, or is required to, spawn, then a portion of those pawnkinds will spawn with the apparel. This can lead to knock-on effects, such as some Empire [[Empire#Cataphract|Cataphracts]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} spawning with hats in place of their [[cataphract helmet|helmets]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} making them weaker in combat. Note that this also applies to colonist spawns, including at game start. In any case, it is unknown if this is limited by the apparel value limits imposed on some pawnkinds.

== Xenotype preferences ==
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Believers consider this xenotype to hold a higher moral or spiritual status than others. They will be happy if their colony has only preferred xenotypes. However, having any preferred xenotypes means that all other xenotypes are considered disliked and believers will be unhappy living alongside them.

Up to three [[Xenotypes]] can be selected as preferred xenotypes, including baseliner and a custom xenotype. If at least one is selected then a positive mood will be generated if every colonist is a preferred type, but a negative scaling mood if even one colonist is not a preferred type.

Believers will not accept becoming a non-preferred xenotype via reimplant ability or [[xenogerm]]s. If [[Sanguophage]] is not a preferred type and at least one other preferred type is set, colonists will refuse Sanguophage xenogerm implantation and quests that award Sanguophage xenogerm will fail to give the reward.{{Check Tag|Fail?|Will not offer that as a reward? Will generate as a reward but not give it? Will not generate the quest? Will not generate the option that would be to receive the xenogerm? Will replace it with something else?}}

Opinion:
* Preferred xenotype: {{+|10}}
* Disliked xenotype: {{--|30}}

Mood:
* All preferred xenotype: {{+|2}}
* Some disliked xenotypes: {{--|2}}
* Many disliked xenotypes: {{--|3}}
* Tons of disliked xenotypes: {{--|4}}
* I am disliked xenotype<: {{--|6}}

== Venerated animals ==
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{{Quote|This animal is considered by believers to hold a special spiritual or moral status, which means it must be venerated and may never be harmed.|Description}}
An ideoligion can have up to 18 venerated [[animal]]s.

Colonists will not hunt or attack venerated animals with ranged weapons (but will attack them in melee), unless the animal is in manhunter mood. They will not slaughter tame venerated animals.

Colonists will butcher venerated animals without any issue, but will refuse to eat their [[meat]] or any meal made with it (including meals stacked together), even when starving. They can be manually ordered to eat such food, but will get -8 mood for 5 days. If a colonist that venerates an animal is unconscious, other colonists (of any ideoligion) will not feed them such food, and '''cannot''' be manually ordered to do so. Colonists take no issue using [[leather]], [[wool]], [[milk]], or [[eggs]] of the venerated animal.

Colonists will get -5 mood for 5 days if a tame venerated animal dies for any reason. Releasing tame animals is fine.

Colonists will get a positive thought for the amount of tame venerated animals in the colony, depending on their total body size divided by the total number of colonists: +2 for 1 or more, +3 for 2 or more, +4 for 4 or more, and +5 for 6 or more. In case of multiple venerated animals, all their body sizes are added together, producing a single thought. All colonists are counted for this, but only those of an appropriate ideoligion will get the thought.

Despite being tameable, [[Insectoids]] cannot be selected as a venerated animal.

Venerated animals are twice as easy to tame.

== Hair and tattoos ==
An ideoligion has associated hairstyles, beards, and tattoos. Specific hairstyles and tattoos may be allowed for men, women, or either. Some of those may be more or less common.

Newly spawned pawns of an ideoligion will always have matching appearance.

If pawn's hairstyle, beard, or tattoo do not match what their ideoligion allows (usually as a result of a conversion), they will try to use [[styling station]] on their free time to automatically change their looks, and will have a -??{{Check Tag|Value?}} mood penalty until they do so. They can also be sent to adjust their appearance manually.

== Version history ==
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Added.
* [[Version/1.3.3067|1.3.3067]] - Fixed gender supremacy memes having opposite agreeing traits e.g. Female Supremacy inexplicably being agreed with by Misogynist traited pawns.
** Fix: Essential roles can be removed.
* [[Version/1.3.3069|1.3.3069]] -
** Adjust trees-related thoughts. Negatives for killing trees are reduced. Positives for seeing trees are amplified.
** Chance of resentment on failed conversion attempt reduced from 36% to 20%. Chance of fight reduced from 4% to 2%.
** If a pawn has sight under 50%, he should gain a psychic sensitivity bonus of up to 50%.
* [[Version/1.3.3069b|1.3.3069b]] - Added a feature that lets you save and load ideoligions within the ideoligion customization screen.
* [[Version/1.3.3074|1.3.3074]] - Desired apparel now uses the same faction restrictions as role apparel does. Tribal-Only: War mask, Tribal Headdress. Non-tribal only: Slicecap, Beret. Removed visage mask restriction to non-tribal only. Integrate art for rough living issue and set it to medium importance. Ensure Tunneler meme always has the MiningYield_High precept.
** Fix 5234: Pawns can build turrets when prohibited by precepts.
* [[Version/1.3.3076|1.3.3076]] - Tree connection pawns have a 25% boost to [[Pruning Speed]]. Added temperature tough issue and precept.
** Fix: High life meme ideos generate with a warning about conflicting apparel.
* [[Version/1.3.3080|1.3.3080]] - Fixed Immunity Drive. Was previously targeting wrong stat and inoperative. Add a new ideoligion setup interface which allows playing like classic RimWorld, using presets, or fully customizing. Change harmful aging thought minimum age from 20 to 25. Added temperature precept icon.
* [[Version/1.3.3087|1.3.3087]] - Fix: Nutrient paste does not produce ate meat or ate non meat thoughts.
* [[Version/1.3.3101|1.3.3101]] - Fluid ideoligion system added. Reduce production specialist crafting speed buffs from +70% to +50%. Increase impact of 'lost role' thought from {{--|5}} to {{--|15}}. Pawns now recover from [[#Melee specialist|berserk trance]] on being downed.
** Fix: There are some duplicate ideoligion icons.
** Fix: Tree lovers don't care about harvesting / chopping down cocoa trees. Individualist meme description changed from ''A community's role is to serve each individual.'' changed to ''Each person is a free individual with the right to their own ideas and decisions. Nobody should be made to conform.'' Collectivist meme description changed from ''A person's role is to serve the community.'' changed to ''Each person is part of a greater whole. People should work to play their part and help the group.''
* [[Version/1.3.3117|1.3.3117]] -
** Fix: Sunlamp does not trigger blinding light for Darkness pawns.
** Improved viability of multi-ideo colonies. Pawns of pawns of any ideo can now spectate any ritual, even if it's not of their own ideo.
** Gaining, changing, or removing a role now requires a simple ritual.
** Added a precept related to Darkness meme that gives believers a positive thought during an eclipse.
* [[Version/1.3.3159|1.3.3159]] - Precept name length is now limited.
* [[Version/1.3.3200|1.3.3200]] - Pawns can now install pre-built furniture even if it is incompatible with their ideoligion.
** Fix: Special characters on named precepts can break UI.
* [[Version/1.3.3287|1.3.3287]] - A thin faint box is now drawn around ideoligion preset selectables, precept and meme boxes for aesthetic reasons. Reworked eclipse precept artwork. Remove the 'no recent animal slaughter' negative thought from the rancher meme, along with all associated code and content. This particular thought was too limiting for players and not worth having. Previously inflicted a {{--|3}} mood.
** Fix: Classic mode ideoligions don't start with some classic precepts.
** Fix: Ideoligion info available on ritual begin dialog in classic mode. Meme "Flesh Purity" no longer forces the anti-biosculpting precept.
* [[Version/1.3.3326|1.3.3326]] - Display incompatible issue and precept names instead of just precept names in reformation confirmation dialog.
** Fix: Reforming a fluid ideo lists some precepts as "incompatible" when they actually aren’t.
** Fix: Ability gizmos are still available for roles that have been removed via reformation.
* [[Version/1.3.3387|1.3.3387]] - Fix: Not all precepts are added to memes during fluid ideoligion development. "No slaves in colony" thought does not apply at "Very low" expectations or below.
* [[Version/1.4.3523|1.4.3523]] -
**Fix: Berserker trance makes pawn guilty even though they cannot attack allies.
** Fix: High Life harvest yield for Drug Use: Essential precept doesn't work. Randomizing precepts no longer brings up a confirmation dialog if the user has not edited precepts.
* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] - [[Biotech DLC]] cross integration. Added mechanoid labor, child labor, growth vats, and bloodfeeders precepts. Added bloodfeeding meme. Added a new category of precept: Preferred xenotypes.
** Fix: Pilgrims coming to venerate a relic cause charity believers to get unhappy regardless of outcome. Yttakin factions no longer get desired apparel precepts, because they’re uncomfortable in all clothes.
* [[Version/1.4.3557|1.4.3557]] - Assign a fallback ideo{{Check Tag|Detail Needed}} to non-baby colonists during load that don't have an ideo set.
** Fix: "Child not in growth vat" thought appears for dead children.
** Fix: Banishing colonists doesn't recalculate faction ideoligions.
* [[Version/1.4.3563|1.4.3563]] - Fix: Animals specialist role mentions boosting animal-related abilities of nearby allies, which is false. "''A special ideoligious status focusing on animals to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased taming and training efficiency, and the ability to boost the animals-related abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-animals-related tasks.''" -> ''"A special ideoligious status focusing on animals to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased taming and training efficiency. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-animals-related tasks."''
* [[Version/1.4.3613|1.4.3613]] - Fix: Randomize symbols doesn't update member noun in ideology's description.
** Fix: Pawn auto-uses age reversal after changing from Transhumanist to Non-Transhumanist ideoligion.
* [[Version/1.6.4543|1.6.4543]] - Allowed the trader's guild faction to generate more variety in their ideoligion.

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Precept Eclipse OLD.png|Eclipse Precept icon prior to 1.3.3287
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[[Category:Game mechanics]]

Endings

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While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 5 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}
* [[#The Mechhive|Storming the mechhive]] {{OdysseyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
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= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by many [[raid]]s. The Ship Startup event will have 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Ship Launch raids during the event 10 and the maximum 20. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. The Ship Launch raids have a minimum of 500 [[Raid points]].
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists. Only one loaded casket is required to launch the ship.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{Icon Small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{Icon Small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{Icon Small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{Icon Small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{Icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{Icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{Icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{Icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{Icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{Icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{Icon Small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{Icon Small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{Icon Small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Archon|Archon]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
The onslaught of raids will consist of 8 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Royal Ascent raids during the event 8 and the maximum 16. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your storyteller, who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. Royal Ascent raids have a minimum of 500 Raid points.
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't targeted any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[word of joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, word of joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]].
** The factions owning the three map pieces will always be the [[Outlanders#Civil outlander union|civil outlander union]], the [[Outlanders#Rough outlander union|rough outlander union]], and the [[Tribes#Fierce tribe|fierce tribe]] faction, in that order.
** Should the faction normally owning the map piece is unavailable to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
** The [[Outlanders#Rough pig union|rough pig union]]{{BiotechIcon}} and the [[Tribes#Fierce neanderthal tribe|fierce neanderthal tribe]]{{BiotechIcon}} will never have the map piece, even when their [[baseliner]] counterparts are not enabled.

* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
** Analysis of [[signal chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} is not undone by the [[research]] reset.

* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The [[Production specialist]] role is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With the right combination of [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{Icon Small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{Icon Small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{Icon Small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, severely limit the number selected.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Specifics ==
===Stage 1===
Other major threats cannot occur during the Anomaly endgame event. There will not be standard raids, infestation nor other major threats, nor threats sent by quests and even the ship launch will not occur.

After activating the monolith the precursor to [[Unnatural darkness]] will occur. The map will be devoid of sunlight perpetually. The map will not become overwhelmingly dark and there will not threats hidden in dark areas of the map. Colonists will not take damage when they wander into unlit areas.

Two [[Void structure]]s will land on the map and [[Metalhorror]]s will appear with them.

A [[Fleshbeast attack]] event will occur.

Wandering singular [[Noctol]]s and [[Gorehulk]]s will appear from the map's edge in very low numbers. If these wandering entities are killed another will wander in from the map's edge. The map will constantly have low numbers of singular wandering entities.

Activating the two [[Void structure]]s is required to progress to the next stage. After activating either Void structure, an attack of assorted entities will appear from the map's edge. The attacks may consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, or Devourers.

===Stage 2===
After activating the second Void structure, there will be a 2 day delay until the beginning of the second stage. Notification of Dimming Sky will be given via a yellow letter.

Singular Noctol and Gorehulk wanderers will still continuously patrol about the map and new entities will be spawned if any are killed.

After the two day wait, three [[Void structure]]s will appear on the map and be accompanied by [[Metalhorror]]s.

The sky will dim into full [[Unnatural darkness]]. Any colonist in a dark area will be damaged by mysterious entities.

Activating any of the three Void structures will cause entity attacks from the map's edge. These entity attacks can consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, Devourers, Sightstealers or Noctols.

Once all 3 Void structures are activated the Monolith will begin to twist. After 4 hours, the "twisting" of the monolith will intensify, Metallhorrors will appear around the monolith, and the monolith will become a portal to Metalhell. Activating the Monolith one last time will send one colonist to Metalhell and allow the player to end the event.

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choosing an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutter, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already has charges from other sources, such as the [[Psychic rituals#Imbue death refusal|imbue death refusal]] psychic ritual, the total is still set to 4 charges and any additional charges are simply lost.
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undone by a [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell return to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= The Mechhive =
{{Odyssey|section=1}}
{{stub|section=1}}
== The Gravship ==
The Gravship quest appears once you have a [[grav engine]]. You will get its sub-quests overtime as the grav engine passively scans for nearby gravship technology.

For the Mechhive sub-quest to appear, 7 other sub-quests is needed. Once the [[Mechhive]] is located, a [[gravship]] with [[signal jammer]] is the only mandatory criterion - though you will need more to be prepared to survive there.

== Entering the Mechhive ==
The mechhive is a huge map with a large amount of rooms that contain loot crates, dormant [[mechanoid]]s, mechanoid spawners, and turrets. All of the buildings are made of [[fortified wall]]s, making breaching extremely hard but not impossible. Once you arrive at the mechhive, the [[cerebrex core]] is immediately visible, but it is protected by [[cerebrex stabilizer]]s hidden and scattered among the map, which makes the cerebrex core invulnerable.

When each cerebrex stabilizer is destroyed, it calls a mechanoid drop raid that attacks immediately. The 3rd and final mech drop raid is 50% larger than the previous two.

Once all cerebrex stabilizers are destroyed, the "inspect cerebrex core" action becomes available. Doing so requires 15 seconds before prompting a dialogue with two options to conclude the quest (plus "postpone").

== Ending - Destroy the core ==
{{Quote|(name) begins to tear apart the hair-thin cerebral mesh inside the cerebrex core. The mesh twists and groans, as if alive. Electricity arcs among the latticework frame - then in an instant, all goes dark and lifeless. The mechanoid whirring stops. Here, and all across the planet, mechanoids begin to permanently deactivate, no longer under the control of the mechhive. '''The mechanoid threat is over.''' But your story continues...|Endgame text after Destroy the core.}}

Once you confirm destroy the core, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that destroyed the core gains a {{+|14}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 30 days.
* [[Mechanoid hive]] is deactivated, and all its mechanoids and buildings stop functioning.
** Those spawned later, such as by an [[orbital mech cluster targeter]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} or a [[Mechanitor]]s'{{BiotechIcon}} mechanoid going feral, are also deactivated upon spawn.
** Mechanoid raids and [[mechanoid cluster]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} no longer occur as [[Events#Major threats|major threats]]; other effects may still triggering them.
** [[Mechanitor]]s{{BiotechIcon}} can no longer summon [[mechanoid commander]]s.
** Friendly mechanoids{{BiotechIcon}} continue to function, and new mechanoids can still be gestated.
** Because mechanoid commanders can no longer be summoned, new [[signal chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} cannot be acquired.
* The cerebrex core becomes a [[destroyed cerebrex core]] and can be destroyed for 8 [[steel slag chunk]]s, 300 [[plasteel]]s, 5 [[advanced component]]s and 1 [[persona core]].

{{Quote|By destroying the cerebrex core, (name) has deactivated mechanoids across the planet. The mechanoid threat is over.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

== Ending - Scavenge technology ==
{{Quote|(name) begins working to free a processing node buried within the core. The latticework frame convulses as if in agony. As (name) pulls the node free, the mesh begins to mend, repairing the damage. The core rebuilds its defences and closes. Turning the node over, (name) recoils as it sparks to life, pulsing in time with the core. '''In his/her hand, (name) holds a weapon of untold power.''' The story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm scavenge technology, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, a [[cerebrex node]] drop next to the cerebrex core. The cerebrex core remains invulnerable for the rest of the game.

{{Quote|The scavenged node from the cerebrex core lies nearby. It responds strongly to the core, clearly still linked to it. Equip the node to a colonist to make use of it.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again. When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again after eight in-game hours have passed. At a certain point (about seven new groups), the game will stop offering this prompt.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Mechhive ending added.

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While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 5 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}
* [[#The Mechhive|Storming the mechhive]] {{OdysseyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
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= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by many [[raid]]s. The Ship Startup event will have 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Ship Launch raids during the event 10 and the maximum 20. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. The Ship Launch raids have a minimum of 500 [[Raid points]].
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists. Only one loaded casket is required to launch the ship.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{Icon Small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{Icon Small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{Icon Small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{Icon Small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{Icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{Icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{Icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{Icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{Icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{Icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{Icon Small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{Icon Small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{Icon Small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Archon|Archon]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
The onslaught of raids will consist of 8 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Royal Ascent raids during the event 8 and the maximum 16. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your storyteller, who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. Royal Ascent raids have a minimum of 500 Raid points.
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't targeted any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[word of joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, word of joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]].
** The factions owning the three map pieces will always be the [[Outlanders#Civil outlander union|civil outlander union]], the [[Outlanders#Rough outlander union|rough outlander union]], and the [[Tribes#Fierce tribe|fierce tribe]] faction, in that order.
** Should the faction normally owning the map piece is unavailable to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
** The [[Outlanders#Rough pig union|rough pig union]]{{BiotechIcon}} and the [[Tribes#Fierce neanderthal tribe|fierce neanderthal tribe]]{{BiotechIcon}} will never have the map piece, even when their [[baseliner]] counterparts are not enabled.

* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
** Analysis of [[signal chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} is not undone by the [[research]] reset.

* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The [[Production specialist]] role is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With the right combination of [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{Icon Small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{Icon Small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{Icon Small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, severely limit the number selected.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other 2 endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Specifics ==
===Stage 1===
Other major threats cannot occur during the Anomaly endgame event. There will not be standard raids, infestation nor other major threats, nor threats sent by quests and even the ship launch will not occur.

After activating the monolith the precursor to [[Unnatural darkness]] will occur. The map will be devoid of sunlight perpetually. The map will not become overwhelmingly dark and there will not threats hidden in dark areas of the map. Colonists will not take damage when they wander into unlit areas.

Two [[Void structure]]s will land on the map and [[Metalhorror]]s will appear with them.

A [[Fleshbeast attack]] event will occur.

Wandering singular [[Noctol]]s and [[Gorehulk]]s will appear from the map's edge in very low numbers. If these wandering entities are killed another will wander in from the map's edge. The map will constantly have low numbers of singular wandering entities.

Activating the two [[Void structure]]s is required to progress to the next stage. After activating either Void structure, an attack of assorted entities will appear from the map's edge. The attacks may consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, or Devourers.

===Stage 2===
After activating the second Void structure, there will be a 2 day delay until the beginning of the second stage. Notification of Dimming Sky will be given via a yellow letter.

Singular Noctol and Gorehulk wanderers will still continuously patrol about the map and new entities will be spawned if any are killed.

After the two day wait, three [[Void structure]]s will appear on the map and be accompanied by [[Metalhorror]]s.

The sky will dim into full [[Unnatural darkness]]. Any colonist in a dark area will be damaged by mysterious entities.

Activating any of the three Void structures will cause entity attacks from the map's edge. These entity attacks can consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, Devourers, Sightstealers or Noctols.

Once all 3 Void structures are activated the Monolith will begin to twist. After 4 hours, the "twisting" of the monolith will intensify, Metallhorrors will appear around the monolith, and the monolith will become a portal to Metalhell. Activating the Monolith one last time will send one colonist to Metalhell and allow the player to end the event.

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choosing an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutter, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already has charges from other sources, such as the [[Psychic rituals#Imbue death refusal|imbue death refusal]] psychic ritual, the total is still set to 4 charges and any additional charges are simply lost.
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undone by a [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell return to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= The Mechhive =
{{Odyssey|section=1}}
{{stub|section=1}}
== The Gravship ==
The Gravship quest appears once you have a [[grav engine]]. You will get its sub-quests overtime as the grav engine passively scans for nearby gravship technology.

For the Mechhive sub-quest to appear, 7 other sub-quests is needed. Once the [[Mechhive]] is located, a [[gravship]] with [[signal jammer]] is the only mandatory criterion - though you will need more to be prepared to survive there.

== Entering the Mechhive ==
The mechhive is a huge map with a large amount of rooms that contain loot crates, dormant [[mechanoid]]s, mechanoid spawners, and turrets. All of the buildings are made of [[fortified wall]]s, making breaching extremely hard but not impossible. Once you arrive at the mechhive, the [[cerebrex core]] is immediately visible, but it is protected by [[cerebrex stabilizer]]s hidden and scattered among the map, which makes the cerebrex core invulnerable.

When each cerebrex stabilizer is destroyed, it calls a mechanoid drop raid that attacks immediately. The 3rd and final mech drop raid is 50% larger than the previous two.

Once all cerebrex stabilizers are destroyed, the "inspect cerebrex core" action becomes available. Doing so requires 15 seconds before prompting a dialogue with two options to conclude the quest (plus "postpone").

== Ending - Destroy the core ==
{{Quote|(name) begins to tear apart the hair-thin cerebral mesh inside the cerebrex core. The mesh twists and groans, as if alive. Electricity arcs among the latticework frame - then in an instant, all goes dark and lifeless. The mechanoid whirring stops. Here, and all across the planet, mechanoids begin to permanently deactivate, no longer under the control of the mechhive. '''The mechanoid threat is over.''' But your story continues...|Endgame text after Destroy the core.}}

Once you confirm destroy the core, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that destroyed the core gains a {{+|14}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 30 days.
* [[Mechanoid hive]] is deactivated, and all its mechanoids and buildings stop functioning.
** Those spawned later, such as by an [[orbital mech cluster targeter]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} or a [[Mechanitor]]s'{{BiotechIcon}} mechanoid going feral, are also deactivated upon spawn.
** Mechanoid raids and [[mechanoid cluster]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} no longer occur as [[Events#Major threats|major threats]]; other effects may still triggering them.
** [[Mechanitor]]s{{BiotechIcon}} can no longer summon [[mechanoid commander]]s.
** Friendly mechanoids{{BiotechIcon}} continue to function, and new mechanoids can still be gestated.
** Because mechanoid commanders can no longer be summoned, new [[signal chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} cannot be acquired.
* The cerebrex core becomes a [[destroyed cerebrex core]] and can be destroyed for 8 [[steel slag chunk]]s, 300 [[plasteel]]s, 5 [[advanced component]]s and 1 [[persona core]].

{{Quote|By destroying the cerebrex core, (name) has deactivated mechanoids across the planet. The mechanoid threat is over.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

== Ending - Scavenge technology ==
{{Quote|(name) begins working to free a processing node buried within the core. The latticework frame convulses as if in agony. As (name) pulls the node free, the mesh begins to mend, repairing the damage. The core rebuilds its defences and closes. Turning the node over, (name) recoils as it sparks to life, pulsing in time with the core. '''In his/her hand, (name) holds a weapon of untold power.''' The story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm scavenge technology, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, a [[cerebrex node]] drop next to the cerebrex core, and the cerebrex core remains invulnerable.

{{Quote|The scavenged node from the cerebrex core lies nearby. It responds strongly to the core, clearly still linked to it. Equip the node to a colonist to make use of it.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again. When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again after eight in-game hours have passed. At a certain point (about seven new groups), the game will stop offering this prompt.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Mechhive ending added.

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While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 5 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}
* [[#The Mechhive|Storming the mechhive]] {{OdysseyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
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= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by many [[raid]]s. The Ship Startup event will have 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Ship Launch raids during the event 10 and the maximum 20. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. The Ship Launch raids have a minimum of 500 [[Raid points]].
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists. Only one loaded casket is required to launch the ship.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{Icon Small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{Icon Small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{Icon Small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{Icon Small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{Icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{Icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{Icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{Icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{Icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{Icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{Icon Small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{Icon Small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{Icon Small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Archon|Archon]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
The onslaught of raids will consist of 8 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Royal Ascent raids during the event 8 and the maximum 16. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your storyteller, who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. Royal Ascent raids have a minimum of 500 Raid points.
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't targeted any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[word of joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, word of joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]].
** The factions owning the three map pieces will always be the [[Outlanders#Civil outlander union|civil outlander union]], the [[Outlanders#Rough outlander union|rough outlander union]], and the [[Tribes#Fierce tribe|fierce tribe]] faction, in that order.
** Should the faction normally owning the map piece is unavailable to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
** The [[Outlanders#Rough pig union|rough pig union]]{{BiotechIcon}} and the [[Tribes#Fierce neanderthal tribe|fierce neanderthal tribe]]{{BiotechIcon}} will never have the map piece, even when their [[baseliner]] counterparts are not enabled.

* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
** Analysis of [[signal chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} is not undone by the [[research]] reset.

* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The [[Production specialist]] role is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With the right combination of [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{Icon Small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{Icon Small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{Icon Small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, severely limit the number selected.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other 2 endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Specifics ==
===Stage 1===
Other major threats cannot occur during the Anomaly endgame event. There will not be standard raids, infestation nor other major threats, nor threats sent by quests and even the ship launch will not occur.

After activating the monolith the precursor to [[Unnatural darkness]] will occur. The map will be devoid of sunlight perpetually. The map will not become overwhelmingly dark and there will not threats hidden in dark areas of the map. Colonists will not take damage when they wander into unlit areas.

Two [[Void structure]]s will land on the map and [[Metalhorror]]s will appear with them.

A [[Fleshbeast attack]] event will occur.

Wandering singular [[Noctol]]s and [[Gorehulk]]s will appear from the map's edge in very low numbers. If these wandering entities are killed another will wander in from the map's edge. The map will constantly have low numbers of singular wandering entities.

Activating the two [[Void structure]]s is required to progress to the next stage. After activating either Void structure, an attack of assorted entities will appear from the map's edge. The attacks may consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, or Devourers.

===Stage 2===
After activating the second Void structure, there will be a 2 day delay until the beginning of the second stage. Notification of Dimming Sky will be given via a yellow letter.

Singular Noctol and Gorehulk wanderers will still continuously patrol about the map and new entities will be spawned if any are killed.

After the two day wait, three [[Void structure]]s will appear on the map and be accompanied by [[Metalhorror]]s.

The sky will dim into full [[Unnatural darkness]]. Any colonist in a dark area will be damaged by mysterious entities.

Activating any of the three Void structures will cause entity attacks from the map's edge. These entity attacks can consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, Devourers, Sightstealers or Noctols.

Once all 3 Void structures are activated the Monolith will begin to twist. After 4 hours, the "twisting" of the monolith will intensify, Metallhorrors will appear around the monolith, and the monolith will become a portal to Metalhell. Activating the Monolith one last time will send one colonist to Metalhell and allow the player to end the event.

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choosing an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutter, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already has charges from other sources, such as the [[Psychic rituals#Imbue death refusal|imbue death refusal]] psychic ritual, the total is still set to 4 charges and any additional charges are simply lost.
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undone by a [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell return to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= The Mechhive =
{{Odyssey|section=1}}
{{stub|section=1}}
== The Gravship ==
The Gravship quest appears once you have a [[grav engine]]. You will get its sub-quests overtime as the grav engine passively scans for nearby gravship technology.

For the Mechhive sub-quest to appear, 7 other sub-quests is needed. Once the [[Mechhive]] is located, a [[gravship]] with [[signal jammer]] is the only mandatory criterion - though you will need more to be prepared to survive there.

== Entering the Mechhive ==
The mechhive is a huge map with a large amount of rooms that contain loot crates, dormant [[mechanoid]]s, mechanoid spawners, and turrets. All of the buildings are made of [[fortified wall]]s, making breaching extremely hard but not impossible. Once you arrive at the mechhive, the [[cerebrex core]] is immediately visible, but it is protected by [[cerebrex stabilizer]]s hidden and scattered among the map, which makes the cerebrex core invulnerable.

When each cerebrex stabilizer is destroyed, it calls a mechanoid drop raid that attacks immediately. The 3rd and final mech drop raid is 50% larger than the previous two.

Once all cerebrex stabilizers are destroyed, the "inspect cerebrex core" action becomes available. Doing so requires 15 seconds before prompting a dialogue with two options to conclude the quest (plus "postpone").

== Ending - Destroy the core ==
{{Quote|(name) begins to tear apart the hair-thin cerebral mesh inside the cerebrex core. The mesh twists and groans, as if alive. Electricity arcs among the latticework frame - then in an instant, all goes dark and lifeless. The mechanoid whirring stops. Here, and all across the planet, mechanoids begin to permanently deactivate, no longer under the control of the mechhive. '''The mechanoid threat is over.''' But your story continues...|Endgame text after Destroy the core.}}

Once you confirm destroy the core, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that destroy the core gains a {{+|14}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 30 days.
* [[Mechanoid hive]] is deactivated, and all its mechanoids and buildings stop functioning.
** Those spawned later, such as by an [[orbital mech cluster targeter]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} or a [[Mechanitor]]s'{{BiotechIcon}} mechanoid going feral, are also deactivated upon spawn.
** Mechanoid raids and mechanoid clusters{{RoyaltyIcon}} spawn in with disabled mechanoids and turrets.
** [[Mechanitor]]s{{BiotechIcon}} can no longer summon [[mechanoid commander]]s.
** Friendly mechanoids{{BiotechIcon}} continue to function, and new mechanoids can still be gestated.
** Because mechanoid commanders can no longer be summoned, new [[signal chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} cannot be acquired.
* The cerebrex core becomes a [[destroyed cerebrex core]] and can be destroyed for 8 [[steel slag chunk]]s, 300 [[plasteel]]s, 5 [[advanced component]]s and 1 [[persona core]].

{{Quote|By destroying the cerebrex core, (name) has deactivated mechanoids across the planet. The mechanoid threat is over.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

== Ending - Scavenge technology ==
{{Quote|(name) begins working to free a processing node buried within the core. The latticework frame convulses as if in agony. As (name) pulls the node free, the mesh begins to mend, repairing the damage. The core rebuilds its defences and closes. Turning the node over, (name) recoils as it sparks to life, pulsing in time with the core. '''In his/her hand, (name) holds a weapon of untold power.''' The story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm scavenge technology, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, a [[cerebrex node]] drop next to the cerebrex core, and the cerebrex core remains invulnerable.

{{Quote|The scavenged node from the cerebrex core lies nearby. It responds strongly to the core, clearly still linked to it. Equip the node to a colonist to make use of it.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again. When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again after eight in-game hours have passed. At a certain point (about seven new groups), the game will stop offering this prompt.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Mechhive ending added.

[[Category:Game mechanics]] [[Category:Guides]]

Ship

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{{Distinguish|Gravship}}
{{For|trade ships|Trade ship}}

The '''ship''', also known as endgame ship, once fully assembled, will allow the colonists to escape the planet and [[Endings#Ship_to_the_Stars|win the game]].

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| [[file:ShipBeam.png|50px|link=Ship structural beam]]
| [[file:ShipCryptosleepCasket.png|75px|link=Ship cryptosleep casket]]
| [[file:Ship computer core.png| 100px|link=Ship computer core]]
| [[file:ShipReactor.png| 100px|link=Ship reactor]]
| [[file:ShipEngine.png| 100px|link=Ship engine]]
| [[file:Sensor cluster.png| 100px|link=Sensor cluster]]
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| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship structural beam]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship cryptosleep casket]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship computer core]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship reactor]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship engine]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Sensor cluster]]
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==Summary==
A working ship must include 3 [[ship engine|engines]] and 1 of each other ship part. Therefore, the absolute minimum amount of supplies needed to create a fully functional ship is as follows:
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* {{icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]]
* {{icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]]
* {{icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]]
* {{icon Small|advanced component||40}} [[advanced component]]
* {{icon Small|component||12}} [[component]]
* {{icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]]
* {{icon small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]]
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Specifically, the ship needs 3 things to launch:
* Have all necessary parts built and connected.
** Any ship part can connect to any other ship part, except for [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s, which must connect to a [[ship structural beam]]. (I.e., beams are ''only'' required for caskets)
* Have the [[ship reactor]] activated. The activation process takes 15 days and will attract constant [[raid]]ers, both human and mechanoid.
* Have at least one ship cryptosleep casket occupied.

The ships launch readiness can be displayed by selecting any ship part and clicking 'Show launch report'. It will either list deficiencies or display 'Ready for launch'. Only one occupied cryptosleep ship casket is necessary for launch, but each colonist or animal you wish to evacuate must have their own casket. Currently, animals have to be carried to caskets while downed. The easiest way to do it is to apply anesthesia on them.

== Analysis ==
=== Obtaining a ship ===
Building the ship requires a lot of materials.
* '''Metals''' - A common way to obtain lots of metal is with a [[ground-penetrating scanner]] (with [[deep drill]]s) or [[long-range mineral scanner]]. Both allow you to mine for an indefinite amount of ore. The long-range scanner can be tuned to a specific material, so if you specifically need a metal like [[uranium]], then the long-range scanner is relatively better.
* '''Advanced components''' - Generally the most difficult resource to acquire. Even if you have the supplies to make them, advanced components take a ''long'' time to craft. Significant numbers can be [[trade]]d for if you have a healthy caravan network. If you are crafting a lot of them, ideally you'd have multiple skilled crafters working at multiple [[fabrication bench]]es with attached [[tool cabinet]]s. If you can afford to craft all these advanced components, you can afford to use multiple benches.
* '''[[Persona core]]''' - The most consistent way of obtaining the persona core is with the [[comms console]].

: Even if you don't get the "Persona Core Offer" notification, you can request a persona core location with any faction with at least +40 [[goodwill]]. The location costs {{icon small|silver}} 1500; [[Money making guide|get cash]], use [[transport pod]]s to raise goodwill (if needed), and travel to the location. There will be enemies present. You can also get persona cores from other, randomly generated [[quest]]s.

You can also travel to and use Charlon Whitestone's ship from the [[ship to the stars]] quest. See [[Endings#Traveling to the journey offer|Traveling to the journey offer]] for details. There is no functional difference between this ship and a constructed ship, though its configuration will not be tailored to your needs. And, because the journey offer ship isn't in your main colony, it won't have your main colony's defenses (yet).

===Ship launch===
{{Main|Ship launch}}
The key with the ship launch is to manage colonist [[mood]]. They'll be awake through night and day, both to deal with raids and to repair your defenses afterwards. [[Schedule]] your colonists with more Sleep and Recreation, make [[drug]]s and [[lavish meal]]s, and be prepared for a lot of combat. For more detail on the subject, see [[ship launch]].

The ship reactor does not require any other part of the ship to begin activation. It is optimal to begin activation as soon as the reactor is built and secured. Getting supplies for and constructing the other ship parts increases [[wealth]], which increases the strength of raids. In addition, the ship reactor can be surrounded with layers and layers of walls to ensure that your effort doesn't get wasted. After the 15 days, if you survive , you can start to gather all the resources and build the ship.

==Gallery==
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Ship.png|Colony-made ship, with space for 25 colonists.
Eventship.png|Journey offer event ship, with space for 18 colonists.
Ship minimum.png|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.
</gallery>

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Mental state

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A '''mental break''' is a pawn event that may occur when a pawns's '''mood''' drops below the '''mental break threshold'''. Majority types of mental break cause a '''mental state''', during which the pawn will become uncontrollable and shirk work tasks for a short while, or even worse, they will attempt to sabotage the colony. A breaking colonist may be interrupted by arresting or downing them. A few types of mental break, like catatonic breakdown or crisis of belief{{IdeologyIcon}}, do not cause mental state.

There are three levels of severity for mental break events: '''minor, major,''' and '''extreme'''. Each severity level has a different pool of possible events that may occur at different frequencies. Minor events include hiding in the pawn's room for a day, extreme events include murder.

Colonists, visitors, enemies, tamed, and wild animals all have types of mental breaks.

Some mental states may be induced by the player in battle, via [[psycast]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}} or weapons like the [[psychic shock lance]] or [[psychic insanity lance]].

== Mechanics ==
=== Mood ===
[[Mood]] is a visual indicator of how likely your pawn is to have a mental break. It is lowered by negative [[thoughts]] about the pawn's environment and raised by positive thoughts. Mood is found in the [[Needs]] tab of the pawn Inspect pane.

The three mental break severity levels directly correspond to the low mood levels '''Stressed, On edge,''' and '''About to break,''' respectively. Mental break events and frequencies are different for each mood level.

Pawn mood is related to the sum of all the thoughts a pawn has, so minor penalties can quickly add up to large effects on a pawn's stability. Some mental breaks are unavoidable in even the finest, happiest colonies, such as '''Fire Starting Sprees''' by pyromaniac pawns.

=== Thresholds ===
{{Main|Mental Break Threshold}}
A specific pawn's mental break thresholds are affected by various personality [[traits]]. Traits may directly raise or lower mental break threshold, such as [[Steadfast]] or [[Nervous]] respectively. Some traits add permanent negative thoughts, like [[Pessimist]], or conditional negative thoughts, like [[Night owl]]. Multiple traits have an additive effect, but the minor break threshold is capped between 1% and 50%.

The major break threshold is 4/7 of the minor break threshold, while the extreme break threshold is 1/4 of that (1/7 of the minor break threshold). The base mental break threshold stat is 35%, which yields the following:
* Minor break threshold: 35%
* Major break threshold: 20%
* Extreme break threshold: 5%

=== Severity ===
There are three severity levels of mental break events, each with their own possible events and frequencies.

* Below their base mental break threshold, they will have a minor break in a mean time of 10 days.
* Below their major break threshold, they will have a major break in a mean time of 3 days.
* Below their extreme mental break threshold, their mood is ~5% and "About to break." they will have an extreme break in a mean time of 0.7 days.

=== During ===
[[File:Colonist icon while Binging on Psychite.png|frame|left|108px|Colonist icon while breaking]]
While a colonist is experiencing a mental break, their name is displayed '''in green''' in the colonist bar (at the top of the game screen), and you have no direct control over them. They may enter restricted areas, consume restricted food or drugs, attack allies, or destroy objects. [[Arrest]] the misbehaving pawn to interrupt their mischievous actions. The broken colonist has a [[Arrest Success Chance|chance]] based on the arresting pawn's stats to either go berserk, or come quietly and be escorted to the nearest available prison bed - immediately ending their mental breakdown. However, arrest will downgrade their status as a member of your colony to a prisoner. Releasing them will return them to the colony, but replaces the catharsis bonus with a 'was imprisoned' negative thought (-8).

Another more extreme way of ending a mental break is by attacking the offending pawn, such as by beating the pawn with [[Weapons#Melee weapons|blunt-damage melee weapons]] until they are incapacitated by pain, or by inflicting [[brain shock]]. This is the only way to stop a berserk pawn. However, direct violence causes the victim to have a negative opinion of the colonists who beat him up, and you risk killing the pawn if he is already injured. It is ineffective if the pawn feels reduced pain, like those with the [[Painstopper]] implant or high on [[Go-juice]].

The [[word of serenity]] psycast{{RoyaltyIcon}} will instantly end any mental break by forcing the target into a 6 hour coma. The psyfocus cost depends on the level of the mental break the target is experiencing. This cannot be used on [[babies]]{{BiotechIcon}} or [[children]]{{BiotechIcon}}.

While having a break, at the top of the game screen, a colonist will be designated with a small "lightning bolt" icon over their image; yellow for non-aggressive breaks (such as food binge or daze), and red for aggressive ones (such as tantrum or berserk).

=== Aftermath ===
Once a pawn's mental break ends, they'll revert back to their usual schedule and work and may be drafted again. Their thoughts do not 'reset,' so negative thoughts may still be present. Pawns get the [[Thoughts#Catharsis|'catharsis']] thought, granting a +40 mood for the next 2.5 days. This will generally prevent a pawns from entering a spiral of mental breakdowns in all but the worst scenarios.

Colonists with the [[Traits#Tortured artist|Tortured Artist trait]] will have a constant mood debuff (-8) but also have a chance (50%) to receive a creative inspiration after a mental break ends. Note that this does not include the [[#Fleeing fire|Fleeing fire]] break.

Colonists may be considered '''guilty''' after particularly destructive breaks and may then be banished or executed with no consequences.

== Minor break ==

=== Food binge ===
[[File:FoodBinge.png|thumb|right|Food Binge]]

Causes the pawn to pig out on whatever food they can get their hands on.{{Check Tag|Details|Limits, preference, etc}}

This break can only occur when the map the pawn is currently on contains more than 10 human-edible nutrition in a [[stockpile zone]], however an already ongoing binge will not end if all the food is consumed or otherwise removed. Pawns with the [[Trait#Gourmand|Gourmand trait]] will experience this on average once every 50 days.

Pawns may ignore [[food policy]] restrictions during this binge, and will also disregard whether a food item has been disallowed. Pawns tend to prioritize eating higher-quality food regardless of such restrictions.{{Check Tag|Details|Requires more testing to be more specific}} If there is no food, or only low quality (raw (?)) food available in storage, pawns may travel large distances across the map to eat other food on the map, including [[insect jelly]] that is guarded by hostile [[insectoids]]. This can result in pawns being killed by insect hives.

A binge will end as soon as the affected pawn goes to bed, or after a certain amount of time has passed. Note that is [[wake-up]] is available the pawn will take it during the break down, extending it to it's maximum duration.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.8
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=== Sad wander ===
[[File:SadWander.png|thumb|right|Sad Wander]]

Causes the pawn to wander around aimlessly, eventually recovering on their own. Like the [[Mental break#Psychotic wandering (Daze)|Psychotic wandering (Daze)]] event, but shorter.

Wandering colonists can be [[prisoners|arrested]], which can be useful if they are in imminent danger.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days (4 hrs) 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Hide in room ===
[[File:HideInRoom.png|thumb|right|Hide in Room]]

Causes the pawn to wander about in their room, refusing to come out or satisfy their needs.

This break can only occur if the breaking pawn has a bedroom assigned to them.

This break is relatively short, and usually does not put the pawn in harm's way. At worst, the pawn may suffer from mild starvation or exhaustion.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Insulting spree ===
Causes the pawn insult nearby colonists at random, making moods worse for everyone affected.

Insults can lead to a social fight, which would then lead to the end of the break.

Requires at least two other pathable colonists to occur.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Targeted insulting spree ===
Causes the pawn to follow and repeatedly insult one other colonist in particular.

This can totally ruin the victim's mood with an up to {{Bad|-33}} mood penalty through 10 stacked insults, which can potentially trigger a mental break in the victim as well.

Insults can lead to a social fight, which would then lead to the end of the break.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Crying ===
{{Biotech|section=1}}
Babies may randomly cry while awake, being more likely to occur under 50% mood. This mental break is '''silent''' and can only be seen if the name is temporarily changed to green, emitting a random crying surrounding around itself.

Colonist near the baby will experience a negative mood effect "Baby crying" {{Bad|-4}} unless they are a "Psychopath". Any pawn's opinion of the crying baby will drop by {{Bad|-12}}.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Giggling ===
{{Biotech|section=1}}
Babies may randomly giggle while awake, being more likely to occur over 50% mood. This mental break is '''silent''' and can only be seen if the name is temporarily changed to green, emitting a rainbow of colorful drawing around itself.

Colonist near the baby will experience a positive mood effect "Baby giggling" {{Good|+4}} unless they are a "Psychopath". Any pawn's opinion of the giggling baby will increase by {{Good|+12}}.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|25000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|45000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Dark visions ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Causes the pawn to mindlessly wander around, spouting utter nonsense about things that only they can see every 20-60 seconds. This can cause a negative mood effect of {{Bad|-2}} in nearby colonists, which can stack up to four times.

Upon recovery, the colonist will gain a {{Good|+30}} "Void catharsis"{{Check Tag|Thought template}} thought in place of the regular {{Good|+40}} that other mental breaks have.
:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|30000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|45000}} 
{{clear}}

==Major break==

===Social drug binge===
{{See also|Mental break#Hard drug binge{{!}}Hard drug binge}}
[[File:SocialBinge.png|thumb|right|Social Drug Binge]]

Causes the pawn to drink or smoke their problems away by binging on [[social drugs]] (i.e. [[ambrosia]], [[beer]], [[smokeleaf joint]]s, [[psychite tea]]).

This can only happen if you have social drugs present in your colony.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.133 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1

Pawns with the [[Traits#Teetotaler|Teetotaler]] Trait will never have this mental break but pawns with [[Ideoligion#Drug_use|Negative drug use]] precept{{IdeologyIcon}} still can, in which cause they may get a negative used drug moodlet dependent on the precept
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===Psychotic wandering (Daze)===
[[File:Daze.png|thumb|right|Daze]]

Causes the pawn to wander around aimlessly, eventually recovering on their own. The letter informing you of this break refers to it as a "Daze."

Affected colonists can ignore [[food restriction]]s. This can push the colony to collapse, especially with few colonists and without enough automation.

Dazed colonists can be [[prisoners|arrested]], which can be useful if they are in imminent danger.

Unlike sad wandering, [[prisoners]] can stage prison breaks whilst in this mental state. They will still wander around aimlessly, but will be able to open doors. They may still attack colonists if caught in melee.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days* 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|70000}}* 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|90000}}* 
:'''Commonality:''' 1 (See next)

'''Note:''' It has been observed that if a "dazed" colonist falls asleep, the recovery timer appears to pause until they wake up again.{{Check Tag|Verification|Observed in ver 1.3, Jan '22. But not vanilla, a couple dozen mods, so not 100% clear.}}
{{clear}}

[[File:Daze.png|thumb|right|Daze]]

===Psychotic wandering (Daze) Short===
Identical to the above, but with a shorter minimum time. Combined with the above break, this effectively doubles the chance of getting a "Psychotic Wandering" break.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|2500}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|90000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1 (See previous)
{{clear}}

=== Tantrum ===
Causes the pawn to take out their anger on the structures in the colony, randomly punching at (and possibly destroying) them. The attacks may create [[Filth#Building_rubble|building rubble]] in the process.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.033 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|8000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|12000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.333
{{clear}}

=== Targeted tantrum ===
Causes the pawn to take out their anger on a single structure or stack of items, punching at them until eventually destroyed. The tantrum will redirect to another structure or stack of items if that structure or stack of items is destroyed or made inaccessible.

Targeted tantrums are significantly more dangerous than the non-targeted variety, as the pawn has a much higher chance of actually destroying things instead of simply damaging them. They are especially dangerous when the pawn targets mortar shells (beware the [[antigrain warhead]]), which explode upon destruction, or if they attack important stacks such as stacks of components or medicine that the colony relies upon.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.333
{{clear}}

=== Bedroom tantrum ===
Causes the pawn to hide in their bedroom and randomly punch at structures within.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.333
{{clear}}

=== Sadistic rage ===
Causes the pawn to periodically melee attack prisoners for the duration of the mental break.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|30000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Corpse obsession ===
[[File:Corpse obsession.png|thumb|right|Corpse obsession]]
Causes the pawn to go to a grave or sarcophagus, dig up a corpse and drop it on a high-traffic spot, such as a table in a dining room. The obsession will then end.

This break can only occur if you have a filled grave or sarcophagus. The pawn is required to be capable of [[manipulation]].

While this break is somewhat quick, it can potentially bring "Observed corpse" mood debuffs to whoever sees the corpse, and can trigger a colony-wide "Colonist left unburied" mood debuff if the corpse was of a colonist.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|50000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|70000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.4
{{clear}}

=== Insane ramblings ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Causes the pawn to mindlessly wander around and spout utter nonsense every 10-15 seconds. Essentially a major variation of the dark visions break.

Much like dark visions, nearby colonists will experience negative thoughts, and the rambling pawn will gain a {{Good|+30}} thought upon recovery.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
{{clear}}

=== Entity slayer ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Afflicted pawn will try to execute as many captive [[Entity|entities]] as possible.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.033 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|8000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|12000}} 
{{clear}}

=== Humanity break ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Occurs in place of any mood-related mental break in colonists following an [[Ideoligion]] with the [[Ideoligion#Inhumanizing|Inhumanizing: Required]] precept. The pawn will wander around for some time and after recovery, will receive the [[inhumanized]] permanent hediff that prevents them from experiencing the break instead, among other things. They will gain a permanent {{Good|+8}} thought in place of the standard catharsis thought.
:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|10000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|15000}} 

==Extreme break==

===Berserk===
[[File:BerserkScreenshot.png|thumb|right|Berserk]]
The pawn will lose total control, melee attacking any living creature near them. They will not intentionally kill anything, although unlucky hits may still result in death, instead redirecting to another target once their current target is downed.

Pawns that are [[Work#Incapable_of_work_types|incapable of violent]] can still go berserk. Berserk colonists are able to use doors that are forbidden, and don't close doors behind them (auto-doors included). Berserk prisoners will bash at doors until they break.

Subduing the berserk pawn with bare fists or a blunt weapon poses the least risk of killing them. Once a berserk pawn is subdued, the break is over. They do not need to be arrested, and can be immediately rescued to recover from their injuries. If the berserker is not in danger and can be safely avoided, it can be best to leave them to rampage by themselves until their berserk rage wears off to avoid injuries.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Fire starting spree ===
[[File:Fire Starting Spree.png|thumb|right|Fire Starting Spree]]
Causes the pawn to go on a fire starting spree, targeting flammable materials and setting them ablaze.

Only [[pyromaniac]]s can suffer this break. It will replace all extreme breaks that they would otherwise suffer, as well as occur randomly, regardless of mood, with an {{MTB}} of 50 days. Pyromaniacs do not gain the Catharsis thought after these random fire starting sprees but will for sprees caused by low mood.

The [[pyrophobia]] gene{{BiotechIcon}} suppresses the pyromania trait entirely, including this mental break.

Fire-starting sprees are very short and can easily be dealt with by having somebody else "babysit" the pyromaniac, putting out fires as the pyromaniac pawn starts them. However, it is worthwhile to consider that they may also target volatile objects such as [[chemfuel]].

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.033 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|6000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|10000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Hard drug binge ===
{{See also|Mental break#Social drug binge{{!}}Social drug binge}}
[[File:HardBinge.png|thumb|right|Hard Drug Binge]]

Causes the pawn to binge on [[hard drugs]] (i.e. [[flake]], [[yayo]], [[go-juice]] and [[wake-up]]).

Hard drug binges are considerably more dangerous for the affected colonist's health than social drug binges, as hard drugs contribute towards [[overdose]]s which are potentially lethal, and can easily lead to an addiction and/or chemical damage. As with social binges, hard binges will either end when the affected colonist goes to bed, or after a certain amount of time has passed. Colonists taking [[penoxycyline]] and [[luciferium]] have nothing to do with the drug binge they are on.

Pawns with the [[Traits#Teetotaler|Teetotaler]] Trait will never have this mental break but pawns with [[Ideoligion#Drug_use|Negative drug use]] precept still can, in which cause they get a negative used drug moodlet dependent on the precept

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.133 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

===Catatonic breakdown===
Causes the pawn to enter a ''catatonic breakdown'' state, where they become incapacitated and need to be rescued.

This is one of the least immediately harmful of the extreme breaks as it does not result in injury or damage to colonists or structures. However, the affected colonist will be down for quite a long time, and unable to perform any work. This can be especially detrimental if the colonist performs a vital task in the colony.

Since catatonic breakdown is technically a health condition, usage of the [[healer mech serum]] or [[unnatural healing]]{{AnomalyIcon}} can instantly bring the affected colonist out of the mental break.

Only colonists can experience this mental break. Pawns from other factions, not under the players control, will not. Temporary colonists from [[quests]] or from [[permits]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} can experience this mental break.

This mental break does not trigger the Inspired Creativity [[mental inspiration]] from the [[Traits#Tortured artist|Tortured artist]] trait.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|100000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks/gametime|300000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Jailbreaker ===
[[File:Jailbreaker.png|thumb|right|Jailbreaker]]

The pawn will move to the targeted prisoner, and upon reaching them, a [[prison break]] event will trigger. Afterwards, the mental break will be changed to something else.

The pawn can be arrested or downed before reaching the prison cell.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Slaughterer ===
Causes the pawn to slaughter tamed animals at random.

If you have a lot of tamed animals this usually won't cause major losses, but there's a chance the maddened colonist may decide to butcher a [[bond]]ed animal, a [[boomalope]], or your favorite tamed [[thrumbo]], none of which are "good" outcomes.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.033 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|8000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|12000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 0.75
{{clear}}

=== Murderous rage ===
[[File:Murderous rage.png|thumb|right|400px|Murderous rage]]

Causes the pawn to select a random colonist or prisoner and melee attack them until they are dead. Once the target is killed the break is over.

This requires intervention from other colonists if the life of the victim is to be saved.
#This can be interrupted by attempting arrest. If it is successful, the colonist will quietly submit and go to prison along with the warden. Otherwise, the colonist will instead go berserk and will lash out at nearby colonists instead, which may be easier to deal with as the colonist is no longer hellbent on killing one person.
#If the murder target is rescued or otherwise becomes unpathable to the maddened colonist, they will instead select a new victim.

This break can occur in pawns placed temporarily under your control, such as those provided by [[quests]] or from [[permits]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}.

It is ten times less likely to occur in a colony with a population of two, and it increases linearly to the normal level at a population of seven or more.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|100000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|100000}} 
:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{Clear}}

=== Run wild ===
Causes the pawn to run into the wild and start acting like an animal. While acting like an animal, the pawn will subsist on wild sources of food, usually berry bushes or agave in arid biomes. They may wander across spike traps and randomly trigger them.

Unlike other breaks, this one lasts indefinitely without intervention. The only way to end it is to have another colonist tame the broken colonist and convince them to act like a human again. Taming a wild man is equivalent to taming an animal of 75% wildness, equivalent to an [[elephant]] or [[fox]], and requiring an [[Skills#Animals|Animals]] skill of 7 or greater.

Damaging them until they are downed isn't an advisable option; since they don't belong to your faction anymore, they will most likely die upon receiving enough damage to become incapacitated. Using a [[psychic shock lance]] to down them will ignore the storyteller [[death on downed]] chance, however there is always the risk of brain damage. If rescued, they have a chance to join you upon recovery.

Upon taming, they will have their usual Catharsis moodlet, and will have their Beauty and Comfort needs set to 50%, while their Outdoors needs is set to 100%.

It is much less likely to happen at lower population levels, and will never occur with a population of one, identical to that of the ''murderous rage'' break.

Additionally, it appears that this mental break does not trigger the Inspired Creativity [[mental inspiration]] from the [[Traits#Tortured artist|Tortured artist]] trait, however more testing is needed.{{Check Tag|Verify}}

:'''Commonality:''' 0.5
{{clear}}

=== Given up and leaving ===
Causes the pawn to decide they've had enough with the colony, and leave entirely.

This can be countered either by arresting the colonist, or incapacitating them by force. Sometimes a pawn can decide to return to the colony after having this break, but before they have left the map. For example, this can happen if the colonist is in the [[labyrinth]],{{AnomalyIcon}} which they cannot leave - the colonist will simply wander around the labyrinth for a while before "deciding" to stay in the colony. It is currently unclear what controls the rate of this occurrence. {{Check Tag|Detail needed}}

Quest lodgers and [[slaves]] cannot get this mental break. It will never occur if there are seven or less members in the colony, and the frequency increases linearly, capping at twelve colonists.{{Check Tag|Values?}}

:'''Commonality:''' 1

=== Crisis of belief ===
{{Ideology|section=1}}
{{Stub|reason=Confirmation and detail on how the weighting used to choose the replacement ideoligion is calculated - see GetIdeoWeight function}}
A pawn undergoes a crisis of faith in their [[ideoligion]], losing 50% of their [[Certainty]]. Unlike many forms of Certainty loss, this value is not modified by the pawn's their [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]].

Should this loss be sufficient to reduce the pawn to 0%, they will instead immediately convert to a different ideoligion. This ideoligion is randomly selected from all ideoligions in the current world, including the player's, with weighting based on the following factors:
* Every ideoligion has a base value of 1.
* +1 for each [[faction]] with that ideoligion that is allied to the breaking pawn's faction
* +1 for each spawned pawn with that ideoligion, on any map, that is the same faction as the breaking pawn
'''AND EITHER'''
* +1 for each spawned pawn on the same map from the same faction as the breaking pawn, or from a non-hostile faction.
'''OR'''
* +1 for each pawn with the ideoligion currently on a caravan, if the breaking pawn is currently on a caravan.
The random generator will never return the pawn's current ideoligion.

:'''Commonality:''' 1
{{clear}}

=== Entity liberator ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
The pawn is suddenly allured by a captive [[Entity|entity]], and will free it.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
{{clear}}

=== Terrifying hallucinations ===
[[File:Terrifying Hallucinations Demo.png|thumb|right|Terrifying hallucinations]]
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
The pawn will break down and start to hallucinate, seeing fellow colonists as nightmarish figures and will flee from anyone they perceive as a threat.

Whilst a pawn is in this state, shadowy figures will swirl around the afflicted pawn and they will ramble insane nonsense every 10-30 seconds. Much like other nonsensical rambling mental states, other colonists will be slightly upset by the afflicted pawn's nonsensical gibberish. The break may end when the pawn goes to sleep.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|40000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|60000}} 
{{clear}}

== Special ==
These mental states aren't mood-related, and have certain circumstances required to trigger them.

=== Confusion ===
[[File:Confusion.png|thumb|right|Confused and wandering]]

Similar to the 'Sad Wandering' mental state, except confused wandering only occurs on a pawn with Alzheimer's or Dementia, as well as those still woozy or recovering from anesthesia.

This mental state is similar to psychotic wandering in the respect that confused pawns are prone to wandering into dangerous situations, however they do not strip off their equipment. This mental state ends after a certain period of time, or when the affected pawn is downed or killed. All normal thoughts are blocked during this time frame.

It can also occur in animals after their [[bond]]ed master dies.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.2 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|3500}} 
{{clear}}

=== Social fighting ===
[[File:Social fighting.png|thumb|right|Traders social fighting]]

Social fighting is triggered when one pawn slights or insults another (significantly more likely with insulting than slighting), and the affected pawn gets angered. While very brief and usually only resulting in minor-moderate injury, social fighting can also end up with much worse results including a pawn getting downed, disfigured, or uncommonly even outright killed. Social fighting ends after a very short time, or when one of the fighting pawns gets downed or killed.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.02 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|420}} 
{{clear}}

=== Fleeing in panic ===
[[File:Fleeing in panic.png|thumb|right|Fleeing in panic]]

This sort of mental break happens when half (rounded up) of a group of non-colonist humanlikes are killed; whether it be hostiles, traders, or the like. Pawns affected by this mental state will attempt to leave the map by any means possible as soon as they realize that they're not going to win whatever battle they got caught up in.

This mental state will end once the affected pawn leaves the map, or when they're killed.

Pawns in this state will run indiscriminately towards the closest edge of the map, completely disregarding any hostiles in the way (such as your colonists firing at them), trying to smash down doors even when there is a clear path out next to them.
{{clear}}

=== Fleeing fire ===
{{Biotech|section=1}}
{{stub|section=1|reason=Mechanic details + numbers.}}
This sort of mental break happens when a pawn with [[Pyrophobia]] gene happens to be near the fire. It will cause them to flee far away from the source of fire.

This mental state will end once he or she no longer see fire within their field of vision.

The affected colonist does not gain the [Catharsis] mood buff from fleeing fire.
{{clear}}

=== Manhunter ===
{{For|the [[event]] that causes a pack of animals affected by this break to spawn on the map|Events#Manhunter pack}}
Animals may suffer a manhunter mental break, similar to [[Mental break#Berserk|berserk]]. A manhunter animal will seek out and attack any humans and [[Mechanoids]]. Animal pulser maddened animals will attack mechs on the map it can reach, regardless of faction, but will ignore tamed animals.

Manhunters will not spontaneously attempt to break through obstacles to hunt down pawns, but will attack doors if they see someone go through them. They will cease their attack after a short period, but may still successfully break it down in that time. If strong doors are not available to hide behind, try to get out of line of sight before ducking into a nearby building, be ready to repair the door from the inside, or simply accept that the door is only a temporary barrier.

The mental break can be triggered in several ways:
* Via the [[Events#Mad (Animal)|Mad Animal]] event. Affects 1 wild animal.
* Via the [[Events#Psychic Wave|Psychic Wave]] event. Affects all wild animals on the relevant map.
* Via the use of a [[psychic animal pulser]]. Affects all non-player owned animals on the relevant map.
* Via the use of [[Manhunter pulse|Manhunter Pulse]]. Affects all animals (including player-owned animals) within the target radius.
* Via injury inflicted by any humanlike pawn. Chance is controlled by the animal's "Manhunter Chance", the [[hunting stealth]] of the injuring pawn, and the distance between the pawn and the animal. Affects the injured animal, and in the case of certain herd animals, any nearby animals of the same species.
* Via a failed taming attempt angering the animal. Chance is controlled by the animal's "Manhunter Chance (Taming)". Affects the targeted wild animal.{{Check Tag|Herd?|Can this trigger herd revenge as well?}}
* Via the death of their [[bond]]ed master.{{Check Tag|Chance?}} Affects any tamed and bonded animal

An animal's manhunting rampage will end after a certain amount of time, upon the animal sleeping, or once [[downed]].

Manhunter animals with [[Scaria]] can not be [[tame]]d without first curing them. Attempts to [[prioritize]] the taming task will result instead in a hint saying ''Animal busy''.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.3 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|10000}} 

=== Manhunter Permanent ===
Permanent manhunter is randomly applied to animals that are part of a [[manhunter pack]]. Affected animals will never snap out of this mental state under normal circumstances, and completely neglect their own needs. Animals in this state will generally leave the area within a few days.

Some manhunter animals, such as [[boomrat]]s, will typically starve to death due to their hunger rate combined with the typical manhunter animal duration.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|99999999}} 

=== Roaming ===
Introduced in 1.3, farm animals (animal species that cannot be controlled via zones) can randomly get this mental break if they are outside of an enclosed pen. This can cause them to leave the map if not roped in immediately. If they are enclosed in a pen, or if they are roped in by a colonist after a valid pen is placed, this mental break will immediately end.

This does not occur on maps where they have recently been brought in, or on maps the other colonist are raiding in.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|99999999}} 

=== Berserk (short) ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
A shorter variation of the berserk break that occurs due to buildup of [[Blood rain|blood rage]]. Functions identically to its classic variant.

:'''Mean time between Recovery:''' 0.166 days 
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|10000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|15000}} 

=== Manhunter (blood rain) ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
A variation of the manhunter mental state that occurs due to buildup of [[Blood rain|blood rage]]. Functions identically to its classic variant.

Whilst it eventually comes to an end after the blood rain comes to an end, it will not stop whilst the afflicted animal goes to sleep, is downed, or collapses due to extreme exhaustion.
:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|15000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|30000}} 

=== Cube sculpting ===
{{Anomaly|section=1}}
Randomly happens in pawns with an interest in the [[Golden cube]], where they will build a sculpture on the ground in the shape of a cube. This may be made of sand, dirt, or miscellaneous scrap, depending on the surface. The break will then immediately end.

It is important to mention that these sculptures are affected by [[quality]], therefore a pawn with an Inspired Creativity [[mental inspiration]] may use their inspiration on a cube sculpture.

:'''Minimum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|20000}} 
:'''Maximum time until Recovery:''' {{Ticks|35000}} 

== Tips ==
* [[Arrest]]ed [[prisoner]]s and [[prison]]s are more expensive than random damage of most mental breaks, imprisoning is usually more worth it if the mental break needs to end quickly such as during raids and when something needs to be dealt with immediately.
* Pawns during a mental break are immune to damage from [[Unnatural darkness]]{{AnomalyIcon}}, however once the mental break ends this immunity subsequently ends as well.
* [[Wimp]]s are easier to deal with during their mental breaks if avoiding imprisonment, because the lower pain shock threshold makes them be downed with less injury. The [[extra pain]] gene{{BiotechIcon}} can be installed on pawns to add the trait.
* Pawns with [[artificial body parts]] that are subject to [[brain shock]] can be easily, safely, and instantly downed upon any exposure to [[EMP]]. Note that as of the time of writing, the only parts that apply this effect are from the [[Royalty]] DLC.

== Version history ==
* [[Version/0.3.410|0.3.410]] - Mental break probability is much lower.
* [[Version/0.9.722|0.9.722]] - Binge mental break added
* [[Version/0.12.906|0.12.906]] - Dazed broken pawns will now randomly strip off clothes and drop things.
* [[Version/0.14.1234|0.14.1234]] - Added new class of “minor” mental breaks. Added minor mental break: food binge.
* [[Version/0.18.1722|0.18.1722]] - Added the following mental breaks: Insulting spree, Targeted insulting spree, Tantrum, Bedroom tantrum, Targeted tantrum, Sadistic rage, Corpse obsession, Catatonia, Jailbreaker, Slaughterer, Murderous rage, Run wild.
* Beta 19/ 1.0 - Overhauled mental break probabilities. Aside from some exceptional cases, all mental breaks are more or less equally probable.
* 1.1 - the way the different mental break thresholds were calculated was changed. Previously the major break thresholds and minor break thresholds were locked to base threshold + 15% and +30% respectively, with the base threshold at 5% for normal pawns; as a result, the mental break thresholds could be reduced by a maximum of 4% only, leading to the Iron-willed and Steadfast [[traits]] being weaker than expected.
* [[Version/1.2.2753|1.2.2753]] - Disable corpse obsession break for prisoners, as it's very unlikely to happen and is not implemented around this possibility.
* [[Version/1.3.3066|1.3.3066]] - Fix: During food binges, sometimes pawns will use recreational drugs.
* [[Version/1.4.3542|1.4.3542]] - Fix: Quest lodgers can do the "give up and exit" mental break.
* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] - Fix: Bloodfeed can be used on pawns in mental states.

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Unnatural darkness

2025-07-14T06:32:06Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Anomaly}}
{{Spoiler}}
{{Stub|reason=needs more exact information, page mostly copied from [[Noctolith]]}}

'''Unnatural darkness''' is an event added by the [[Anomaly DLC]]. After a short warning, all unlit tiles in the map will become shrouded in near-total darkness and lingering within it will cause damage to human pawns. This damage can occur indoors and under roofs.

== Summary ==
{{Rewrite|section=1|reason=Only non-mentally broken colonists are affected by the damage in the darkness - NPCs (friendly or enemy) and pawns on mental breaks they not be harmed (note: event suppresses many other events so only NPC fact rarely relevant). Unknown if NPCs affected by mood penalty. Unknown raider immunity is bug or intended. Note: if mental break pawn recovers in dark, can then die. If animals (tamed &/or wild) and player mechanoids, immune, make specific note. Wb downed pawns?}}
When the event begins, the map will gradually grow dark no matter the time of day. However, this is only the first phase. Several hours after it reaches the equivalent of standard nightfall, all colonists without [[inhumanized]] will receive a {{Thought|desc=I am suffocated under a blanket of darkness.|label=Unnatural Darkness|value=-5|stack=1}} while those that are get a {{Thought|desc=The truth finally comes and swallows this false world.|label=Unnatural Sky|value=+5|stack=1}}{{Check Tag|Verify|Data was gathered from the xml file and checking the thoughtworker class but not actually tested in-game}}
and several [[Noctolith|Noctoliths]] will appear at random locations and the map will be rapidly covered in darkness, rendering objects which are not within range of a light source difficult to see.

Any pawn that spends time within these dark areas will have a {{Thought|desc=The darkness is suffocating. I can't see or think!|label=Swallowed by darkness|value=-10|stack=1}} and risks being randomly injured by an unspecified claw attack, inflicting sharp damage and bleeding. These attacks do not originate from any particular entity, and are instead inflicted by the darkness itself. A light level of at least 1% is sufficient for preventing this. Throughout the event, [[Noctol]] raids are triggered, spawning them in any unlit areas. However, Noctols are significantly weaker if exposed to any amount of light, suffering {{bad|+15%}} pain, {{bad|+200%}} melee cooldown, and {{bad|-50%}} movement speed. As such, it is important to keep one's colony well-lit to keep the Noctol attacks manageable. The damage and mood the darkness inflicts is entirely unaffected by ideology,{{IdeologyIcon}} [[Dark vision|genes]],{{BiotechIcon}} and [[Traits]].

The Noctoliths that spawn do not take any direct action against you, but the only way to end the darkness early is to destroy them all. However, when attacked, a Noctolith will summon a group of Noctols to defend itself. These noctols can spawn in the light but they will prefer to spawn in the dark. A spot is selected that is the darkest and they will spawn in a large circle around that point. Doors tend to attract spawns as they have a lower light level than the rooms surrounding them. If you can endure several days of being sieged, you can simply wait it out. Within 6-8 days, the Unnatural darkness passes naturally.

[[Lightning]] and [[Orbital power beam targeter|orbital power beam]] can still lit entire map for the duration they exist.

== Analysis ==
The Unnatural Darkness event can be an enormous pain if encountered in early game. The random damage dealt to pawns that wander outside lit areas can be debilitating or even deadly if endured long enough, and the Noctols which periodically raid the player pose a significant threat. It is important to note that most other events may still occur during this time: for example, there is nothing stopping a Pit Gate from spawning during a Noctol raid. [[Solar flare]]s specifically are disallowed from occurring during the unnatural darkness.<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/684960023020961812/1237171445394706463/1237172553467039806 Dev comment on a bug report] "Cynapse — 05/06/2024 3:42 PM
Unnatural darkness overrides a solar flare"</ref> {{Check Tag|Others?|Are any other events disallowed during UD?}} and the weather would be forced to clear disabling [[rain|firewatch]] While it is entirely possible to wait out the event, relying on your food stocks and well-lit fortifications to fend off the Noctols, you increase the chance of disaster if you allow the event to last longer than it needs to. Unnatural darkness can be especially dangerous if you rely on outdoor farming or [[solar generator]]s, neither of which will function without light. [[Sun lamp]]s, [[hydroponics basin]]s can overcome this limitation while [[nutrifungus]]{{IdeologyIcon}} can still be farmed but only safely by [[agrihand]]s {{BiotechIcon}} as a less power intensive solution, but ideally you should have several days' worth of food stocked regardless.

Although it will likely be too late to fix if one is surprised by this event, keeping one's base well-lit is a live-saving preventative measure, as it both prevents the spawning of Noctoliths inside the base, and ensures that the Noctols will be weakened when they approach. It could be theoretically advantageous for a Noctolith to spawn within one's base as it drastically shortens the journey required to reach and destroy it, but because the spawn locations are unpredictable, this strategy is not recommended.

Keeping pawns from wandering is crucial if you want to avoid needless deaths. Consider adjusting work priorities to keep your pawns inside, researching and cleaning rather than going outdoors. They might not enjoy these tasks, but it's far safer. Another option is to assign areas and restrict your pawns to these safe zones. Alternatively, you can attempt to destroy the Noctoliths. This is risky, but can significantly hasten the end of the event and rewards you with [[shard]]s.

[[Flood light]] is a powerful tool to deal with this event. They illuminate a large area, slowing the Noctols and intensifying their light exposure before they reach your pawns. They can also be used with batteries to create a path to the Noctoliths; you can reinstall the light from the back of your path to the front to reduce the number of lights needed. It's also useful to have a flood light at the Noctolith to expose attacking Noctols when you damage it.

Alternatively, sending out teams of builders to create a path of torches is sufficient to reach a Noctolith safely. Managing haulers to bring wood to the front line as it creeps forward can speed up the process significantly. Even faster is to use [[disruptor flare]]s or the [[solar pinhole]] psycast{{RoyaltyIcon}} to quickly create a path. A riskier but admittedly quick option is to command a pawn armed with [[molotov cocktail]]s or other incendiary weapons to start fires by targeting the Noctolith from a distance. Noctol raids will almost certainly occur while you travel, but a crew of well-armed pawns can easily shoot down single Noctols before they can enter melee range, even in darkness. Noctol raids announce the direction they will come from as soon as they spawn, allowing you to retreat to a well-lit part of the map and give yourself even more of an advantage.

Also remember that you don't need to travel all the way to a Noctolith to destroy it. Pawns with long range guns like the [[bolt-action rifle]] or [[sniper rifle]] can pick away at them from a distance in relative safety. Alternatively, [[mortar]]s can very effectively destroy a Noctolith without leaving a base with about 5 hits from [[high-explosive shell]]s, though the cost of doing so should be evaluated: the ammunition cost and mortar deterioration will likely be much higher than 5 shots per Noctolith due to missed shots. Even so, the relative safety of this option makes it worth considering for late-game colonies which can afford to spend the resources. In addition, as the Noctoliths themselves generate several tiles of light, a [[ghoul]] can be sent through moderate stretches of darkness to deal with it in melee. It can regenerate the damage from any hits the darkness delivers, and once it arrives at the Noctolith, it can gradually punch the structure to rubble in relative safety. Alternately, a melee pawn with fast movement speed, the skip psycast, or a jetpack can sprint through the darkness and rapidly tear down a noctolith, especially if they're wielding a breach axe for the extra building damage. Consider sending them immediately after finishing a wave of enemies to reduce the chances of them getting isolated and surrounded by a fresh wave of Noctols.

If you lit up the entire map except for one tile, the Noctols are guaranteed to spawn on it which you can take advantage.

== Anomaly Endgame ==
In addition to spawning as a unique event, Unnatural darkness will also occur once the [[Void monolith]] is awakened. In this case, the darkness requires defeating two waves of [[Void structure]]s rather than Noctoliths, but the darkness' damage mechanics remain the same.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Unnatural darkness message 1.png|The first message that appears once the Unnatural darkness incident has occurred, advising the use of light sources
Unnatural darkness message 2.png|The second unnatural darkness message warning of the impending danger
Unnatural darkness message 3.png|The third unnatural darkness message marking the appearance of noctoliths
Unnatural darkness message 5.png|This message preempts a noctol raid. It will be triggered either naturally by time progressing or if a noctolith is severely damaged (under 25% hp)
Unnatural darkness message 6.png|Message received after the first noctolith is destroyed during an unnatural darkness
Unnatural darkness message 7.png|The message received when the final noctolith is destroyed and the unnatural darkness incident is over
Unnatural darkness message 8.png|The message received when the unnatural darkness incident naturally runs it's course and ends (i.e the noctolith aren't destroyed)
Unnatural darkness message 4.png|The message which appears when a colonist takes damage by being outside in Unnatural darkness
Unnatural darkness starting.png|The beginnings of the unnatural darkness. At this early stage the darkness is unremarkable and typical of night
Unnatural darkness fully dark.png|Unnatural darkness which has progressed to it's final state of darkness. It is much darker than a standard night and there are black particles falling
Unnatural darkness particles.png|Close of up the falling particles
Unnatural darkness damage.png|Example of ambient damage taken by standing in unnatural darkness. This is the cumulative damage of three separate "attacks"
Unnatural darkness noctolith all.png|All three noctoliths during an unnatural darkness. Note that they provide a small amount of light as does the anima tree
Unnatural darkness noctolith.png|Example of the faint light given off by a noctolith during an unnatural darkness
Unnatural darkness noctolith torches.png|Using a chain of torches to provide a lit path to a noctolith during an unnatural darkness
Unnatural darkness noctol attack eyes.png|Noctol eyes glowing in the dark as it approaches a colonist
Unnatural darkness noctol pet.png|Noctol attacking an unzoned pet during an unnatural darkness raid. In this instance, the dog was able to down the noctol in a single scratch to it's left leg
Unnatural darkness noctol raid.png|Noctol raid during unnatural darkness breaching the wall after having destroyed all the torches outside. The torches are destroyed not because they generate light but because they are furniture that the noctol can immediately path to upon spawning
Unnatural darkness gone.png|Example of light levels after the unnatural darkness has lifted by destroying all three noctoliths
</gallery>

== Version history ==
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Added.

== References ==
<references />

Gravlite panel

2025-07-14T01:34:01Z

Siiftun1857:

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| name = Gravlite panel
| image = GravlitePanels_c.png
| description = A sheet of advanced polymer used in the construction of gravships. It's lightweight and has a high graviton conductance, making it ideal for gravtech structures. Requires vacstone blocks, which can be obtained from orbital asteroids.
| type =
| type2 =
| tech level = Spacer
| hp = 100
| production facility 1 = Fabrication bench
| research = Advanced gravtech
| work to make = 1800
| work speed stat = General Labor Speed
| resource 1 = Plasteel
| resource 1 amount = 1
| resource 2 = Vacstone blocks
| resource 2 amount = 5
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| skill 1 level = 8
| marketvalue = 4
| mass base = 0.25
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== Acquisition ==
{{Acquisition}}

== Summary ==
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== Analysis ==
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== Gallery ==
<gallery>
GravlitePanels_a.png|One gravlite panel
GravlitePanels_b.png|Partial stack
GravlitePanels_c.png|Full stack
</gallery>

== Version history ==

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Gravlite panel

2025-07-14T01:32:29Z

Siiftun1857:

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|type=warning
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| name = Gravlite panel
| image = GravlitePanels_c.png
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| type =
| type2 =
| tech level = Spacer
| hp = 100
| production facility 1 = Fabrication bench
| research = Advanced gravtech
| work to make = 1800
| work speed stat = General Labor Speed
| resource 1 = Plasteel
| resource 1 amount = 1
| resource 2 = 5
| resource 2 amount = Vacstone blocks
| resource 3 =
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| skill 1 = Crafting
| skill 1 level = 8
| marketvalue = 4
| mass base = 0.25
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== Acquisition ==
{{Acquisition}}

== Summary ==
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== Analysis ==
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== Gallery ==
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The '''cerebrex node''' is a [[utility]] item added by the [[Odyssey DLC]] that acquired by choosing "scavenge technology" during [[Endings#The Mechhive|Odyssey ending]].

== Acquisition ==
One cerebrex node drop next to the [[cerebrex core]] after inspect it and choosing "scavenge technology".

== Summary ==
When worn, it gives a [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} wearing it {{+|15}} [[Mech Bandwidth]] and {{+|12%}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]]. It has no [[quality]].

Once the wearer is [[draft]]ed, three abilities are available, all with {{Ticks|30}} warm up time.
* '''Call drop pods''' can spawn 2 to 3 mechanoid [[drop pod]]s, each can hold up to 150 kg and can be launched up to 66 tiles, on a {{Ticks|180000}} cooldown.
* '''Call mechanoids''' can spawn 750 to 1250 [[raid points]] of hostile mechanoids, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
* '''Deactivate mechanoid''' can permanently disable a hostile mechanoid within 29.9 tiles, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
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CallDropPods.png|Call drop pods
CallMechanoids.png|Call mechanoids
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The cerebrex node is undestroyable, including by [[collapsed rocks]]. However the cerebrex node can be lost if it is on a pawn or in a container and the containing thing is destroyed, by thrown out of the map, or [[caravan]] wipe.

{{Utility Note}}

== Analysis ==
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== Version history ==
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Added.

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{{Rewrite|reason = Link to or otherwise subsume the quest entries for these. Inadequate detail}}
While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 5 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}
* [[#The Mechhive|Storming the mechhive]] {{OdysseyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
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= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by many [[raid]]s. The Ship Startup event will have 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Ship Launch raids during the event 10 and the maximum 20. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. The Ship Launch raids have a minimum of 500 [[Raid points]].
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists. Only one loaded casket is required to launch the ship.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{icon small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{icon small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{icon small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{icon small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{icon small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{icon small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{icon small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Archon|Archon]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
The onslaught of raids will consist of 8 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Royal Ascent raids during the event 8 and the maximum 16. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your storyteller, who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. Royal Ascent raids have a minimum of 500 Raid points.
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't targeted any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[word of joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, word of joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]]. If no factions are available to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
** Analysis of [[signal chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} is not undone by the [[research]] reset.

* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The [[Production specialist]] role is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With the right combination of [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{icon small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, severely limit the number selected.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other 2 endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Specifics ==
===Stage 1===
Other major threats cannot occur during the Anomaly endgame event. There will not be standard raids, infestation nor other major threats, nor threats sent by quests and even the ship launch will not occur.

After activating the monolith the precursor to [[Unnatural darkness]] will occur. The map will be devoid of sunlight perpetually. The map will not become overwhelmingly dark and there will not threats hidden in dark areas of the map. Colonists will not take damage when they wander into unlit areas.

Two [[Void structure]]s will land on the map and [[Metalhorror]]s will appear with them.

A [[Fleshbeast attack]] event will occur.

Wandering singular [[Noctol]]s and [[Gorehulk]]s will appear from the map's edge in very low numbers. If these wandering entities are killed another will wander in from the map's edge. The map will constantly have low numbers of singular wandering entities.

Activating the two [[Void structure]]s is required to progress to the next stage. After activating either Void structure, an attack of assorted entities will appear from the map's edge. The attacks may consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, or Devourers.

===Stage 2===
After activating the second Void structure, there will be a 2 day delay until the beginning of the second stage. Notification of Dimming Sky will be given via a yellow letter.

Singular Noctol and Gorehulk wanderers will still continuously patrol about the map and new entities will be spawned if any are killed.

After the two day wait, three [[Void structure]]s will appear on the map and be accompanied by [[Metalhorror]]s.

The sky will dim into full [[Unnatural darkness]]. Any colonist in a dark area will be damaged by mysterious entities.

Activating any of the three Void structures will cause entity attacks from the map's edge. These entity attacks can consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, Devourers, Sightstealers or Noctols.

Once all 3 Void structures are activated the Monolith will begin to twist. After 4 hours, the "twisting" of the monolith will intensify, Metallhorrors will appear around the monolith, and the monolith will become a portal to Metalhell. Activating the Monolith one last time will send one colonist to Metalhell and allow the player to end the event.

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choosing an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutter, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already has charges from other sources, such as the [[Psychic rituals#Imbue death refusal|imbue death refusal]] psychic ritual, the total is still set to 4 charges and any additional charges are simply lost.
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undone by a [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= The Mechhive =
{{Odyssey|section=1}}
{{stub|section=1}}
== The Gravship ==
The Gravship quest appears once you have a [[grav engine]]. You will get its sub-quests overtime as the grav engine passively scans for nearby gravship technology.

For the Mechhive sub-quest to appear, 7 other sub-quests is needed. Once the [[Mechhive]] is located, a [[gravship]] with [[signal jammer]] is the only mandatory criterion - though you will need more to be prepared to survive there.

== Entering the Mechhive ==
The mechhive is a huge map with large amount of rooms contains loot crates, dormant [[mechanoid]]s and spawners, and turrets. All of buildings are made of [[fortified wall]]s, making breaching extremely hard but not impossible. Once you arrived at the mechhive, the [[cerebrex core]] is immediate visible, but it is protected by [[cerebrex stabilizer]]s hidden and scatter amoung the map, which makes the cerebrex core invulnerable.

For each cerebrex stabilizer, when it is damaged for the first time, it calls mechanoid drops on the map that attack your grav ship.

Once all cerebrex stabilizer are destroyed, move the colonist over to inspect the cerebrex core, which takes 15 seconds, and then you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

== Ending - Destroy the core ==
{{Quote|(name) begins to tear apart the hair-thin cerebral mesh inside the cerebrex core. The mesh twists and groans, as if alive. Electricity arcs among the latticework frame - then in an instant, all goes dark and lifeless. The mechanoid whirring stops. Here, and all across the planet, mechanoids begin to permanently deactivate, no longer under the control of the mechhive. '''The mechanoid threat is over.''' But your story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm destroy the core, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 30 days.
* [[Mechanoid hive]] is deactivated, all mechanoids and buildings of it are stop functions.
** Those spawned later, such as by [[orbital mech cluster targeter]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, and [[Mechanitor]]s'{{BiotechIcon}} mechanoid that go feral, are also deactivated upon spawn.
** Mechanoid raids and [[mechanoid cluster]]s events are ceased.
** [[Mechanitor]]s{{BiotechIcon}} can no longer summon mechanoid commanders raids.
** Friendly mechanoids{{BiotechIcon}} continue to function, new mechanoids can still be gestated.
** As a consequences of hostile mechanoids ceased, new [[signal chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]{{BiotechIcon}} and [[nano structuring chip]]{{BiotechIcon}} cannot be acquired.
* The cerebrex core becomes [[destroyed cerebrex core]] and can be destroyed for 8 [[steel slag chunk]]s, 300 [[plasteel]]s, 5 [[advanced component]]s and 1 [[persona core]].

{{Quote|By destroying the cerebrex core, (name) has deactivated mechanoids across the planet. The mechanoid threat is over.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

== Ending - Scavenge technology ==
{{Quote|(name) begins working to free a processing node buried within the core. The latticework frame convulses as if in agony. As (name) pulls the node free, the mesh begins to mend, repairing the damage. The core rebuilds its defences and closes. Turning the node over, (name) recoils as it sparks to life, pulsing in time with the core. '''In his/her hand, (name) holds a weapon of untold power.''' The story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm scavenge technology, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, a [[cerebrex node]] drop next to the cerebrex core, and the cerebrex core remains invulnerable.

{{Quote|The scavenged node from the cerebrex core lies nearby. It responds strongly to the core, clearly still linked to it. Equip the node to a colonist to make use of it.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.

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While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 5 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}
* [[#The Mechhive|Storming the mechhive]] {{OdysseyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
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= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by many [[raid]]s. The Ship Startup event will have 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Ship Launch raids during the event 10 and the maximum 20. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. The Ship Launch raids have a minimum of 500 [[Raid points]].
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists. Only one loaded casket is required to launch the ship.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{icon small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{icon small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{icon small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{icon small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{icon small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{icon small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{icon small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Archon|Archon]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
The onslaught of raids will consist of 8 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Royal Ascent raids during the event 8 and the maximum 16. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your storyteller, who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. Royal Ascent raids have a minimum of 500 Raid points.
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't targeted any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[word of joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, word of joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]]. If no factions are available to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
** Analysis of [[signal chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} is not undone by the [[research]] reset.

* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The [[Production specialist]] role is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With the right combination of [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{icon small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, severely limit the number selected.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other 2 endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Specifics ==
===Stage 1===
Other major threats cannot occur during the Anomaly endgame event. There will not be standard raids, infestation nor other major threats, nor threats sent by quests and even the ship launch will not occur.

After activating the monolith the precursor to [[Unnatural darkness]] will occur. The map will be devoid of sunlight perpetually. The map will not become overwhelmingly dark and there will not threats hidden in dark areas of the map. Colonists will not take damage when they wander into unlit areas.

Two [[Void structure]]s will land on the map and [[Metalhorror]]s will appear with them.

A [[Fleshbeast attack]] event will occur.

Wandering singular [[Noctol]]s and [[Gorehulk]]s will appear from the map's edge in very low numbers. If these wandering entities are killed another will wander in from the map's edge. The map will constantly have low numbers of singular wandering entities.

Activating the two [[Void structure]]s is required to progress to the next stage. After activating either Void structure, an attack of assorted entities will appear from the map's edge. The attacks may consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, or Devourers.

===Stage 2===
After activating the second Void structure, there will be a 2 day delay until the beginning of the second stage. Notification of Dimming Sky will be given via a yellow letter.

Singular Noctol and Gorehulk wanderers will still continuously patrol about the map and new entities will be spawned if any are killed.

After the two day wait, three [[Void structure]]s will appear on the map and be accompanied by [[Metalhorror]]s.

The sky will dim into full [[Unnatural darkness]]. Any colonist in a dark area will be damaged by mysterious entities.

Activating any of the three Void structures will cause entity attacks from the map's edge. These entity attacks can consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, Devourers, Sightstealers or Noctols.

Once all 3 Void structures are activated the Monolith will begin to twist. After 4 hours, the "twisting" of the monolith will intensify, Metallhorrors will appear around the monolith, and the monolith will become a portal to Metalhell. Activating the Monolith one last time will send one colonist to Metalhell and allow the player to end the event.

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choosing an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutter, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already has charges from other sources, such as the [[Psychic rituals#Imbue death refusal|imbue death refusal]] psychic ritual, the total is still set to 4 charges and any additional charges are simply lost.
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undone by a [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= The Mechhive =
{{Odyssey|section=1}}
{{stub|section=1}}
== The Gravship ==
The Gravship quest appears once you have a [[grav engine]]. You will get its sub-quests overtime as the grav engine passively scans for nearby gravship technology.

For the Mechhive sub-quest to appear, 7 other sub-quests is needed. Once the [[Mechhive]] is located, a [[gravship]] with [[signal jammer]] is the only mandatory criterion - though you will need more to be prepared to survive there.

== Entering the Mechhive ==
The mechhive is a huge map with large amount of rooms contains loot crates, dormant [[mechanoid]]s and spawners, and turrets. All of buildings are made of [[fortified wall]]s, making breaching extremely hard but not impossible. Once you arrived at the mechhive, the [[cerebrex core]] is immediate visible, but it is protected by [[cerebrex stabilizer]]s hidden and scatter amoung the map, which makes the cerebrex core invulnerable.

For each cerebrex stabilizer, when it is damaged for the first time, it calls mechanoid drops on the map that attack your grav ship.

Once all cerebrex stabilizer are destroyed, move the colonist over to inspect the cerebrex core, which takes 15 seconds, and then you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

== Ending - Destroy the core ==
{{Quote|(name) begins to tear apart the hair-thin cerebral mesh inside the cerebrex core. The mesh twists and groans, as if alive. Electricity arcs among the latticework frame - then in an instant, all goes dark and lifeless. The mechanoid whirring stops. Here, and all across the planet, mechanoids begin to permanently deactivate, no longer under the control of the mechhive. '''The mechanoid threat is over.''' But your story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm destroy the core, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 30 days.
* [[Mechanoid hive]] is deactivated, all mechanoids and buildings of it are stop functions.
** Those spawned later, such as by [[orbital mech cluster targeter]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, and [[Mechanitor]]s'{{BiotechIcon}} mechanoid that go feral, are also deactivated upon spawn.
** Mechanoid raids and [[mechanoid cluster]]s events are ceased.
** [[Mechanitor]]s{{BiotechIcon}} can no longer summon mechanoid commanders raids.
** Friendly mechanoids{{BiotechIcon}} continue to function, new mechanoids can still be gestated.
** As a consequences of hostile mechanoids ceased, new [[signal chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]{{BiotechIcon}} and [[nano structuring chip]]{{BiotechIcon}} cannot be acquired.
* The cerebrex core becomes [[destroyed cerebrex core]] and can be destroyed for 8 [[steel slag chunk]]s, 300 [[plasteel]]s, 5 [[advanced component]]s and 1 [[persona core]].

{{Quote|By destroying the cerebrex core, (name) has deactivated mechanoids across the planet. The mechanoid threat is over.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

== Ending - Scavenge technology ==
{{Quote|(name) begins working to free a processing node buried within the core. The latticework frame convulses as if in agony. As (name) pulls the node free, the mesh begins to mend, repairing the damage. The core rebuilds its defences and closes. Turning the node over, (name) recoils as it sparks to life, pulsing in time with the core. '''In his/her hand, (name) holds a weapon of untold power.''' The story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm scavenge technology, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, a [[cerebrex node]] drop around the cerebrex core, and the cerebrex core remains invulnerable.

{{Quote|The scavenged node from the cerebrex core lies nearby. It responds strongly to the core, clearly still linked to it. Equip the node to a colonist to make use of it.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.

[[Category:Game mechanics]] [[Category:Guides]]

Cerebrex node

2025-07-13T21:22:46Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Odyssey}}
{{Spoiler}}
{{infobox main
| name = Cerebrex node
| image = Cerebrex node.png
| description = An interlink node scavenged technology from the cerebrex core of a mechhive. It can be used to summon mechanoids or mechanoid transport pods from the planet-wide mechanoid satellite network.
| type = Gear
| type2 = Utility
| tech level = Spacer
| smeltable = False
| market value = 5000
| mass base = 5
| flammability = 0
| lifestage = Adult
| clothing for nudity = False
| coverage = Waist
| layer = Belt
| thingCategories = ApparelUtility
| tradeTags = Clothing
| defaultOutfitTags =
| destroyable = False
| defName = Apparel_CerebrexNode
| page verified for version = 1.6.4518
}}
The '''cerebrex node''' is a [[utility]] item added by the [[Odyssey DLC]] that acquired by choosing "scavenge technology" during [[Endings#The Mechhive|Odyssey ending]].

== Acquisition ==
One cerebrex node drop around the [[cerebrex core]] after inspect it and choosing "scavenge technology".

== Summary ==
When worn, it gives a [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} wearing it {{+|15}} [[Mech Bandwidth]] and {{+|12%}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]]. It has no [[quality]].

Once the wearer is [[draft]]ed, three abilities are available, all with {{Ticks|30}} warm up time.
* '''Call drop pods''' can spawn 2 to 3 mechanoid [[drop pod]]s, each can hold up to 150 kg and can be launched up to 66 tiles, on a {{Ticks|180000}} cooldown.
* '''Call mechanoids''' can spawn 750 to 1250 [[raid points]] of hostile mechanoids, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
* '''Deactivate mechanoid''' can permanently disable a hostile mechanoid within 29.9 tiles, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
<gallery widths="64px" heights="64px">
CallDropPods.png|Call drop pods
CallMechanoids.png|Call mechanoids
DeactivateMechanoid.png|Deactivate mechanoid
</gallery>

The cerebrex node is undestroyable, including by [[collapsed rocks]]. However if the cerebrex node can be lost if it is on a pawn or in a container and the containing thing is destroyed, by thrown out of the map, or [[caravan]] wipe.

{{Utility Note}}

== Analysis ==
{{Stub|section=1|reason=imcomplete}}

== Version history ==
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Added.

{{nav|utility|wide}}
[[Category: Utility]]

Cerebrex node

2025-07-13T21:20:17Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Odyssey}}
{{Spoiler}}
{{infobox main
| name = Cerebrex node
| image = Cerebrex node.png
| description = An interlink node scavenged technology from the cerebrex core of a mechhive. It can be used to summon mechanoids or mechanoid transport pods from the planet-wide mechanoid satellite network.
| type = Gear
| type2 = Utility
| tech level = Spacer
| smeltable = False
| market value = 5000
| mass base = 5
| flammability = 0
| lifestage = Adult
| clothing for nudity = False
| coverage = Waist
| layer = Belt
| thingCategories = ApparelUtility
| tradeTags = Clothing
| defaultOutfitTags =
| destroyable = False
| defName = Apparel_CerebrexNode
| page verified for version = 1.6.4518
}}
The '''cerebrex node''' is a [[utility]] item added by the [[Odyssey DLC]] that acquired by choosing "scavenge technology" during [[Endings#The Mechhive|Odyssey ending]].

== Acquisition ==
One cerebrex node drop around the [[cerebrex core]] after inspect it and choosing "scavenge technology".

== Summary ==
When worn, it gives a [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} wearing it {{+|15}} [[Mech Bandwidth]] and {{+|12%}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]]. It has no [[quality]].

Once the wearer is [[draft]]ed, three abilities are available, all with {{Ticks|30}} warm up time.
* '''Call drop pods''' can spawn 2 to 3 mechanoid [[drop pod]]s, each can hold up to 150 kg and can be launched up to 66 tiles, on a {{Ticks|180000}} cooldown.
* '''Call mechanoids''' can spawn 750 to 1250 [[raid points]] of hostile mechanoids, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
* '''Deactivate mechanoid''' can permanently disable a hostile mechanoid within 29.9 tiles, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
<gallery widths="64px" heights="64px">
CallDropPods.png|Call drop pods
CallMechanoids.png|Call mechanoids
DeactivateMechanoid.png|Deactivate mechanoid
</gallery>

The cerebrex node is undestroyable, including by [[collapsed rocks]]. However if the cerebrex node is on a pawn or in a container, it will be lost if the containing thing is destroyed; it can also lost by thrown out of the map or [[caravan]] wipe.

{{Utility Note}}

== Analysis ==
{{Stub|section=1|reason=imcomplete}}

== Version history ==
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Added.

{{nav|utility|wide}}
[[Category: Utility]]

Cerebrex node

2025-07-13T21:19:50Z

Siiftun1857: destroyable=false means not even collapsed rocks can destroy it

{{Odyssey}}
{{Spoiler}}
{{infobox main
| name = Cerebrex node
| image = Cerebrex node.png
| description = An interlink node scavenged technology from the cerebrex core of a mechhive. It can be used to summon mechanoids or mechanoid transport pods from the planet-wide mechanoid satellite network.
| type = Gear
| type2 = Utility
| tech level = Spacer
| smeltable = False
| market value = 5000
| mass base = 5
| flammability = 0
| lifestage = Adult
| clothing for nudity = False
| coverage = Waist
| layer = Belt
| thingCategories = ApparelUtility
| tradeTags = Clothing
| defaultOutfitTags =
| destroyable = False
| defName = Apparel_CerebrexNode
| page verified for version = 1.6.4518
}}
The '''cerebrex node''' is a [[utility]] item added by the [[Odyssey DLC]] that acquired by choosing "scavenge technology" during [[Endings#The Mechhive|Odyssey ending]].

== Acquisition ==
One cerebrex node drop around the [[cerebrex core]] after inspect it and choosing "scavenge technology".

== Summary ==
When worn, it gives a [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} wearing it {{+|15}} [[Mech Bandwidth]] and {{+|12%}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]].

Once the wearer is [[draft]]ed, three abilities are available, all with {{Ticks|30}} warm up time.
* '''Call drop pods''' can spawn 2 to 3 mechanoid [[drop pod]]s, each can hold up to 150 kg and can be launched up to 66 tiles, on a {{Ticks|180000}} cooldown.
* '''Call mechanoids''' can spawn 750 to 1250 [[raid points]] of hostile mechanoids, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
* '''Deactivate mechanoid''' can permanently disable a hostile mechanoid within 29.9 tiles, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
<gallery widths="64px" heights="64px">
CallDropPods.png|Call drop pods
CallMechanoids.png|Call mechanoids
DeactivateMechanoid.png|Deactivate mechanoid
</gallery>

The cerebrex node has no [[quality]] and is undestroyable, including by [[collapsed rocks]]. However if the cerebrex node is on a pawn or in a container, it will be lost if the containing thing is destroyed; it can also lost by thrown out of the map or [[caravan]] wipe.

{{Utility Note}}

== Analysis ==
{{Stub|section=1|reason=imcomplete}}

== Version history ==
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Added.

{{nav|utility|wide}}
[[Category: Utility]]

Utility

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'''Utility''' items are items that are not [[Armor]], [[Clothing]] or [[Weapons]], but are still equipped by pawns. They offer a variety of different capabilities. One person can only wear one utility item, however no utility item conflicts with any other apparel, regardless of layer or coverage. Utility items can be passive like a [[shield belt]], but most give an ability the player can trigger. Most have a certain number of charges before they run out. Some can be reloaded, while others are consumed by use. Some of these are only available if specific [[DLC]] is activated.

Unlike [[apparel]], no utility item in the game currently gets [[tainted]] or deteriorates with use, and neither does a damaged item cause the "tattered clothing" [[mood]] debuff, however the provision for all three exists in the game code.
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[[Category:Gear]]

Cerebrex node

2025-07-13T19:19:46Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Odyssey}}
{{Spoiler}}
{{infobox main
| name = Cerebrex node
| image = Cerebrex node.png
| description = An interlink node scavenged technology from the cerebrex core of a mechhive. It can be used to summon mechanoids or mechanoid transport pods from the planet-wide mechanoid satellite network.
| type = Gear
| type2 = Utility
| tech level = Spacer
| smeltable = False
| market value = 5000
| mass base = 5
| flammability = 0
| lifestage = Adult
| clothing for nudity = False
| coverage = Waist
| layer = Belt
| thingCategories = ApparelUtility
| tradeTags = Clothing
| defaultOutfitTags =
| destroyable = False
| defName = Apparel_CerebrexNode
| page verified for version = 1.6.4518
}}
The '''cerebrex node''' is a [[utility]] item added by the [[Odyssey DLC]] that acquired by choosing "scavenge technology" during [[Endings#The Mechhive|Odyssey ending]].

== Acquisition ==
One cerebrex node drop around the [[cerebrex core]] after inspect it and choosing "scavenge technology".

== Summary ==
When worn, it gives a [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} wearing it {{+|15}} [[bandwidth]] and {{+|12%}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]].

Once the wearer is [[draft]]ed, three abilities are available, all with {{Ticks|30}} warm up time.
* '''Call drop pods''' can spawn 2 to 3 mechanoid [[drop pod]]s, each can hold up to 150 kg and can be launched up to 66 tiles, on a {{Ticks|180000}} cooldown.
* '''Call mechanoids''' can spawn 750 to 1250 [[raid points]] of hostile mechanoids, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
* '''Deactivate mechanoid''' can permanently disable a hostile mechanoid within 29.9 tiles, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
<gallery widths="64px" heights="64px">
CallDropPods.png|Call drop pods
CallMechanoids.png|Call mechanoids
DeactivateMechanoid.png|Deactivate mechanoid
</gallery>

The cerebrex node has no [[quality]] and is undestroyable.

{{Utility Note}}
== Analysis ==
{{Stub|section=1|reason=imcomplete}}

== Version history ==
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Added.

{{nav|utility|wide}}
[[Category: Utility]]

Endings

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Siiftun1857:

{{Spoiler}}
{{Rewrite|reason = Link to or otherwise subsume the quest entries for these. Inadequate detail}}
While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 5 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}
* [[#The Mechhive|Storming the mechhive]] {{OdysseyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
{{TOCright}}
= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by many [[raid]]s. The Ship Startup event will have 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Ship Launch raids during the event 10 and the maximum 20. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. The Ship Launch raids have a minimum of 500 [[Raid points]].
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists. Only one loaded casket is required to launch the ship.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{icon small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{icon small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{icon small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{icon small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{icon small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{icon small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{icon small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Archon|Archon]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
The onslaught of raids will consist of 8 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Royal Ascent raids during the event 8 and the maximum 16. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your storyteller, who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. Royal Ascent raids have a minimum of 500 Raid points.
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't targeted any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[word of joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, word of joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]]. If no factions are available to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
** Analysis of [[signal chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, [[powerfocus chip]]{{BiotechIcon}}, and [[nano structuring chip]]s{{BiotechIcon}} is not undone by the [[research]] reset.

* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The [[Production specialist]] role is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With the right combination of [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{icon small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, severely limit the number selected.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other 2 endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Specifics ==
===Stage 1===
Other major threats cannot occur during the Anomaly endgame event. There will not be standard raids, infestation nor other major threats, nor threats sent by quests and even the ship launch will not occur.

After activating the monolith the precursor to [[Unnatural darkness]] will occur. The map will be devoid of sunlight perpetually. The map will not become overwhelmingly dark and there will not threats hidden in dark areas of the map. Colonists will not take damage when they wander into unlit areas.

Two [[Void structure]]s will land on the map and [[Metalhorror]]s will appear with them.

A [[Fleshbeast attack]] event will occur.

Wandering singular [[Noctol]]s and [[Gorehulk]]s will appear from the map's edge in very low numbers. If these wandering entities are killed another will wander in from the map's edge. The map will constantly have low numbers of singular wandering entities.

Activating the two [[Void structure]]s is required to progress to the next stage. After activating either Void structure, an attack of assorted entities will appear from the map's edge. The attacks may consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, or Devourers.

===Stage 2===
After activating the second Void structure, there will be a 2 day delay until the beginning of the second stage. Notification of Dimming Sky will be given via a yellow letter.

Singular Noctol and Gorehulk wanderers will still continuously patrol about the map and new entities will be spawned if any are killed.

After the two day wait, three [[Void structure]]s will appear on the map and be accompanied by [[Metalhorror]]s.

The sky will dim into full [[Unnatural darkness]]. Any colonist in a dark area will be damaged by mysterious entities.

Activating any of the three Void structures will cause entity attacks from the map's edge. These entity attacks can consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, Devourers, Sightstealers or Noctols.

Once all 3 Void structures are activated the Monolith will begin to twist. After 4 hours, the "twisting" of the monolith will intensify, Metallhorrors will appear around the monolith, and the monolith will become a portal to Metalhell. Activating the Monolith one last time will send one colonist to Metalhell and allow the player to end the event.

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choosing an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutter, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already has charges from other sources, such as the [[Psychic rituals#Imbue death refusal|imbue death refusal]] psychic ritual, the total is still set to 4 charges and any additional charges are simply lost.
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undone by a [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= The Mechhive =
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== The Gravship ==
The Gravship quest appears once you have a [[grav engine]]. You will get its sub-quests overtime as the grav engine passively scans for nearby gravship technology.

For the Mechhive sub-quest to appear, 7 other sub-quests is needed. Once the [[Mechhive]] is located, a [[gravship]] with [[signal jammer]] is the only mandatory criterion - though you will need more to be prepared to survive there.

== Entering the Mechhive ==
The mechhive is a huge map with large amount of rooms contains loot crates, dormant [[mechanoid]]s and spawners, and turrets. All of buildings are made of [[fortified wall]]s, making breaching extremely hard but not impossible. Once you arrived at the mechhive, the [[cerebrex core]] is immediate visible, but it is protected by [[cerebrex stabilizer]]s hidden and scatter amoung the map, which makes the cerebrex core invulnerable.

For each cerebrex stabilizer, when it is damaged for the first time, it calls mechanoid drops on the map that attack your grav ship.

Once all cerebrex stabilizer are destroyed, move the colonist over to inspect the cerebrex core, which takes 15 seconds, and then you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

== Ending - Destroy the core ==
{{Quote|(name) begins to tear apart the hair-thin cerebral mesh inside the cerebrex core. The mesh twists and groans, as if alive. Electricity arcs among the latticework frame - then in an instant, all goes dark and lifeless. The mechanoid whirring stops. Here, and all across the planet, mechanoids begin to permanently deactivate, no longer under the control of the mechhive. '''The mechanoid threat is over.''' But your story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm destroy the core, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Destroyed Mechhive''' moodlet for 30 days.
* All mechanoids and buildings belonging to [[Mechanoid hive]] are deactivated, including those spawned later, such as by [[Orbital mech cluster targeter]]. Mechanoid raids and [[Mechanoid cluster]]s are ceased. [[Mechanitor]]s'{{BiotechIcon}} mechanoids are not affected and new mechanoids can still be gestated.
* [[Mechanitor]]s{{BiotechIcon}} can no longer summon mechanoid commanders raids.
* The cerebrex core becomes [[destroyed cerebrex core]] and can be destroyed for 8 [[steel slag chunk]]s, 300 [[plasteel]]s, 5 [[advanced component]]s and 1 [[persona core]].

{{Quote|By destroying the cerebrex core, (name) has deactivated mechanoids across the planet. The mechanoid threat is over.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

== Ending - Scavenge technology ==
{{Quote|(name) begins working to free a processing node buried within the core. The latticework frame convulses as if in agony. As (name) pulls the node free, the mesh begins to mend, repairing the damage. The core rebuilds its defences and closes. Turning the node over, (name) recoils as it sparks to life, pulsing in time with the core. '''In his/her hand, (name) holds a weapon of untold power.''' The story continues...|Endgame text after scavenge technology.}}

Once you confirm scavenge technology, you hear the mechanical sounds of the cerebrex core as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, a [[cerebrex node]] drop around the cerebrex core, and the cerebrex core remains invulnerable.

{{Quote|The scavenged node from the cerebrex core lies nearby. It responds strongly to the core, clearly still linked to it. Equip the node to a colonist to make use of it.|Letter after the credits screen.}}

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.

[[Category:Game mechanics]] [[Category:Guides]]

Ship

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The '''ship''', once fully assembled, will allow the colonists to escape the planet and win the game.

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| [[file:ShipBeam.png|50px|link=Ship structural beam]]
| [[file:ShipCryptosleepCasket.png|75px|link=Ship cryptosleep casket]]
| [[file:Ship computer core.png| 100px|link=Ship computer core]]
| [[file:ShipReactor.png| 100px|link=Ship reactor]]
| [[file:ShipEngine.png| 100px|link=Ship engine]]
| [[file:Sensor cluster.png| 100px|link=Sensor cluster]]
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| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship structural beam]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship cryptosleep casket]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship computer core]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship reactor]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Ship engine]]
| width=100px height=50px | [[Sensor cluster]]
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==Summary==
A working ship must include 3 [[ship engine|engines]] and 1 of each other ship part. Therefore, the absolute minimum amount of supplies needed to create a fully functional ship is as follows:
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* {{icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]]
* {{icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]]
* {{icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]]
* {{icon Small|advanced component||40}} [[advanced component]]
* {{icon Small|component||12}} [[component]]
* {{icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]]
* {{icon small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]]
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Specifically, the ship needs 3 things to launch:
* Have all necessary parts built and connected.
** Any ship part can connect to any other ship part, except for [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s, which must connect to a [[ship structural beam]]. (I.e., beams are ''only'' required for caskets)
* Have the [[ship reactor]] activated. The activation process takes 15 days and will attract constant [[raid]]ers, both human and mechanoid.
* Have at least one ship cryptosleep casket occupied.

The ships launch readiness can be displayed by selecting any ship part and clicking 'Show launch report'. It will either list deficiencies or display 'Ready for launch'. Only one occupied cryptosleep ship casket is necessary for launch, but each colonist or animal you wish to evacuate must have their own casket. Currently, animals have to be carried to caskets while downed. The easiest way to do it is to apply anesthesia on them.

== Analysis ==
=== Obtaining a ship ===
Building the ship requires a lot of materials.
* '''Metals''' - A common way to obtain lots of metal is with a [[ground-penetrating scanner]] (with [[deep drill]]s) or [[long-range mineral scanner]]. Both allow you to mine for an indefinite amount of ore. The long-range scanner can be tuned to a specific material, so if you specifically need a metal like [[uranium]], then the long-range scanner is relatively better.
* '''Advanced components''' - Generally the most difficult resource to acquire. Even if you have the supplies to make them, advanced components take a ''long'' time to craft. Significant numbers can be [[trade]]d for if you have a healthy caravan network. If you are crafting a lot of them, ideally you'd have multiple skilled crafters working at multiple [[fabrication bench]]es with attached [[tool cabinet]]s. If you can afford to craft all these advanced components, you can afford to use multiple benches.
* '''[[Persona core]]''' - The most consistent way of obtaining the persona core is with the [[comms console]].

: Even if you don't get the "Persona Core Offer" notification, you can request a persona core location with any faction with at least +40 [[goodwill]]. The location costs {{icon small|silver}} 1500; [[Money making guide|get cash]], use [[transport pod]]s to raise goodwill (if needed), and travel to the location. There will be enemies present. You can also get persona cores from other, randomly generated [[quest]]s.

You can also travel to and use Charlon Whitestone's ship from the [[ship to the stars]] quest. See [[Endings#Traveling to the journey offer|Traveling to the journey offer]] for details. There is no functional difference between this ship and a constructed ship, though its configuration will not be tailored to your needs. And, because the journey offer ship isn't in your main colony, it won't have your main colony's defenses (yet).

===Ship launch===
{{Main|Ship launch}}
The key with the ship launch is to manage colonist [[mood]]. They'll be awake through night and day, both to deal with raids and to repair your defenses afterwards. [[Schedule]] your colonists with more Sleep and Recreation, make [[drug]]s and [[lavish meal]]s, and be prepared for a lot of combat. For more detail on the subject, see [[ship launch]].

The ship reactor does not require any other part of the ship to begin activation. It is optimal to begin activation as soon as the reactor is built and secured. Getting supplies for and constructing the other ship parts increases [[wealth]], which increases the strength of raids. In addition, the ship reactor can be surrounded with layers and layers of walls to ensure that your effort doesn't get wasted. After the 15 days, if you survive , you can start to gather all the resources and build the ship.

==Gallery==
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Ship.png|Colony-made ship, with space for 25 colonists.
Eventship.png|Journey offer event ship, with space for 18 colonists.
Ship minimum.png|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.
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[[Category:Buildings]]

Cerebrex node

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{{Odyssey}}
{{infobox main
| name = Cerebrex node
| image = Cerebrex node.png
| description = An interlink node scavenged technology from the cerebrex core of a mechhive. It can be used to summon mechanoids or mechanoid transport pods from the planet-wide mechanoid satellite network.
| type = Gear
| type2 = Utility
| tech level = Spacer
| smeltable = False
| market value = 5000
| mass base = 5
| flammability = 0
| lifestage = Adult
| clothing for nudity = False
| coverage = Waist
| layer = Belt
| thingCategories = ApparelUtility
| tradeTags = Clothing
| defaultOutfitTags =
| destroyable = False
| defName = Apparel_CerebrexNode
| page verified for version = 1.6.4518
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The '''cerebrex node''' is a [[utility]] item added by the [[Odyssey DLC]] that acquired by choosing "scavenge technology" during [[Endings#The Mechhive|Odyssey ending]].

== Acquisition ==
One cerebrex node drop around the [[cerebrex core]] after inspect it and choosing "scavenge technology".

== Summary ==
When worn, it gives a [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} wearing it {{+|15}} [[bandwidth]] and {{+|12%}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]].

Once the wearer is [[draft]]ed, three abilities are available, all with {{Ticks|30}} warm up time.
* '''Call drop pods''' can spawn 2 to 3 mechanoid [[drop pod]]s, each can hold up to 150 kg and can be launched up to 66 tiles, on a {{Ticks|180000}} cooldown.
* '''Call mechanoids''' can spawn 750 to 1250 [[raid points]] of hostile mechanoids, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
* '''Deactivate mechanoid''' can permanently disable a hostile mechanoid within 29.9 tiles, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
<gallery widths="64px" heights="64px">
CallDropPods.png|Call drop pods
CallMechanoids.png|Call mechanoids
DeactivateMechanoid.png|Deactivate mechanoid
</gallery>

The cerebrex node has no [[quality]] and is undestroyable.

{{Utility Note}}
== Analysis ==
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== Version history ==
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Added.

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[[Category: Utility]]

Cerebrex node

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Siiftun1857:

{{Odyssey}}
{{infobox main
| name = Cerebrex node
| image = Cerebrex node.png
| description = An interlink node scavenged technology from the cerebrex core of a mechhive. It can be used to summon mechanoids or mechanoid transport pods from the planet-wide mechanoid satellite network.
| type = Gear
| type2 = Utility
| tech level = Spacer
| smeltable = False
| market value = 5000
| mass base = 5
| flammability = 0
| lifestage = Adult
| clothing for nudity = False
| coverage = Waist
| layer = Belt
| thingCategories = ApparelUtility
| tradeTags = Clothing
| defaultOutfitTags =
| destroyable = False
| defName = Apparel_CerebrexNode
| page verified for version = 1.6.4518
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The '''cerebrex node''' is a [[utility]] item added by the [[Odyssey DLC]] that acquired by choosing "scavenge technology" during [[Endings#The Mechhive|Odyssey ending]].

== Acquisition ==
One cerebrex node drop around the [[Cerebrex core]] after inspect it and choosing "scavenge technology".

== Summary ==
When worn, it gives a [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} wearing it {{+|15}} [[bandwidth]] and {{+|12%}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]].

Once the wearer is [[draft]]ed, three abilities are available, all with {{Ticks|30}} warm up time.
* '''Call drop pods''' can spawn 2 to 3 mechanoid [[drop pod]]s, each can hold up to 150 kg and can be launched up to 66 tiles, on a {{Ticks|180000}} cooldown.
* '''Call mechanoids''' can spawn 750 to 1250 [[raid points]] of hostile mechanoids, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
* '''Deactivate mechanoid''' can permanently disable a hostile mechanoid within 29.9 tiles, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
<gallery widths="64px" heights="64px">
CallDropPods.png|Call drop pods
CallMechanoids.png|Call mechanoids
DeactivateMechanoid.png|Deactivate mechanoid
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The cerebrex node has no [[quality]] and is undestroyable.

{{Utility Note}}
== Analysis ==
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== Version history ==
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Added.

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Cerebrex node

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{{Odyssey}}
{{infobox main
| name = Cerebrex node
| image = Cerebrex node.png
| description = An interlink node scavenged technology from the cerebrex core of a mechhive. It can be used to summon mechanoids or mechanoid transport pods from the planet-wide mechanoid satellite network.
| type = Gear
| type2 = Utility
| tech level = Spacer
| smeltable = False
| market value = 5000
| mass base = 5
| flammability = 0
| lifestage = Adult
| clothing for nudity = False
| coverage = Waist
| layer = Belt
| thingCategories = ApparelUtility
| tradeTags = Clothing
| defaultOutfitTags =
| destroyable = False
| defName = Apparel_CerebrexNode
| page verified for version = 1.6.4518
}}
The '''cerebrex node''' is a [[utility]] item added by the [[Odyssey DLC]] that acquired by choosing "scavenge technology" during [[Endings|Odyssey ending]].

== Acquisition ==
One cerebrex node drop around the [[Cerebrex core]] after inspect it and choosing "scavenge technology".

== Summary ==
When worn, it gives a [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} wearing it {{+|15}} [[bandwidth]] and {{+|12%}} [[Mech Work Speed Offset]].

Once the wearer is [[draft]]ed, three abilities are available, all with {{Ticks|30}} warm up time.
* '''Call drop pods''' can spawn 2 to 3 mechanoid [[drop pod]]s, each can hold up to 150 kg and can be launched up to 66 tiles, on a {{Ticks|180000}} cooldown.
* '''Call mechanoids''' can spawn 750 to 1250 [[raid points]] of hostile mechanoids, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
* '''Deactivate mechanoid''' can permanently disable a hostile mechanoid within 29.9 tiles, on a {{Ticks|7500}} cooldown.
<gallery widths="64px" heights="64px">
CallDropPods.png|Call drop pods
CallMechanoids.png|Call mechanoids
DeactivateMechanoid.png|Deactivate mechanoid
</gallery>

The cerebrex node has no [[quality]] and is undestroyable.

{{Utility Note}}
== Analysis ==
{{Stub|section=1|reason=imcomplete}}

== Version history ==
* [[Odyssey DLC]] Release - Added.

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[[Category: Utility]]

File:DeactivateMechanoid.png

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== Summary ==
{{Odyssey}}
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== Licensing ==
{{Copyright game}}

File:CallMechanoids.png

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== Summary ==
{{Odyssey}}
[[Category: Images - Abilities]]
== Licensing ==
{{Copyright game}}

File:CallDropPods.png

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== Summary ==
{{Odyssey}}
[[Category: Images - Abilities]]
== Licensing ==
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Template:Nav/Utility

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;[[Utility]]
: [[Firefoam pop pack]] • [[Orbital bombardment targeter]] • [[Orbital power beam targeter]] • [[Psychic shock lance]] • [[Psychic insanity lance]] • [[Shield belt]] • [[Smokepop pack]] • [[Tornado generator]] • [[Low-shield pack]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} • [[Jump pack]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} • [[Orbital mech cluster targeter]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} • [[Bandwidth pack]] {{BiotechIcon}} • [[Control pack]] {{BiotechIcon}} • [[Tox pack]] {{BiotechIcon}} • [[Biomutation lance]]{{AnomalyIcon}} • [[Deadlife pack]]{{AnomalyIcon}} • [[Disruptor flare pack]]{{AnomalyIcon}} • [[Shard insanity lance]]{{AnomalyIcon}} • [[Shard shock lance]]{{AnomalyIcon}} • [[Turret pack]]{{AnomalyIcon}} • [[Hunter pack]]{{OdysseyIcon}} • [[Cerebrex node]]{{OdysseyIcon}}

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Siiftun1857: {{Odyssey}} Category: Images - Utility

== Summary ==
{{Odyssey}}
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Genes

2024-09-29T19:20:38Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Biotech}}
{{See also|altphrase=This page is a list of genes. For a full explanation of the gene system see|Genetics}}
'''Genes''' are a system for adding capabilities to [[human]] pawns. They can be obtained from character creation or implanted via [[xenogerm]].

Metabolic efficiency, denoted by the [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]] symbol, controls the rate at which pawns get [[Saturation|hungry]]. Harmful genes will increase their metabolic efficiency, getting hungry slower, and thus consuming less food overall. Meanwhile helpful genes reduce metabolic efficiency, getting hungry faster, and thus consuming more food. A baseline human has a metabolic efficiency of 0 (100% hunger rate), and genes can bring it as low as -5 (225% hunger rate) or up to 5 (50% hunger rate). The game prevents you from giving pawns less than -5 metabolic efficiency; it doesn't stop you from exceeding 5, but hunger rate will not go below 50%.

Note that genes with over [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]] 5 cannot be extracted by themselves, and must be extracted in a pack with another gene that lowers metabolism cost.

Complexity, denoted by the [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]] symbol, affects how many [[gene processor]]s you need to create a [[xenogerm]] from a set of genes. A [[gene assembler]] can create xenogerms with a maximum complexity of 6, plus 2 for every attached gene processor. Complexity also determines the base time it takes to create the xenogerm, ranging from 4 hours at ≤3 complexity, to 23 hours at ≥20 complexity (which is then scaled by the [[research speed]] of whoever operates the gene assembler).{{Check Tag|Detail needed|Specific math}}

The type of gene is shown both by its position in the gene tab of the pawn and its background:
* [[File:GeneBackground Endogene.png|32px]] Germline Genes
* [[File:GeneBackground_Xenogene.png|32px]] Xenogenes
* [[File:GeneBackground ArchiteGene.png|32px]] Archite genes

== Archite ==

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! Name
! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Archite capsule required.png|20px|Archite capsules]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Exclude

|- id="Scarless"
! Scarless [[File:Gene_TotalHealing.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a special type of regenerator cell which can heal old wounds and chronic illnesses like bad back.''
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* Heals 1 scar, permanent injury, or chronic condition ([[Alzheimer's]], [[Asthma]], [[Cataract]]s, [[Carcinoma]], [[Dementia]], [[Frail]], [[Hearing loss|Hearing Loss]] and Blindness) every 15-30 days, akin to (and alongside) [[luciferium]] including scars from a scarification [[ritual]].{{IdeologyIcon}}
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| -

|- id="Gene implanter"
! Gene implanter [[File:Gene_XenogermReimplanter.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene can implant a copy of their xenogerm into another person through a somewhat gross-looking injector organ. Their own genetic material will then regrow very slowly. If they implant while their genes are regrowing, they will die. ''
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*Adds ability: [[File:Gene_XenogermReimplanter.png|16px]] Implant Genes
:''Implant this person's xenogenes into a willing subject using a special injector organ. If this person's genes are currently regrowing, they will implant their xenogerm and die in the process. When implanted, a xenogerm will overwrite the target's xenogenes. Germline genes will be unaffected.''
:* Passes on a copy of all xenogenes to a target. Causes genes to regrow for 2 years afterwards.
:* Using this ability while genes are regrowing kills the casting pawn.
:** If using this ability is lethal, then the caster will lose all of their xenogenes upon death.
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| -

|- id="Perfect immunity"
! Perfect immunity [[File:Gene_PerfectImmunity.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have archite-enhanced immune systems which intelligently destroy invaders. They are totally immune to most normal illnesses.''
----
*Immune to [[Flu]], [[Malaria]], [[Sleeping sickness]], [[Plague]], [[Infection]], and [[Lung rot]]. These are all the [[disease]]s that are fatal and that adult colonists can acquire.
**Does ''not'' affect pre-existing conditions. Only prevents new illnesses.
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| Immunity

|- id="Non-senescent"
! Non-senescent [[File:Gene_NonSenescent.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene do not go through senescence in the normal way. They never get chronic age-related diseases like cancer, bad back, cataracts, or dementia.''
----
*Total immunity to [[carcinoma]], [[heart attack]], and chronic conditions ([[Alzheimer's]], [[Asthma]], [[Artery blockage]], [[Cataract]]s, [[Dementia]], [[Frail]], but not [[Hearing loss|Hearing Loss]]).
**Prevents these conditions from any source, not just aging. (e.g. [[nuclear stomach]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[toxic buildup]])
**Does ''not'' affect pre-existing conditions.

| ''' 0'''
| {{Bad|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| -

|- id="Ageless"
! Ageless [[File:Gene_Ageless.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have archites in the bloodstream which continuously reverse the process of aging. Starting at the age of 13, carriers begin to biologically age slower. By 18, the aging process stops completely.''
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* Aging ×1 at age 13. Rate linearly slows as the pawn gets older.
* Aging ×0 at age 18.5.
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| -

|- id="Deathless"
! Deathless [[File:Gene_Deathless.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have archites in the blood which will sustain their life processes no matter what. As long as the brain remains intact, a carrier of this gene will never die.''
----
* If a pawn would've died, but the brain, head, or neck is not directly destroyed, they enter into a regenerative coma / involuntary deathrest.
** Pawns without the Deathrest gene enter regenerative coma. After fatal conditions are removed, regenerative coma lasts 7 days.
** Pawns with the Deathrest gene enter involuntary [[deathrest]] and lose all [[Hemogen]]. After lethality is removed, the usual deathrest mechanics take place.
** Does not regenerate limbs or organs, except for the torso.
** Entering the regeneration coma / involuntary deathrest will cause the pawn to lose 3% to 6% of total [[skill]] XP in a random skill.
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×200% (also multiplied by the usual ×400% for 1 Archite capsule)
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|7}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| -

|- id="Archite metabolism"
! Archite metabolism [[File:Gene_ArchiteMetabolism.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have special archites in their cells that facilitate and optimize metabolism. This improves overall genetic and metabolic quality.''
----
* Increases metabolic efficiency. No other effect.
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×150% (also multiplied by ×700% for 2 Archite capsules)
| {{+|6}}
| {{Bad|6}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| -
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== Special abilities ==
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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]

|- id="Fire spew"
! Fire spew [[File:Gene_Firespew.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers are able to spew flammable bile generated by a special organ in their neck. The bile sticks to anything in a small area and can ignite people, objects, and the ground.''
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* Adds ability: [[File:FireSpew.png|16px]] Fire spew
:''Spit a stream of sticky, flammable bile from the mouth. The bile can ignite anything or anyone it hits, and also form flaming pools on the ground. The bile is generated and stored by an organ in the neck, along with a separate pouch of hypergolic reactant for ignition.''
:* Spits flammable liquid in a 7.9 tile triangle with a 3 tile wide end.{{Check Tag|Detail Needed|Damage? Filth? Etc. See CompProperties_AbilityFireSpew }}
:* Target: Pawn or Location
:* Warmup Time: {{Ticks|60}}
:* Cooldown: {{Ticks/gametime|300000}}
:* Charges: 1
:* AI Can Use: True. Note: AI will still target fire-immune targets.
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×150%
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]

|- id="Foam spray"
! Foam spray [[File:Gene_FoamSpray.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers grow glands in the neck that generate and store a fire-retardant foam. They can spew this foam over an area to extinguish fires.''
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* Adds ability: [[File:Gene_FoamSpray.png|16px]] Foam spray
:''Spray thick fire-retardant foam from glands in the neck up through the mouth. The foam will cover a small area and extinguish any fire it touches.''
:* Spits firefoam in a 3x3 area around the target, up to 4 tiles away. This leaves [[firefoam]] filth on the ground, extinguishing fires and preventing new ones from igniting.
:* Target: Pawn or Location
:* Warmup Time: {{Ticks|60}}
:* Cooldown: {{Ticks/gametime|30000}} for all 3 charges. Cooldown will not begin until all charges have been expended.
:* Charges: 3
:* AI Can Use: False.
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -

|- id="Animal warcall"
! Animal warcall [[File:Gene_AnimalWarcall.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene can perform an animal warcall, using a powerful bellow and psychic connection to call an animal to fight for them.''
----
* Adds ability: [[File:AnimalWarcall.png|16px]] Animal warcall
:''With a powerful bellow and psychic connection, call an animal to fight your enemies for a few hours.''
:* Turns the target berserk against all factions hostile to the caster for 12 in-game hours/{{ticks|500*60}}. -75 base goodwill when used on a friendly [[faction]]'s animal.
:* Target: Any single [[animal]] or [[wildman]]. Does not require [[LoS]] {{Check Tag|Detail|Does work on NPC animals, even hostile factions?}}
:* Range: 49.9 tiles
:* Warmup Time: {{Ticks|120}}
:* Cooldown: {{Ticks/gametime|900000}} per charge.
:* Charges: 2
:* AI Can Use: True
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]

|- id="Acid spray"
! Acid spray [[File:Gene_AcidSpray.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers grow glands in the neck that generate and store a sticky acid substance, along with acid-tolerant tissues in the mouth. They can spew this acid over an area, where it will stick to enemies and burn them.''
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* Adds ability: [[File:AcidSpray.png|16px]] Acid spray
:''Spray a sticky acid substance from glands in the neck up through the mouth and all over the target area. The acid will stick to targets and burn them.''
:* Spits a fast-moving acid projectile in a 3x3 area around the target. This does 30 damage to buildings and items, and creates a harmless "spent acid" filth on each affected tile. Creatures in the affected area suffer a 30 damage burn (possibly spread over multiple body parts), but suffer no persistent damage over time. The attack has an {{AP}} of 80%{{Check Tag|Armor type?|Does this oppose heat armor? Sharp? blunt?}} and a [[stopping power]] of 1.
:* Target: Pawn or Location
:* Range: 8.9 tiles
:* Warmup Time: {{Ticks|30}}
:* Cooldown: {{Ticks/gametime|30000}}
:* Charges: 1
:* AI Can Use: True.
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×150%
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
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== Hemogen ==
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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! Prereq.
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]

|- id="Hemogenic"
! Hemogenic [[File:Gene_Hemogenic.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a reserve of biological strength powered by a resource called hemogen. The resource can be gained and spent in various ways, all of which are unlocked by other genes. Carriers lose 2 hemogen per day from biological entropy.''
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* Creates a [[Hemogen]] need, which decreases by {{--|2}} per day.
** Increases by {{+|20}} per [[hemogen pack]] or Bloodfeed.
* Receive ''Hemogen Craving'' [[ailment]] when Hemogen hits 0. Craving severity increases by 5% / hour with 0 hemogen. Severity decreases by 10% / hour with it.
** Hemogen Craving (minor, 0%): {{--|10}} [[mood]], [[Consciousness]] max {{Bad|90%}}, {{++|5%}} [[Pain]]
** Hemogen Craving (moderate, 35%): {{--|15}} [[mood]], [[Consciousness]] max {{Bad|80%}}, {{++|10%}} [[Pain]]
** Hemogen Craving (major, 70%): {{--|20}} [[mood]], [[Consciousness]] max {{Bad|50%}}, {{++|15%}} [[Pain]]
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]

|- id="Hemogen drain"
! Hemogen drain [[File:Gene_HemogenDrain.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers lose an additional 8 hemogen per day from biological entropy.''
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*{{--|8}} [[Hemogen]] per day.

| {{+|6}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| Hemogenic
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]

|- id="Coagulate"
! Coagulate [[File:Gene_Coagulate.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have special glands on their hands and wrists, as well as a unique salivary compound that they can use to rapidly tend wounds.''
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* Adds ability: [[File:Gene_Coagulate.png|16px]] Coagulate
:''Use special glands in the wrists to quickly tend someone's wounds.''
:* Tends wounds. {{Check Tag|Detail|CompProperties_AbilityCoagulate}}
:* Target: Single target in [[LoS]]
:* Range: 3.9 tiles
:* Warmup Time: {{Ticks|60}}
:* [[Hemogen]] Cost: 20
:* AI Can Use: ?
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| Hemogenic
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]

|- id="Bloodfeeder"
! Bloodfeeder [[File:Gene_Bloodfeeder.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have small retractable fangs and an organ on the roof of the mouth which can extract hemogen from fresh warm blood. They can bite an unresisting person, suck the blood, and gain hemogen directly.''
----
* Adds ability: [[File:Gene_Bloodfeeder.png|16px]] Bloodfeed
:''Bite the target and extract hemogen directly from their blood. The target will lose blood and will be horrified by the interaction, but will be otherwise unharmed. A fast-acting coagulant will seal the wound to prevent bleeding. Can only target non-hemogenic humans. Hemogen gain is affected by the target’s body size.''
:* Feed on a pawn to gain up to {{+|20}} [[Hemogen]], which scales with target body size, but not the user's.
:** Target will gain {{++|45%}} [[blood loss]] and the {{--|5}} ''Fed on'' [[mood]]let (5 days, doesn't stack, negated by [[masochist]] trait and [[Ideoligion#Bloodfeeders|Bloodfeeders]] precept.{{IdeologyIcon}}). Also gains a bloodfeeder mark on the neck (+1% [[pain]]).
:** If the target does not have enough blood, hemogen gain will be reduced accordingly.{{Check Tag|Detail}}
:** Bloodfeeder must have a non-0% [[Eating]] capacity.
:* Target: Single human target. Target must not have the Bloodfeeder gene. Must be [[downed]] or a [[colonist]], [[slave]],{{IdeologyIcon}} or [[prisoner]] not on a [[mental break]].
:** A warning will be given if it would kill the target or render them unconscious, but it will not account for continuing blood loss.
*{{+|2}} [[mood]] when near a [[blood torch]].
----
*Interaction with [[Ideoligion#Bloodfeeders|Bloodfeeders]] precept.{{IdeologyIcon}}
** Bloodfeeders: Revered - Believers have a higher [[opinion]] towards bloodfeeders, negates moodlet for being fed on, mood bonus when bloodfeeders are in the colony or are the [[Ideoligion#Leader|Leader]],{{IdeologyIcon}} and mood penalty when they die.
** Bloodfeeders: Reviled. - Believers have a lower [[opinion]] towards bloodfeeders, mood penalty when bloodfeeders are in the colony or when they are bloodfeeder, and mood bonus when they die.

| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| Hemogenic
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]

|- id="Longjump legs"
! Longjump legs [[File:Gene_LongJumpLegs.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers have special hemogen-powered muscle fibers in their legs which allow them to jump great distances.''
----
* Adds ability: [[File:Longjump.png|16px]] Longjump
:''Jump to a distant location using super-strong hemogen-powered legs.''
:* Jump to the selected location, over non-LoS blocking objects, quickly but not instantly. Immune to all damage during the jump.
:* Target: Location in [[LoS]]
:* Range: 19.9 tiles
:* Warmup Time: {{Ticks|30}}
:* [[Hemogen]] Cost: 5
:* AI Can Use: False
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| Hemogenic
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]

|- id="Piercing spine"
! Piercing spine [[File:Gene_PiercingSpine.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers grow an opening in their upper chest along with a quiver of keratin spines. Using a hemogen-powered chemical reaction, they can fire these spines at high speed at nearby targets with surprising accuracy.''
----
* Adds ability: [[File:PiercingSpine.png|16px]] Piercing spine
:''Use a hemogenic chemical reaction to launch a bony spine at the target. The spine exits through the skin from an opening between the collarbones. Given the method of launch, it is surprisingly easy to aim.''
:* Launches an unerring spine at the target, dealing 30 [[Damage Types#RangedStab|RangedStab]] damage, with an {{AP}} of 100% and a [[stopping power]] of 1.
:* Target: Single target in [[LoS]]
:* Range: 3.9 tiles
:* Warmup Time: {{Ticks|30}}
:* Cooldown Time: {{Ticks|60}}
:* [[Hemogen]] Cost: 20
:* AI Can Use: True
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×150%
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| Hemogenic
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]

|- id="Deathrest"
! Deathrest [[File:Gene_Deathrest.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene must periodically regenerate themselves in a special coma called deathrest. Deathrest takes days, but can confer substantial bonuses. Deathrest can be accelerated and its effects enhanced by the use of a variety of special buildings and technologies. Those who put off deathresting will suffer from deathrest exhaustion.''
----
*Creates a need for [[deathrest]] roughly every 30 days.
**Deathrest is initiated at a [[bed]] or [[deathrest casket]] and prevents action. It lasts for 4 days by default (3.6 days in casket), which can be interrupted for a stat penalty.
**If need hits 0, maximum [[Consciousness]] set to {{Bad|50%}} and [[Psychic Sensitivity]] -100%.
**See the [[deathrest|deathrest article]] for more details.

| {{+|6}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| Hemogenic
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
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== Health ==

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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Exclude

|- id="Weak immunity"
! Weak immunity [[File:Gene_WeakImmunity.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene gain immunity to diseases more slowly than normal. They may die from infections that others would survive.''
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* [[Immunity Gain Speed]] {{Bad|x90%}}
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| Immunity

|- id="Strong immunity"
! Strong immunity [[File:Gene_StrongImmunity.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene gain immunity to diseases faster than normal.''
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* [[Immunity Gain Speed]] {{Good|x110%}}
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]] [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| Immunity

|- id="Super immunity"
! Super immunity [[File:Gene_SuperStrongImmunity.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene gain immunity to diseases considerably faster than normal.''
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* [[Immunity Gain Speed]] {{Good|x150%}}
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×125%
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| Immunity

|- id="Slow wound healing"
! Slow wound healing [[File:Gene_WoundHealingRateSlow.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene heal from wounds half as fast as normal.''
----
*Injury healing factor {{Bad|×50%}}
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]] [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| WoundHealingRate

|- id="Fast wound healing"
! Fast wound healing [[File:Gene_WoundHealingRateFast.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene heal from wounds twice as fast as normal.''
----
*Injury healing factor {{Good|×200%}}
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]]
| WoundHealingRate

|- id="Superfast wound healing"
! Superfast wound healing [[File:Gene_WoundHealingRateSuperfast.png|64px]]
|''Carriers of this gene heal from wounds four times as fast as normal.''
----
*Injury healing factor {{Good|×400%}}
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×125%
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]] [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| WoundHealingRate

|- id="Superclotting"
! Superclotting [[File:Gene_Superclotting.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have extra-power coagulating factors in their blood, and will stop bleeding very quickly when wounded.''
----
*Every 6 seconds, all bleeding wounds are automatically tended at 20-70% [[tend quality]]. The exact tend quality is fully random within this range.
*This renders it functionally impossible for the pawn to bleed out, at the minor downside of the wound being somewhat more susceptible to infection than being treated by a doctor under better conditions (e.g. by a skilled doctor, with industrial+ medicine, in a clean hospital).
*Does not affect non-bleeding wounds.
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| -
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== Psychics ==

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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Exclude

|- id="Psychically deaf"
! Psychically deaf [[File:Gene_PsychicallyDeaf.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are deaf to all psychic energy and influence outside their own minds. They cannot be affected by psychic influence, nor can they ever wield psychic power.''
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* Forced [[trait]]: [[Psychically deaf]]
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
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|- id="Psychically dull"
! Psychically dull [[File:Gene_PsychicallyDull.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are less psychically-sensitive than others.''
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* Forced [[trait]]: [[Psychically dull]]
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| PsychicAbility

|- id="Psy-sensitive"
! Psy-sensitive [[File:Gene_EnhancedPsychicAbility.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are more psychically-sensitive than average.''
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* [[Psychic Sensitivity]] +20%
* Meditation psyfocus gain {{+|10% / day}} {{Check Tag|Verify|Verify and explain exact mechanic, order of operations, math etc}}
* {{+|0.1}} Neural Heat Recovery per second base. Effectively {{#expr:0.1*1.625 round 3}} Heat/s recovery at Level 6 psylink.
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]] [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| PsychicAbility

|- id="Super psy-sensitive"
! Super psy-sensitive [[File:Gene_ExtremePsychicAbility.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are much more psychically-sensitive than most.''
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* [[Psychic Sensitivity]] +40%
* Meditation psyfocus gain {{+|20% / day}} {{Check Tag|Verify|Verify and explain exact mechanic, order of operations, math etc}}
* {{+|0.2}} Neural Heat Recovery per second base. Effectively {{#expr:0.2*1.625 round 3}} Heat/s recovery at Level 6 psylink.
| {{--|5}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| PsychicAbility

|- id="Psychic bonding"
! Psychic bonding [[File:Gene_PsychicBonding.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a special neural organ that makes them psychically bond with a lover for life. As long as the lovers are together, they will be happy. If they are physically separated, they will be disturbed by the distance. If one dies, the other's mind will be badly disrupted.''
----
*Romance attempts always succeed
*Gains psychic bond with first attempted [[Social#Romance|romance]] or [[lovin']]
:*''This person has a psychic bond with another person based on the psychic bonding gene. The bond itself grants some limited psychic awareness, allowing it to connect even with the psychically deaf.''
:*Bonded pawns receive gain ×50% [[pain]] multiplier, {{+|15%}} [[consciousness]], {{+|12}} [[mood]] and +10% [[psychic sensitivity]] when on same map.
:*Bonded pawns receive {{--|10}} [[mood]], +5% [[psychic sensitivity]], and {{--|25%}} [[consciousness]] when not on same map.
:*When one bonded pawn dies, the other will receive a -30 mood penalty that linearly decays over the course of 21 days.{{Check Tag|Confirm duration}} Note: if counseled, the counsel bonus will not decay, but will stay at the value it was applied with.
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| -
|}
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==Movement==

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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
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! Exclude

|- id="Slow runner"
! Slow runner [[File:Gene_SlowMovespeed.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene move more slowly than normal.''
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* [[Move Speed]]: {{--|0.2}} {{CS}}
| {{+|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]] [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| MoveSpeed

|- id="Fast runner"
! Fast runner [[File:Gene_QuickMovespeed.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene move more quickly than normal.''
----
* [[Move Speed]]: {{+|0.2}} {{CS}}
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| MoveSpeed

|- id="Very fast runner"
! Very fast runner [[File:Gene_VeryQuickMovespeed.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene move much more quickly than normal.''
----
* [[Move Speed]]: {{+|0.4}} {{CS}}
| {{--|5}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| MoveSpeed

|- id="Naked speed"
! Naked speed [[File:Gene_NakedSpeed.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene move slower while clothed, and faster while naked.''
----
* [[Move speed]]: {{--|0.20}} {{CS}} (clothed)
* [[Move speed]]: {{+|0.10}} {{CS}} (unclothed)
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| -
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== Mood ==

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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
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! Exclude

|- id="Very unhappy"
! Very unhappy [[File:Gene_Depressive.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are highly predisposed to negative emotion. They'll see the bad in every situation and have a much lower mood than others.''
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* Permanent {{--|10}} ''Genetic depression'' [[mood]]
| {{+|5}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Mood

|- id="Unhappy"
! Unhappy [[File:Gene_Pessimist.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are predisposed to pessimistic perceptions. They'll tend to interpret things negatively and have lower mood than others.''
----
* Permanent {{--|5}} ''Genetic pessimism'' [[mood]]
| {{+|3}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| Mood

|- id="Happy"
! Happy [[File:Gene_Optimist.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are predisposed to optimistic feelings. They'll have higher mood than others.''
----
* Permanent {{+|5}} ''Genetic optimism'' [[mood]]
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Mood

|- id="Very happy"
! Very happy [[File:Gene_Sanguine.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are highly predisposed to optimism and not at all inclined to think negatively. They'll have much higher mood than others.''
----
* Permanent {{+|10}} ''Genetic joy'' [[mood]]
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|3}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| Mood
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== Temperature ==

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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
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! Exclude

|- id="Cold weakness"
! Cold weakness [[File:Gene_MinTemperatureSmallIncrease.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are slightly less comfortable in cold temperatures.''
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* [[Minimum Comfortable Temperature]]: {{++|{{temperature|5||delta}}}}
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| MinTemperature

|- id="Cold tolerant"
! Cold tolerant [[File:Gene_MinTemperatureSmallDecrease.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are slightly more comfortable in cold temperatures.''
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* [[Minimum Comfortable Temperature]]: {{---|{{temperature|10||delta}}}}
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]] [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| MinTemperature

|- id="Cold super-tolerant"
! Cold super-tolerant [[File:Gene_MinTemperatureLargeDecrease.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are much more comfortable in cold temperatures.''
----
* [[Minimum Comfortable Temperature]]: {{---|{{temperature|20||delta}}}}
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| MinTemperature

|- id="Heat weakness"
! Heat weakness [[File:Gene_MaxTemperatureSmallDecrease.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are slightly less comfortable in warm temperatures.''
----
* [[Maximum Comfortable Temperature]]: {{--|{{temperature|5||delta}}}}
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| MaxTemperature

|- id="Heat tolerant"
! Heat tolerant [[File:Gene_MaxTemperatureSmallIncrease.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are slightly more comfortable in warm temperatures.''
----
* [[Maximum Comfortable Temperature]]: {{+|{{temperature|10||delta}}}}
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]] [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| MaxTemperature

|- id="Heat super-tolerant"
! Heat super-tolerant [[File:Gene_MaxTemperatureLargeIncrease.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are much more comfortable in warm temperatures.''
----
* [[Maximum Comfortable Temperature]]: {{+|{{temperature|20||delta}}}}
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| MaxTemperature
|}
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== Resistance and sensitivity ==

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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
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! Exclude

|- id="Tox resistance"
! Tox resistance [[File:Gene_PartialToxicityResistance.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are resistant to toxic buildup from any source. This includes pollution, toxic fallout, tox gas, and direct attacks with venom or injected poison. They'll gain half the amount of toxic buildup compared to others. Cellular filters in the lung and skin reduce the dose of toxins entering the bloodstream.
----
* [[Toxic Resistance]]: {{+|50%}}
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| ToxResistance

|- id="Tox immunity"
! Tox immunity [[File:Gene_TotalToxicityResistance.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are totally immune to toxic buildup from all sources including polluted terrain, toxic fallout, tox gas, and direct attacks with venom or injected poison. They are also not bothered by acidic smog. The carrier's biochemical pathways are modified to route around interference from nearly all known toxins. Along with enhancements to the kidneys and liver, this keeps carriers comfortable in even the most toxic of environments.
----
* [[Toxic Resistance]]: {{+|100%}}
* [[Tox gas]] immunity
* Removes mood: Toxic fallout: -5
* Removes mood: Acidic smog: -5
| {{--|4}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| ToxResistance

|- id="Partial antitoxic lungs"
! Partial antitoxic lungs [[File:Gene_PartialPollutionResistance.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are resistant to environmental toxins. They get less toxic buildup from tox gas, polluted terrain, and toxic fallout, but are still vulnerable to direct attacks with venom or injected poison. Additionally, they build up rot stink exposure slower.
----
* [[Toxic Environment Resistance]]: {{+|50%}}
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| ToxicEnvironmentResistance

|- id="Total antitoxic lungs"
! Total antitoxic lungs [[File:Gene_TotalPollutionResistance.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are immune to environmental toxins, but not from direct toxic attacks. They get no toxic buildup from tox gas, polluted terrain, or toxic fallout, and they are not bothered by acidic smog. They are still vulnerable to direct attacks like venom and injected poison. Additionally, they are immune to rot stink exposure.
----
* [[Toxic Environment Resistance]]: {{+|100%}}
* [[Tox gas]] immunity
* Removes mood: Toxic fallout: -5
* Removes mood: Acidic smog: -5
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| ToxicEnvironmentResistance

|- id="Mild UV sensitivity"
! Mild UV sensitivity [[File:Gene_MildUVSensitivity.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have biological compounds in their skin that react painfully to UV radiation. They are unusually sensitive to sunlight.
----
* When in sunlight (when on an unroofed tile while [[light]] levels from {{Hover title|Sunlamps and other artificial light sources don't count|natural sunlight}} are 11% or more):
** [[Move Speed]] {{Bad|×90%}}
** Mood: ''Sunlight Sensitivity'': {{--|6}}
* Does not cause [[pain]], despite the description.
| {{+|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| UVSensitivity

|- id="Intense UV sensitivity"
! Intense UV sensitivity [[File:Gene_IntenseUVSensitivity.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have biological compounds in their skin that react dangerously to UV radiation. They are intensely sensitive to sunlight.''
----
* When in sunlight (when on an unroofed tile while [[light]] levels from {{Hover title|Sunlamps and other artificial light sources don't count|natural sunlight}} are 11% or more):
** [[Move Speed]] {{Bad|×80%}}
** Mood: ''Sunlight Sensitivity'': {{--|12}}
* Does not cause [[pain]].
| {{+|4}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]]
| UVSensitivity

|- id="Fire resistant"
! Fire resistant [[File:Gene_FireResistant.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have special fast-acting sweat glands and heat-resistant skin. They only take 25% of the normal damage from fire. The chance of them catching on fire is also drastically reduced.
----
* [[Flammability]] {{Good|x10%}}
* [[Damage Type#Flame|Flame]] damage {{Good|x25%}}
:Note that this does not affect [[Damage Type#Heat|Heat]] or [[Damage Type#Vaporize|Vaporize]] damage
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| FireDamage

|- id="Tinderskin"
! Tinderskin [[File:Gene_FireWeakness.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers have dry, thin skin which burns easily from fire, and their immune systems react very poorly to this kind of threat. Damage from fire is multiplied by 4.
----
* [[Damage Type#Flame|Flame]] damage {{Bad|x400%}}
:Note that this does not affect [[Damage Type#Heat|Heat]] or [[Damage Type#Vaporize|Vaporize]] damage
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| FireDamage

|- id="Pyrophobia"
! Pyrophobia [[File:Gene_FireTerror.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have an intense fear of fire. When fires are close, there is a chance they will have a mental breakdown at any moment.
----
* If the pawn has line of sight of a fire within 19.9 tiles, it is considered "near fire" and the following happens:
** {{--|10}} ''Afraid of fire'' [[mood]]let
** 0.1 day mtb chance of "Fire terror" mental break that cause "panic-fleeing fire" mental state, ends when not "near fire" for {{Ticks|500}}
* Suppresses [[Pyromaniac]] trait
:Note that blind pawns are still affected by pyrophobia, and will still flee
| {{+|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| -
|}
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== Violence ==

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! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
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! Exclude

|- id="Dead calm"
! Dead calm [[File:Gene_DeadCalm.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene feel calm in every situation and have a very placid demeanor. They will never start social fights or have aggressive mental breaks.
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* Effects:
** Will never do social fights
** Mental breaks are never violent (Tantrum, Berserk, Slaughterer, Murderous Rage)
** Will never prison break
** [[Arrest]]ing never fails, and will never berserk on arrest.
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]]
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|- id="Aggressive"
! Aggressive [[File:Gene_Aggressive.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene are quick to anger. They are twice as likely to start social fights. When they have mental breaks, they are twice as likely to choose an aggressive kind of break.
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* Effects:
** Social fight chance factor ×200%
** Chance mental break is violent ×200% (Tantrum, Berserk, Slaughterer, Murderous Rage) {{Check Tag|Wb minor breaks?|Minor has no violent options. Does this affect the chance at that tier in any way?}}
** Prison break interval factor ×60%
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]] [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]] [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]] [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| Aggression Aggressive

|- id="Hyper-aggressive"
! Hyper-aggressive [[File:Gene_HyperAggressive.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene are hormonally high-strung and very aggressive. They are three times as likely to start social fights. Any mental break they have will be of an aggressive type.
----
* Effects:
** Social fight chance factor ×300%
** Mental breaks are always{{Check Tag|Verify|Nominally, it multiplies the chance of a violent break by 999x, so it is still possible but unlikely to have a non-violent. Confirm which. Look at TryRandomElementByWeight}} violent where possible.(Tantrum, Berserk, Slaughterer, Murderous Rage) Tiers without violent options, i.e. Minor breaks, non-violent breaks are chosen instead.{{Check Tag|All types?|For tiers without violent options, so they use the standard chances or does it.have default?}}
** Prison break interval factor ×40%
| {{+|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| Aggression Aggressive

|- id="Weak melee damage"
! Weak melee damage [[File:Gene_WeakMeleeDamage.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene do less damage in close-quarters combat. Weak fast-twitch muscle fibers make their strikes shaky and weak.
----
* [[Melee damage factor]] ×50%
** This also affects melee {{AP}} when calculated from damage. It does not affect the AP of weapons that are set independently of damage, such as: [[Spear]]s, [[Monosword]]s,{{RoyaltyIcon}} [[Persona monosword]]s,{{RoyaltyIcon}} [[Hand talon]],{{RoyaltyIcon}} [[Knee spike]]s,{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[flesh whip]]s{{AnomalyIcon}}.
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| MeleeDamage

|- id="Strong melee damage"
! Strong melee damage [[File:Gene_StrongMeleeDamage.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene do more damage in close-quarters combat. Extra-strong fast-twitch muscle fibers make their strikes accurate and powerful.
----
* [[Melee damage factor]] ×150%
** This also affects melee {{AP}} when calculated from damage. It does not affect the AP of weapons that are set independently of damage, such as: [[Spear]]s, [[Monosword]]s,{{RoyaltyIcon}} [[Persona monosword]]s,{{RoyaltyIcon}} [[Hand talon]],{{RoyaltyIcon}} [[Knee spike]]s,{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[flesh whip]]s{{AnomalyIcon}}.
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]] [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]] [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]] [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| MeleeDamage

|- id="Violence disabled"
! Violence disabled [[File:Gene_ViolenceDisabled.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene are emotionally and mentally incapable of engaging in violence. They are overwhelmingly resistant to and horrified by the idea of hurting another.
----
*Disables work:
** Hunt
** Violent
| {{+|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| MeleeDamage ShootingAccuracy Aggressive KillThirst

|- id="Kind instinct"
! Kind instinct [[File:Gene_KindInstinct.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene are high in trait agreeableness and are very conscientious. They rarely insult others or starts fights, and will sometimes offer kind words to brighten the moods of those around them. They also never judge people by their appearance.
----
* Forced [[trait]]: [[Kind]]
* Suppresses [[Abrasive]] and [[Psychopath]] traits
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| -

|- id="Kill thirst"
! Kill thirst [[File:Gene_Killthirst.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene lust for the feeling of ending another's life. They will become irritated if they go for too long without killing someone in close combat.
----
*Causes [[need]]: [[Kill satiety]]. Inflicts an increasing mood penalty during long periods between melee kills. See the [[Kill satiety]] page for details.
| {{+|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| KillThirst

|}
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== Sleep ==

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! Exclude

|- id="Very Sleepy"
! Very Sleepy [[File:Gene_VerySleepy.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene get tired much faster than others.
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* [[Sleep Fall Rate]]: {{Bad|×180%}}
| {{+|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| Sleep

|- id="Sleepy"
! Sleepy [[File:Gene_Sleepy.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene get tired somewhat faster than others.
----
* [[Sleep Fall Rate]]: {{Bad|×140%}}
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| Sleep

|- id="Low sleep"
! Low sleep [[File:Gene_QuickSleeper.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene get tired less quickly than others.
----
* [[Sleep Fall Rate]]: {{Good|×40%}}
| {{--|4}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| Sleep

|- id="Never sleep"
! Never sleep [[File:Gene_Neversleep.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene have a unique metabolic process which allows clusters of neurons to sleep while the rest of the brain stays awake. They never need to sleep.
----
* Effects:
** Disables [[need]]: [[Sleep]]
** If all pawns in [[caravan]] have this gene, they don't need to stop at night.
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×125%
| {{--|6}}
| {{Bad|3}}
| -
| Sleep
|}
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== Pain ==

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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
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! Exclude

|- id="Delicate"
! Delicate [[File:Gene_Delicate.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene take greater injuries than others from the same damage. They have thin, brittle bones and less binding molecules in joints and flesh.
----
* Forced [[trait]]: [[Delicate]]
| {{+|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]] [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| Toughness

|- id="Robust"
! Robust [[File:Gene_Tough.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene take less injuries than others from the same damage. They have thickened, densified bones, nearly-solid ribcages, and strengthened binding factors in joints and flesh.
----
* {{Good|x75%}} [[Incoming Damage Multiplier]]
** Note that despite being incompatible with the [[#Delicate|Delicate]] gene, it stacks multiplicatively with other Incoming Damage Multiplier factors, including the the [[Delicate]] ''trait''. See for [[Incoming Damage Multiplier]] further details on stacking.
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]] [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]] [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| Toughness

|- id="Extra pain"
! Extra pain [[File:Gene_ExtraPain.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene feel more pain than others given the same injuries. Neuron activity in the brain's nociception center is amplified, so pain feels extra-intense and fiery. This can be protective, but overall it's considered a negative and makes it hard to push through difficult situations.
----
* Forced [[trait]]: [[Wimp]]
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]]
| Pain

|- id="Reduced pain"
! Reduced pain [[File:Gene_PainReduced.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene feel half as much pain compared to a baseliner. Reduced neuron activity in the brain's nociception centers makes pain dull and faint. This can be advantageous sometimes, and dangerous other times.
----
* Pain ×50%
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]] [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]] [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| Pain
|}
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== Reproduction ==

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! Exclude

|- id="Low libido"
! Low libido [[File:Gene_LowLibido.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene are less likely to engage in lovin' with their partner.
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* {{MTB}} [[Lovin']] Factor: {{Bad|2}}
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| Libido

|- id="High libido"
! High libido [[File:Gene_HighLibido.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene are more likely to engage in lovin' with their partner.
----
* {{MTB}} [[Lovin']] Factor: {{Good|0.5}}
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| Libido

|- id="Sterile"
! Sterile [[File:Gene_Sterile.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene cannot reproduce by natural means.
----
* Fertility ×0%
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| Fertility

|- id="Fertile"
! Fertile [[File:Gene_Fertile.png|64px]]
| Carriers of this gene have a higher chance of becoming pregnant or impregnating others.
----
* Fertility ×200%
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| Fertility
|}
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== Beauty ==

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! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
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! Exclude
|- id="Very unattractive"
! Very unattractive [[File:Gene_StaggeringlyUgly.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have misshapen, asymmetrical facial structures and blotchy skin. They're hard to look at.''
----
* [[Beauty (Pawn)]]: {{--|2}}
* [[Market Value]]: {{bad|-700}}
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Beauty

|- id="Unattractive"
! Unattractive [[File:Gene_Ugly.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have exaggerated facial features and poor skin that are generally considered ugly.''
----
* [[Beauty (Pawn)]]: {{--|1}}
* [[Market Value]]: {{bad|-350}}
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| Beauty

|- id="Attractive"
! Attractive [[File:Gene_Pretty.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have unusually symmetrical, balanced facial features and extra-clear skin which gives them a pleasing appearance.''
----
* [[Beauty (Pawn)]]: {{+|1}}
* [[Market Value]]: {{+|350}}
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| Beauty

|- id="Very attractive"
! Very attractive [[File:Gene_Beautiful.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have remarkably precise and symmetrical faces. Their features are distinctive and strong without being exaggerated, and their skin is nearly perfect. They are generally seen as beautiful.''
----
* [[Beauty (Pawn)]]: {{+|2}}
* [[Market Value]]: {{+|700}}
| {{--|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| Beauty
|}
</div>
</div>
</li></div>

== Cosmetic ==
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{| {{STDT| sortable c_17 text-valign:top}}
! Name
! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Exclude

|- id="Red eyes"
! Red eyes [[File:Gene_RedEyes.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have deeply red-pigmented eyes.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| EyeColor

|- id="Gray eyes"
! Gray eyes [[File:Gene_GrayEyes.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have pale white-gray eyes.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]]
| EyeColor

|- id="No hair"
! No hair [[File:Gene_HairStyleBaldOnly.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow no hair on the head.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]] [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| HairStyle

|- id="Short-haired"
! Short-haired [[File:Gene_HairStyleShortOnly.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene can only grow short hair.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| HairStyle

|- id="Long-haired"
! Long-haired [[File:Gene_HairStyleLongOnly.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow hair on the head very quickly.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| HairStyle

|- id="Only bushy beards"
! Only bushy beards [[File:Gene_BeardStyleBushyOnly.png|64px]]
| ''Male carriers of this gene experience rapid beard growth and are uncomfortable cutting their beards.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| BeardStyle

|- id="Beardless"
! Beardless [[File:Gene_BeardStyleNone.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow no facial hair.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]] [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| BeardStyle

|- id="Unisex beards"
! Unisex beards [[File:Gene_UnisexBeards.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene always have thick facial hair, even women.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| BeardStyle

|- id="Human ears"
! Human ears [[File:Gene_EarHuman.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have regular human ears.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Ears

|- id="Pointed ears"
! Pointed ears [[File:Gene_EarPointed.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have pointed ears.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Ears

|- id="Cat ears"
! Cat ears [[File:Gene_EarCat.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have cat-like ears.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Ears

|- id="Floppy ears"
! Floppy ears [[File:Gene_EarFloppy.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow long, floppy hound-like ears.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Ears

|- id="Pig ears"
! Pig ears [[File:Gene_EarPig.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene will grow pointed pig-like ears.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| Ears

|- id="Human nose"
! Human nose [[File:Gene_NoseHuman.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have regular human noses.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Nose

|- id="Human jaw"
! Human jaw [[File:Gene_JawBaseline.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have regularly-shaped jaws.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Jaw

|- id="Heavy jaw"
! Heavy jaw [[File:Gene_JawHeavy.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have large jaws.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| Jaw

|- id="Gaunt head"
! Gaunt head [[File:Gene_GauntHead.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a pinched, gaunt appearance in their face and head.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| Jaw

|- id="Heavy brow"
! Heavy brow [[File:Gene_HeavyBrow.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a prominent brow.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| -

|- id="Center-horn"
! Center-horn [[File:Gene_HeadboneCenterhorn.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow a single horn protruding from the center of the forehead.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Headbone

|- id="Mini-horns"
! Mini-horns [[File:Gene_HeadboneMinihorns.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow two small horns protruding from the forehead.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| Headbone

|- id="Human headbone"
! Human headbone [[File:Gene_HeadboneHuman.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have regular human skulls.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Headbone

|- id="Human voice"
! Human voice [[File:Gene_VoiceHuman.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have regular human vocal chords{{sic}}.'' [[File:Speech_Male_R&D_v4_28.wav]]
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Voice

|- id="Pig voice"
! Pig voice [[File:Gene_VoicePig.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers have a squealing voice like that of a pig.'' [[File:Pawn_Pigskin_Call_02e.wav ]]
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| Voice

|- id="Roar voice"
! Roar voice [[File:Gene_VoiceRoar.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers have an animal-like roaring voice.'' [[File:Roar_Voice_Call_B02.wav]]
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| Voice

|- id="Facial ridges"
! Facial ridges [[File:Gene_FacialRidges.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow raised ridges of skin on their face.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| -
|}
</div>
</div>
</li></div>

=== Body type ===
Since people without these genes can have any of the four body types, these genes effectively limit what body types a xenotype can have. For example, [[File:Neanderthal.png|20px|link=Neanderthals]][[Neanderthals]] cannot be thin, because they have all three of the other genes.

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{| {{STDT| sortable c_17 text-valign:top}}
! Name
! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Exclude

|- id="Standard body"
! Standard body [[File:Gene_BodyStandard.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers can have average-shaped bodies. A person can have more than one body type gene; one body type will be chosen among those that are allowed.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]] [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]] [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| BodyType

|- id="Thin body"
! Thin body [[File:Gene_BodyThin.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers can have thin bodies. A person can have more than one body type gene; one body type will be chosen among those that are allowed.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]] [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| BodyType

|- id="Fat body"
! Fat body [[File:Gene_BodyFat.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers can have fat bodies. A person can have more than one body type gene; one body type will be chosen among those that are allowed.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]] [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| BodyType

|- id="Hulk body"
! Hulk body [[File:Gene_BodyHulk.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers can have large bodies. A person can have more than one body type gene; one body type will be chosen among those that are allowed.''
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]] [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]] [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]] [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| BodyType
|}
</div>
</div>
</li></div>

=== Hair ===
These genes are defined in Core, not Biotech.

All of them have a "random brightness factor" of 0.12 unless otherwise specified.

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{| {{STDT| sortable c_17 text-valign:top}}
! Name
! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! Weight
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Exclude

|- id="Snow-white hair"
! Snow-white hair [[File:Hair_SnowWhite.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (250, 250, 250)
* Random brightness factor: 0
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| HairColor

|- id="Gray hair"
! Gray hair [[File:Hair_Grey.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (0.65, 0.65, 0.65)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.02
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| HairColor

|- id="Blonde hair"
! Blonde hair [[File:Hair_Blonde.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (237, 202, 156)
* Selection weight factor with dark skin: 0
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 1?
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Sandy-blonde hair"
! Sandy-blonde hair [[File:Hair_SandyBlonde.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (193, 146, 85)
* Selection weight factor with dark skin: 0
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 1?
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| HairColor

|- id="Orange hair"
! Orange hair [[File:Hair_Orange.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (189, 133, 49)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| HairColor

|- id="Reddish-brown hair"
! Reddish-brown hair [[File:Hair_ReddishBrown.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (132, 83, 47)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 1?
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Brown hair"
! Brown hair [[File:Hair_Brown.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (90, 58, 32)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 1?
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Dark-brown hair"
! Dark-brown hair [[File:Hair_DarkBrown.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (56, 36, 18)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 1.5
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Dark-reddish hair"
! Dark-reddish hair [[File:Hair_DarkReddish.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (0.25, 0.2, 0.15)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 1.5
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Mid-black hair"
! Mid-black hair [[File:Hair_MidBlack.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (0.31, 0.28, 0.26)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 1.5
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Dark-black hair"
! Dark-black hair [[File:Hair_DarkBlack.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (0.2, 0.2, 0.2)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 1.5
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Ink-black hair"
! Ink-black hair [[File:Hair_InkBlack.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (25, 25, 25)
* Random brightness factor: 0
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Blue hair"
! Blue hair [[File:Hair_Blue.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (34, 63, 227)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Teal hair"
! Teal hair [[File:Hair_Teal.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (52, 191, 182)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Green hair"
! Green hair [[File:Hair_Green.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (72, 201, 40)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Pink hair"
! Pink hair [[File:Hair_Pink.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (191, 86, 149)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Purple hair"
! Purple hair [[File:Hair_Purple.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (227, 115, 255)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| -
| HairColor

|- id="Red hair"
! Red hair [[File:Hair_Red.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Hair color override: (191, 86, 86)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.05
| -
| HairColor
|}
</div>
</div>
</li></div>

=== Melanin ===

These natural skin colors are '''not available in the xenotype editor and cannot be extracted'''. Every person gets one of these as a germline gene unless they already have a skin-color germline gene (e.g. [[File:Dirtmole.png|20px|link=Dirtmoles]][[Dirtmoles]] have light gray skin instead of these).

These genes are defined in Core, not Biotech. They are all named "Skin color" in-game.

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{| {{STDT| sortable c_17 text-valign:top}}
! Name
! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! Weight
! Exclude

|- id="Skin_Melanin1"
! Skin_Melanin1 [[File:Skin_Melanin1.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (242, 237, 224)
* Min melanin: 0
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.2
| SkinColor

|- id="Skin_Melanin2"
! Skin_Melanin2 [[File:Skin_Melanin2.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (255, 239, 213)
* Min melanin: 0.1
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.5
| SkinColor

|- id="Skin_Melanin3"
! Skin_Melanin3 [[File:Skin_Melanin3.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (255, 239, 201)
* Min melanin: 0.25
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.5
| SkinColor

|- id="Skin_Melanin4"
! Skin_Melanin4 [[File:Skin_Melanin4.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (255, 239, 189)
* Min melanin: 0.45
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.5
| SkinColor

|- id="Skin_Melanin5"
! Skin_Melanin5 [[File:Skin_Melanin5.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (249, 219, 165)
* Min melanin: 0.58
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0? 1?
| SkinColor

|- id="Skin_Melanin6"
! Skin_Melanin6 [[File:Skin_Melanin6.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (242, 199, 140)
* Min melanin: 0.63
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0? 1?
| SkinColor

|- id="Skin_Melanin7"
! Skin_Melanin7 [[File:Skin_Melanin7.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (228, 158, 90)
* Min melanin: 0.75
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0? 1?
| SkinColor

|- id="Skin_Melanin8"
! Skin_Melanin8 [[File:Skin_Melanin8.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (130, 91, 48)
* Min melanin: 0.83
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.5
| SkinColor

|- id="Skin_Melanin9"
! Skin_Melanin9 [[File:Skin_Melanin9.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have a particular skin color. With multiple skin color genes, one is randomly selected.''
----
* Skin color base: (99, 70, 36)
* Min melanin: 0.9
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| 0.2
| SkinColor
|}
</div>
</div>
</li></div>

=== Skin ===
These exotic (non-natural) skin colors do not appear on anyone without the gene. Like body type genes and hair genes, a person can have more than one skin color gene (e.g. [[File:Impid.png|20px|link=Impids]][[Impids]] have three), and one will be chosen.

All of these genes have a "random brightness factor" of 0.18 unless otherwise specified.

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{| {{STDT| sortable c_17 text-valign:top}}
! Name
! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Exclude

|- id="Green skin"
! Green skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Green.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that gives their skin a green color.''
----
* Skin color override: (169,182,108)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Deep yellow skin"
! Deep yellow skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Yellow_Deep.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that gives their skin a deep yellow color.''
----
* Skin color override: (204, 199, 65)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Pale yellow skin"
! Pale yellow skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Yellow_Pale.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that turns their skin a grayish yellow color.''
----
* Skin color override: (193, 165, 99)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Orange skin"
! Orange skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Orange.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that gives their skin an orange color.''
----
* Skin color override: (210, 114, 63)
* Random brightness factor: 0
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Deep red skin"
! Deep red skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Red_Deep.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a deep-red pigment that gives their skin an almost bloody appearance.''
----
* Skin color override: (150, 62, 62)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Pale red skin"
! Pale red skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Red_Pale.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that turns their skin a moderate red color.''
----
* Skin color override: (222, 106, 106)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Purple skin"
! Purple skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Purple.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that gives their skin a purple color.''
----
* Skin color override: (97, 87, 195)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Blue skin"
! Blue skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Blue.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that turns their skin a blue color.''
----
* Skin color override: (100, 165, 193)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Sheer white skin"
! Sheer white skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_White.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have sheer white skin, unlike natural skin tones, due to a special engineered reflective cell covering.''
----
* Skin color override: (250, 240, 240)
* Random brightness factor: 0
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Light gray skin"
! Light gray skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Light_Gray.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this produce a light-gray pigment in their skin.''
----
* Skin color override: (200, 200, 200)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]]
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Slate gray skin"
! Slate gray skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Gray.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that turns their skin slate gray.''
----
* Skin color override: (90, 90, 90)
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| SkinColorOverride

|- id="Ink black skin"
! Ink black skin [[File:FanGene_SkinColor_Black.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that turns their skin a pale black color almost as dark as ink.''
----
* Skin color override: (55, 55, 55)
* Random brightness factor: 0
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| SkinColorOverride
|}
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== Miscellaneous ==
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{| {{STDT| sortable c_17 text-valign:top}}
! Name
! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Exclude

|- id="Strong stomach"
! Strong stomach [[File:Gene_StrongStomach.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have an extra toxin-filtering organ in their stomach and will never suffer from food poisoning even after eating rotten food.''
----
* Immune to [[food poisoning]]. {{Check Tag|Existing conditions?|Does it cure existing food poisonings? If so, note specifically, if not, copy formatting from Perfect Immunity above}}
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| -

|- id="Robust digestion"
! Robust digestion [[File:Gene_RobustDigestion.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow a multi-fold stomach, allowing them to digest raw foods more efficiently than baseline humans. In general, they get the same nutrition from raw food as from if it is cooked. They also don't mind the taste of raw food at all.''
----
* [[Raw Nutrition Multiplier]] {{Good|×180%}}
** Note: Does not apply to [[insect jelly]] or fertilized [[eggs]]. ''Does'' apply to unfertilized eggs.
* Removes mood: Ate raw food: -7
* Note: Does ''not'' prevent [[food poisoning]].
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| -

|- id="Slow study"
! Slow study [[File:Gene_SlowLearning.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have deficient long-term memories and don't understand new ideas quickly. They are slow at learning new skills and knowledge.''
----
* [[Global Learning Factor]] {{Bad|×50%}}
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| Learning

|- id="Quick study"
! Quick study [[File:Gene_FastLearning.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have excellent memories and grasp new ideas quickly. They learn faster than others.''
----
* [[Global Learning Factor]] {{+|50%}}
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Learning

|- id="Nearsighted"
! Nearsighted [[File:Gene_Nearsighted.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have difficulty seeing at a distance. Their shooting accuracy at long ranges is reduced.''
----
* Accuracy factor (long) {{Bad|×25%}}
* Accuracy factor (medium) {{Bad|×50%}}
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]] [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| ShootingAccuracy

|- id="Dark vision"
! Dark vision [[File:Gene_Darkvision.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene see well in low light and are unaffected by mood penalties related to darkness. They have a reflective layer behind the retina that amplifies their ability to see in the dark.''
----
* Negates the [[Global Work Speed]] penalty from [[Light|darkness]].
* Negates the [[Move Speed]] penalty from darkness. '''Note:''' This effect is not mentioned by the in-game description
* Removes [[mood]]: Darkness: {{--|5}}
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]] [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| -

|- id="Inbred"
! Inbred [[File:Gene_Inbred.png|64px]]
| ''This genetic condition affects a person's fertility, immunity, and mental capacity.''
----
* Forced trait: [[Slow learner]]
* [[Fertility]] {{Bad|×50%}}
* [[Immunity gain speed]] {{Bad|×85%}}
* Note: Despite being harmful, this gene also lowers metabolic efficiency.
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| -

|- id="Mild cell instability"
! Mild cell instability [[File:Gene_MildCellInstability.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene need less metabolic energy to stay alive, at the cost of reduced stability in their cell-replication machinery.''
----
* [[Lifespan Factor]] {{Bad|×80%}}
** Note this means age-related diseases come earlier, e.g. [[Ailments#Frail|Frail]] can happen at 40 instead of 50
* [[Cancer Rate Factor]] {{Bad|×300%}}
* [[Immunity gain speed]] {{Bad|×96%}}
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| CellInstability

|- id="Major cell instability"
! Major cell instability [[File:Gene_MajorCellInstability.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene need much less metabolic energy to stay alive, at the cost of greatly-reduced stability in their cell-replication machinery.''
----
* [[Lifespan Factor]] {{Bad|×60%}}
** Note this means age-related diseases come earlier, e.g. [[Ailments#Frail|Frail]] can happen at 30 instead of 50
* [[Cancer Rate Factor]] {{Bad|×500%}}
* [[Immunity gain speed]] {{Bad|×92%}}
| {{+|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| CellInstability

|- id="Grayless hair"
! Grayless hair [[File:Gene_GreylessHair.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene keep their natural hair color as they age.''
----
* No age-related gray hair.
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| -

|- id="Human hands"
! Human hands [[File:Gene_HandsHuman.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have regular human hands.''
----
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| -
| Hands

|- id="Trotter hands"
! Trotter hands [[File:Gene_HandsTrotter.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have hands that partially resemble pig trotters. This reduces their ability to manipulate objects.''
----
* [[Manipulation]] {{Bad|×85%}}
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| Hands

|- id="Elongated fingers"
! Elongated fingers [[File:Gene_ElongatedFingers.png|64px]]
| ''Long, delicate fingers improve the carrier's manipulation capacity. This aids with many tasks, especially crafting and construction.''
----
* [[Manipulation]] {{Good|×110%}}
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]]
| Hands

|- id="Furskin"
! Furskin [[File:Gene_Furskin.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow thick fur all over their body, which protects them from cold temperatures.''
----
* [[Minimum Comfortable Temperature]]: {{---|{{temperature|10||delta}}}}
* [[Social#Romance_Controls|Non-furskin romance chance]] ×20%
* {{RimworldIcon}}Removes mood: Naked: -6
* {{IdeologyIcon}}Removes mood: Uncovered (body part): -4
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| HairStyle Fur BeardStyle 

|- id="Pig nose"
! Pig nose [[File:Gene_NosePig.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene have pig-like snouts.''
----
* [[Social#Romance_Controls|Non-pig nose romance chance]] ×20%
| '''0'''
| '''0'''
| [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]]
| Nose

|- id="Pollution stimulus"
! Pollution stimulus [[File:Gene_PollutionRush.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene get a chemical rush from being exposed to pollution. This makes them move faster and helps them think clearer. A similar gene is found in combat-engineered mega-insects.''
----
* Gain stat bonuses when exposed to pollution.
** Increases move speed and consciousness. See [[Pollution stimulus]] for full details.
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| -

|- id="Unstoppable"
! Unstoppable [[File:Gene_Unstoppable.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene are not slowed down when taking damage.''
----
* [[Stagger Time Multiplier]] {{Good|×0%}}
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| -

|- id="Furry tail"
! Furry tail [[File:Gene_TailFurry.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow a fluffy tail which partially protects them from cold temperatures.''
----
* [[Minimum Comfortable Temperature]]: {{Good|{{temperature|-10||delta}}}}
* Adds an aesthetic only tail to the pawn's sprite
* Note: Does '''not''' add a targetable or damageable [[body part]]
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| Tail

|- id="Smooth tail"
! Smooth tail [[File:Gene_TailSmooth.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene grow a slender tail that can act as a dexterous fifth limb.''
----
* [[Manipulation]]: {{+|5%}}
* Adds an aesthetic only tail to the pawn's sprite
* Note: Does '''not''' add a targetable or damageable [[body part]]
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| Tail

|}
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== Aptitudes ==
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{| {{STDT| sortable c_17 text-valign:top}}
! Name
! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
! Skill

|- id="Awful animals"
! Awful Animals [[File:Gene_AwfulAnimals.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Animals is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Animals.''
----
* [[Skills#Animals|Animals]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Skills#Animals|Animals]]
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]] [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| Animals

|- id="Awful artistic"
! Awful Artistic [[File:Gene_AwfulArtistic.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Artistic is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Artistic.''
----
* [[Artistic]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Artistic]]
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| Artistic

|- id="Awful construction"
! Awful Construction [[File:Gene_AwfulConstruction.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Construction is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Construction.''
----
* [[Construction]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Construction]]
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Construction

|- id="Awful cooking"
! Awful Cooking [[File:Gene_AwfulCooking.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Cooking is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Cooking.''
----
* [[Cooking]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Cooking]]
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Cooking

|- id="Awful crafting"
! Awful Crafting [[File:Gene_AwfulCrafting.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Crafting is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Crafting.''
----
* [[Crafting]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Crafting]]
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Crafting

|- id="Awful medical"
! Awful Medical [[File:Gene_AwfulMedical.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Medical is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Medical.''
----
* [[Medical]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Medical]]
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Medical

|- id="Awful melee"
! Awful Melee [[File:Gene_AwfulMelee.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Melee is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Melee.''
----
* [[Melee]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Melee]]
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Melee

|- id="Awful mining"
! Awful Mining [[File:Gene_AwfulMining.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Mining is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Mining.''
----
* [[Mining]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Mining]]
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]] [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| Mining

|- id="Awful intellectual"
! Awful Intellectual [[File:Gene_AwfulIntellectual.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Intellectual is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Intellectual.''
----
* [[Intellectual]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Intellectual]]
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Intellectual

|- id="Awful plants"
! Awful Plants [[File:Gene_AwfulPlants.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Plants is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Plants.''
----
* [[Skills#Plants|Plants]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Skills#Plants|Plants]]
| {{+|2}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]] [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| Plants

|- id="Awful shooting"
! Awful Shooting [[File:Gene_AwfulShooting.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Shooting is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Shooting.''
----
* [[Shooting]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Shooting]]
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
| Shooting

|- id="Awful social"
! Awful Social [[File:Gene_AwfulSocial.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Social is reduced by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, all passion is removed from Social.''
----
* [[Skills#Social|Social]]: {{--|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Removes all [[passion]]s for [[Skills#Social|Social]]
| {{+|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]] [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| Social

|- id="Poor animals"
! Poor Animals [[File:Gene_PoorAnimals.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Animals is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Skills#Animals|Animals]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]] [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| Animals

|- id="Poor artistic"
! Poor Artistic [[File:Gene_PoorArtistic.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Artistic is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Artistic]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| Artistic

|- id="Poor construction"
! Poor Construction [[File:Gene_PoorConstruction.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Construction is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Construction]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Construction

|- id="Poor cooking"
! Poor Cooking [[File:Gene_PoorCooking.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Cooking is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Cooking]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:PigskinXenotype.png|32px|link=Pigskins]] [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
| Cooking

|- id="Poor crafting"
! Poor Crafting [[File:Gene_PoorCrafting.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Crafting is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Crafting]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Crafting

|- id="Poor medical"
! Poor Medical [[File:Gene_PoorMedical.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Medical is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Medical]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Medical

|- id="Poor melee"
! Poor Melee [[File:Gene_PoorMelee.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Melee is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Melee]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Melee

|- id="Poor mining"
! Poor Mining [[File:Gene_PoorMining.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Mining is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Mining]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| -
| Mining

|- id="Poor intellectual"
! Poor Intellectual [[File:Gene_PoorIntellectual.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Intellectual is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Intellectual]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| Intellectual

|- id="Poor plants"
! Poor Plants [[File:Gene_PoorPlants.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Plants is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Skills#Plants|Plants]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
|{{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]] [[File:Impid.png|32px|link=Impids]]
| Plants

|- id="Poor shooting"
! Poor Shooting [[File:Gene_PoorShooting.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Shooting is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Shooting]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| Shooting

|- id="Poor social"
! Poor Social [[File:Gene_PoorSocial.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Social is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Skills#Social|Social]]: {{--|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{+|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Neanderthal.png|32px|link=Neanderthals]]
| Social

|- id="Strong animals"
! Strong Animals [[File:Gene_StrongAnimals.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Animals is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Skills#Animals|Animals]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Animals

|- id="Strong artistic"
! Strong Artistic [[File:Gene_StrongArtistic.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Artistic is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Artistic]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Artistic

|- id="Strong construction"
! Strong Construction [[File:Gene_StrongConstruction.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Construction is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Construction]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|2}}
| -
| Construction

|- id="Strong cooking"
! Strong Cooking [[File:Gene_StrongCooking.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Cooking is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Cooking]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|2}}
| -
| Cooking

|- id="Strong crafting"
! Strong Crafting [[File:Gene_StrongCrafting.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Crafting is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Crafting]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|2}}
| -
| Crafting

|- id="Strong medical"
! Strong Medical [[File:Gene_StrongMedical.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Medical is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Medical]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|2}}
| -
| Medical

|- id="Strong melee"
! Strong Melee [[File:Gene_StrongMelee.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Melee is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Melee]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| Melee

|- id="Strong mining"
! Strong Mining [[File:Gene_StrongMining.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Mining is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Mining]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|2}}
| -
| Mining

|- id="Strong intellectual"
! Strong Intellectual [[File:Gene_StrongIntellectual.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Intellectual is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Intellectual]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| Intellectual

|- id="Strong plants"
! Strong Plants [[File:Gene_StrongPlants.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Plants is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Skills#Plants|Plants]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
|{{Bad|2}}
| -
| Plants

|- id="Strong shooting"
! Strong Shooting [[File:Gene_StrongShooting.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Shooting is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Shooting]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Shooting

|- id="Strong social"
! Strong Social [[File:Gene_StrongSocial.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Social is increased by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level.''
----
* [[Skills#Social|Social]]: {{+|4}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Sanguophage.png|32px|link=Sanguophages]]
| Social

|- id="Great animals"
! Great Animals [[File:Gene_GreatAnimals.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Animals is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Animals.''
----
* [[Skills#Animals|Animals]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Skills#Animals|Animals]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Yttakin.png|32px|link=Yttakin]]
| Animals{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great artistic"
! Great Artistic [[File:Gene_GreatArtistic.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Artistic is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Artistic.''
----
* [[Artistic]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Artistic]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Artistic{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great construction"
! Great Construction [[File:Gene_GreatConstruction.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Construction is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Construction.''
----
* [[Construction]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Construction]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Construction{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great cooking"
! Great Cooking [[File:Gene_GreatCooking.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Cooking is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Cooking.''
----
* [[Cooking]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Cooking]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Cooking{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great crafting"
! Great Crafting [[File:Gene_GreatCrafting.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Crafting is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Crafting.''
----
* [[Crafting]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Crafting]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]]
| Crafting{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great medical"
! Great Medical [[File:Gene_GreatMedical.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Medical is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Medical.''
----
* [[Medical]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Medical]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Medical{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great melee"
! Great Melee [[File:Gene_GreatMelee.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Melee is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Melee.''
----
* [[Melee]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Melee]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| Melee{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great mining"
! Great Mining [[File:Gene_GreatMining.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Mining is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Mining.''
----
* [[Mining]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Mining]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Dirtmole.png|32px|link=Dirtmoles]]
| Mining{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great intellectual"
! Great Intellectual [[File:Gene_GreatIntellectual.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Intellectual is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Intellectual.''
----
* [[Intellectual]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Intellectual]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Genie.png|32px|link=Genies]]
| Intellectual{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great plants"
! Great Plants [[File:Gene_GreatPlants.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Plants is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Plants.''
----
* [[Skills#Plants|Plants]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Skills#Plants|Plants]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
| Plants{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great shooting"
! Great Shooting [[File:Gene_GreatShooting.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Shooting is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Shooting.''
----
* [[Shooting]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Shooting]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
| Shooting{{ref label|Passion|A}}

|- id="Great social"
! Great Social [[File:Gene_GreatSocial.png|64px]]
| ''The carrier's aptitude in Social is increased by 8. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Additionally, one level of passion is added to Social.''
----
* [[Skills#Social|Social]]: {{+|8}}. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.
* Adds one additional [[passion]] for [[Skills#Social|Social]]
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Highmate.png|32px|link=Highmates]]
| Social{{ref label|Passion|A}}
|}
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:{{note|Passion|A}} If overridden by strong or poor aptitude gene, passion from great aptitude gene is added anyway.

== Drugs ==
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{{Recode|section=1|reason=The patch notes for 1.5 say that drug-related genes no longer prevent overdose across all drugs. Verify if true, then edit this section to reflect the change}}
There are one of each of these for each drug, except for [[ambrosia]], [[luciferium]] and [[penoxycyline]].

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! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Baseliner.png|20px|link=Xenotypes]]
|- id="Alcohol resistant"
! Alcohol resistant [[File:AddictionResistant Alcohol.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers are only half as likely to become addicted to Alcohol.''
----
* [[Beer|Alcohol]] addiction factor: ×50%
* Alcohol tolerance gain: ×50%
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
|- id="Smokeleaf resistant"
! Smokeleaf resistant [[File:AddictionResistant Smokeleaf.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers are only half as likely to become addicted to Smokeleaf.''
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* [[Smokeleaf joint|Smokeleaf]] addiction factor: ×50%
* Smokeleaf tolerance gain: ×50%
| {{--|1}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
|- id="Psychite resistant"
! Psychite resistant [[File:AddictionResistant Psychite.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers are only half as likely to become addicted to Psychite.''
----
* [[Psychite]] addiction factor: ×50%
* Psychite tolerance gain: ×50%
* Overdose chance: ×50% {{Check Tag|Random or All|Random overdoses only or cumulative ODs?}}
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
|- id="Go-juice resistant"
! Go-juice resistant [[File:AddictionResistant Go Juice.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers are only half as likely to become addicted to Go-juice.''
----
* [[Go-juice]] addiction factor: ×50%
* Overdose chance: ×50% {{Check Tag|Random or All|Random overdoses only or cumulative ODs?}}
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
|- id="Wake-up resistant"
! Wake-up resistant [[File:AddictionResistant Wake Up.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers are only half as likely to become addicted to Wake-up.''
----
* [[Wake-up]] addiction factor: ×50%
* Overdose chance: ×50% {{Check Tag|Only this drug?}} {{Check Tag|Random or All?|Random overdoses only or cumulative ODs?}}
| {{--|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
|- id="Alcohol impervious"
! Alcohol impervious [[File:AddictionImmune Alcohol.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene never get addicted to Alcohol.''
----
* Alcohol addiction factor: x0%
* Tolerance build-up for Alcohol: -100%
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
|- id="Smokeleaf impervious"
! Smokeleaf impervious [[File:AddictionImmune Smokeleaf.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene never get addicted to Smokeleaf.''
----
* Smokeleaf addiction factor: x0%
* Tolerance build-up for Smokeleaf: -100%
| {{--|3}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
|- id="Psychite impervious"
! Psychite impervious [[File:AddictionImmune Psychite.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene never get addicted to Psychite.''
----
* Psychite addiction factor: x0%
* Tolerance build-up for Psychite: ×0%
* Cumulative [[overdose|overdose severity]] and random, per-dose overdose chance from Psychite based drugs eliminated.
| {{--|5}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
|- id="Go-juice impervious"
! Go-juice impervious [[File:AddictionImmune Go Juice.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene never get addicted to Go-juice.''
----
* Go-juice addiction factor: x0%
* Cumulative [[overdose|overdose severity]] and random, per-dose overdose chance from Go-juice eliminated.
| {{--|5}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| -
|- id="Wake-up impervious"
! Wake-up impervious [[File:AddictionImmune Wake Up.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene never get addicted to Wake-up.''
----
* Wake-up addiction factor: x0%
* Cumulative [[overdose|overdose severity]] and random, per-dose overdose chance from Wake-up eliminated.

| {{--|5}}
| {{Bad|2}}
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
|- id="Alcohol dependency"
! Alcohol dependency [[File:ChemicalDependency Alcohol.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene need to ingest alcohol on a regular basis to survive. After 5 days without alcohol, carriers will suffer from drug deficiency. After 30 days, they will fall into a coma. After 60 days, they will die.''
----

* Teetotalers will take the required drug without penalties, but ideoligion can still block taking them.
* Chemical dependency severity increases by 0.2 per day. Reduced to 0% upon taking [[beer]]. {{Check Tag|Mood?|How do the mood penalties work? Increase per day? Increase per new severity step?}}
** '''Severity 1 (5 days):''' [[Consciousness]] {{Bad|70% max}}, [[Moving]] {{Bad|80% max}}, [[Manipulation]] {{Bad|50% max}},
** '''Severity 6 (30 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|10% max}} (Unconsciousness)
** '''Severity 12 (60 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|0% max}} ([[Death]]) 
* Alcohol addiction factor: x0%

* Teetotalers can take the required drug without penalties. However, [[ideoligion]]s against drug use will apply the {{--|15}} ''Used drug'' moodlet.
* Children under 13 do not get any of the ill effects from not using these drugs. The timer for penalties only starts on their 13th birthday.
| {{+|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
|- id="Smokeleaf dependency"
! Smokeleaf dependency [[File:ChemicalDependency Smokeleaf.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene need to ingest Smokeleaf on a regular basis to survive. After 5 days without smokeleaf, carriers will suffer from smokeleaf deficiency. After 30 days, they will fall into a coma. After 60 days, they will die.''
----

* Teetotalers will take the required drug without penalties, but ideoligion can still block taking them.
* Chemical dependency severity increases by 0.2 per day. Reduced to 0% upon taking a [[smokeleaf joint]]. {{Check Tag|Mood?|How do the mood penalties work? Increase per day? Increase per new severity step?}}
** '''Severity 1 (5 days):''' [[Consciousness]] {{Bad|70% max}}, [[Moving]] {{Bad|80% max}}, [[Manipulation]] {{Bad|50% max}},
** '''Severity 6 (30 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|10% max}} (Unconsciousness)
** '''Severity 12 (60 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|0% max}} ([[Death]]) 
* Smokeleaf addiction factor: x0%

* Teetotalers can take the required drug without penalties. However, [[ideoligion]]s against drug use will apply the {{--|15}} ''Used drug'' moodlet.
* Children under 13 do not get any of the ill effects from not using these drugs. The timer for penalties only starts on their 13th birthday.
| {{+|3}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
|- id="Psychite dependency"
! Psychite dependency [[File:ChemicalDependency Psychite.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene need to ingest psychite on a regular basis to survive. After 5 days without Psychite, carriers will suffer from psychite deficiency. After 30 days, they will fall into a coma. After 60 days, they will die.''
----

* Chemical dependency severity increases by 0.2 per day. Reduced to 0 upon taking [[psychite tea]], [[flake]], or [[yayo]]. {{Check Tag|Mood?|How do the mood penalties work? Increase per day? Increase per new severity step?}}
** '''Severity 1 (5 days):''' [[Consciousness]] {{Bad|70% max}}, [[Moving]] {{Bad|80% max}}, [[Manipulation]] {{Bad|50% max}},
** '''Severity 6 (30 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|10% max}} (Unconsciousness)
** '''Severity 12 (60 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|0% max}} ([[Death]]) 
* Psychite addiction factor: x0%
* Psychite overdose chance: ×0%{{Check Tag|Only this drug?}} Cumulative [[overdose|overdose severity]] is not prevented.

* Teetotalers can take the required drug without penalties. However, [[ideoligion]]s against drug use will apply the {{--|15}} ''Used drug'' moodlet.
* Children under 13 do not get any of the ill effects from not using these drugs. The timer for penalties only starts on their 13th birthday.
| {{+|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| [[File:Waster.png|32px|link=Wasters]]
|- id="Go-juice dependency"
! Go-juice dependency [[File:ChemicalDependency Go Juice.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene need to ingest Go-juice on a regular basis to survive. After 5 days without Go-juice, carriers will suffer from Go-juice deficiency. After 30 days, they will fall into a coma. After 60 days, they will die.''
----
? 
* Chemical dependency severity increases by 0.2 per day. Reduced to 0 upon taking [[go-juice]]. {{Check Tag|Mood?|How do the mood penalties work? Increase per day? Increase per new severity step?}}
** '''Severity 1 (5 days):''' [[Consciousness]] {{Bad|70% max}}, [[Moving]] {{Bad|80% max}}, [[Manipulation]] {{Bad|50% max}},
** '''Severity 6 (30 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|10% max}} (Unconsciousness)
** '''Severity 12 (60 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|0% max}} ([[Death]]) 
* Go-juice addiction factor: x0%
* Go-juice overdose chance: ×0%. {{Check Tag|Only this drug?}} Cumulative [[overdose|overdose severity]] from taking multiple drugs is not prevented.

* Teetotalers can take the required drug without penalties. However, [[ideoligion]]s against drug use will apply the {{--|15}} ''Used drug'' moodlet.
* Children under 13 do not get any of the ill effects from not using these drugs. The timer for penalties only starts on their 13th birthday.
| {{+|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| | [[File:Hussar.png|32px|link=Hussars]]
|- id="Wake-up dependency"
! Wake-up dependency [[File:ChemicalDependency Wake Up.png|64px]]
| ''Carriers of this gene need to ingest wake-up on a regular basis to survive. After 5 days without wake-up, carriers will suffer from wake-up deficiency. After 30 days, they will fall into a coma. After 60 days, they will die.''
---- 
* Chemical dependency severity increases by 0.2 per day. Reduced to 0 upon taking [[wake-up]]. {{Check Tag|Mood?|How do the mood penalties work? Increase per day? Increase per new severity step?}}
** '''Severity 1 (5 days):''' [[Consciousness]] {{Bad|70% max}}, [[Moving]] {{Bad|80% max}}, [[Manipulation]] {{Bad|50% max}}.
** '''Severity 6 (30 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|10% max}} (Unconsciousness)
** '''Severity 12 (60 days):''' Consciousness {{Bad|0% max}} ([[Death]]) 
* Wake-up addiction factor: x0%
* Wake-up overdose chance: ×0% {{Check Tag|Only this drug?}} Cumulative [[overdose|overdose severity]] from taking multiple drugs is not prevented.

* Teetotalers can take the required drug without penalties. However, [[ideoligion]]s against drug use will apply the {{--|15}} ''Used drug'' moodlet.
* Children under 13 do not get any of the ill effects from not using these drugs. The timer for penalties only starts on their 13th birthday.
| {{+|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| -
|}
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== Removed genes ==
This table contains genes that are no longer found as-is in the current game version. They may have been removed or migrated in an update, or cut during development before a release.

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! Description
! [[File:Metabolism.png|20px|Metabolism]]
! [[File:Complexity.png|20px|Complexity]]
! [[File:Archite capsule required.png|20px|Archite capsules]]
! Removed
! Reason

|- id="Resurrect"
! Resurrect [[File:Gene Resurrect.png|64px]]
| Carriers have a reserve of unique resurrector archites which can infuse a corpse, rebuild degenerated tissue and kickstart the vital processes. This brings the dead back to life - though possibly with health issues. This can only be done very rarely, and comes at a steep hemogen cost.
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* Requires Hemogenic
* Adds ability: [[File:Resurrect gene ability.png|16px]] Resurrect
:''Use archites in the bloodstream to infuse a corpse's body with new life, repairing degenerated cell structures and kickstarting vital functions. The older and worse-preserved the corpse is, the more likely it is that they will come back with memory loss or health conditions. This ability seems to exhaust the archites somehow, so it can only be used very rarely.''
:* Resurrects the targeted corpse, similarly to [[Resurrector mech serum]]
:* Target: Any non-mechanoid corpse
:* Warmup Time: {{Ticks|2}}
:* Cooldown: {{Ticks/gametime/years|6840000}} to {{Ticks/gametime/years|7560000}}
:* Charges: 1
:* AI Can Use: False
* Market value of [[genepack]]s containing this gene: ×150%
| '''0'''
| {{Bad|4}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| Before [[Biotech DLC]] release
| Unknown.
|- id="Apathy"
! Skill apathy [[File:Skills PassionDrop Loop.gif|64px]]
| The carrier will have no passion in (skill).
| {{Good|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| '''-'''
| Before [[Biotech DLC]] release
| From an XML comment:
''"Removed since the downsides are too easy and boring to avoid, and synergize with skill loss genes too much. If you already aren't using the skill it's too easy to just kill passion on it too. -Ty"''
|- id="Drug addict-sensitive"
! Drug addict-sensitive
| Carriers of this gene get addicted to (drug) very easily.
* Specific drug addiction factor: x9999%
| {{Good|2}}
| {{Bad|1}}
| '''-'''
| Before [[Biotech DLC]] Release
| From an XML comment:
''"Removed since these just aren't very interesting, very narrow in application, and the downsides are too easy and boring to avoid. Just not much interaction or story here. -Ty"''
|}
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== Notes ==
* Certain genes will not be properly negated by other genes. For example, a drug dependency germline gene, while appearing to be negated by the same drug dependency as a xenogene, will instead cause the negative mood from the lack of the drug to start at 2.5 days instead of at 5 days.

== Version history ==
* [[Biotech DLC]] Release - Added.
* [[Version/1.4.3524|1.4.3524]] - Children no longer get adult body types from genes.
* [[Version/1.4.3525|1.4.3525]] - Fix: Suppressed genes contributing to romance chance still apply.
* [[Version/1.4.3527|1.4.3527]] - Fix: Never sleep xenohumans still rest when caravanning alone.
* [[Version/1.4.3530|1.4.3530]] - Fix: Removing passion-adding genes doesn't revert effect.
* [[Version/1.4.3531|1.4.3531]] - Fix: AI sanguophages can use longjump without any remaining hemogen. Increase the effect of the temperature genes. From {{Bad|3}}/?{{Check Tag|Value?}}/{{Good|10}} to {{Bad|5}}/{{Good|10}}/{{Good|20}}. Fix: Some hemogenic abilities can be queued without enough hemogen.
* [[Version/1.4.3534|1.4.3534]] - Fix: Melanin genes can be extracted by gene extractor.
* [[Version/1.4.3541|1.4.3541]] - Fix: Victims of bloodfeeder bites can gain hemogen from the interaction.
* [[Version/1.4.3542|1.4.3542]] - Fix: Coagulate can still be queued if hemogen is below casting cost.
* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] -
** [[#Psychic bonding|Psychic bond]] now gives +10% [[psychic sensitivity]], or +5% if on different maps. Hediff description changed from ''This person has a psychic bond with another person based on the psychic bonding gene.'' to ''This person has a psychic bond with another person based on the psychic bonding gene. The bond itself grants some limited psychic awareness, allowing it to connect even with the psychically deaf''. Bonds can now be created during lovin' allowing pawns already in a relationship when the gene was implanted to bond.
**Many genes now give direct boosts instead of forcing traits, which allows genes and traits to stack:
*** '''Depressive''' gene renamed to [[#Very unhappy|Very unhappy]], no longer forces [[Depressive]] trait instead decreases mood by {{--|10}}. '''Pessimist''' gene renamed to [[#Unhappy|Unhappy]], no longer forces [[Pessimist]] trait instead decreases mood by {{--|5}}. '''Optimist''' gene renamed to [[#Happy|Happy]], no longer forces [[Optimist]] trait instead increases mood by {{+|5}}. '''Sanguine''' gene renamed to [[#Very happy|Very happy]], no longer forces [[Sanguine]] trait instead increases mood by {{+|10}}.
*** [[#Slow runner|Slow runner]] no longer forces [[Slowpoke]] trait instead decreases move speed by {{--|0.2}} {{CS}}. [[#Fast runner|Fast runner]] no longer forces [[Fast walker]] trait instead increases move speed by {{+|0.2}} {{CS}}. [[#Very fast runner|Very fast runner]] no longer forces [[Jogger]] trait instead increases move speed by {{+|0.4}} {{CS}}.
***'''Slow learner''' renamed to [[#Slow study|Slow study]], no longer forces [[Slow learner]] trait instead multiplies [[Global Learning Factor]] {{Bad|×50%}}. '''Fast learner''' renamed to [[#Quick study|Quick study]], no longer forces [[Fast learner]] trait instead increases [[Global Learning Factor]] {{+|50%}}.
*** '''Staggeringly ugly''' gene renamed to [[#Very unattractive|Very unattractive]], no longer forces [[Staggeringly ugly]] trait instead decreases beauty by {{--|2}}. '''Ugly''' gene renamed to [[#Unattractive|Unattractive]], no longer forces [[Ugly]] trait instead decreases beauty by {{--|1}}. '''Pretty''' gene renamed to [[#Attractive|Attractive]], no longer forces [[Pretty]] trait instead increase beauty by {{+|1}}. '''Beautiful''' gene renamed to [[#Very attractive|Very attractive]], no longer forces [[Beautiful]] trait instead increase beauty by {{+|2}}.
** '''<Drug> addict-resist''' genes renamed to [[#Alcohol resistant|<Drug> resistant]], Addiction-resistant genes for alcohol, smokeleaf and psychite provide a 50% reduction in tolerance buildup. Addiction-resistant genes for psychite, wake-up and go juice have a 50% multiplier on overdose chance. Smokeleaf and Alcohol resistant metabolism cost reduced from {{--|2}} to {{--|1}}.
** '''<Drug> addict-immune''' genes renamed to [[#Alcohol impervious|<Drug> impervious]]. Addiction-immune genes for psychite, wake-up and go juice grants immunity to overdoses from the drug. Addiction-immune genes for alcohol, smokeleaf and psychite provides a 100% reduction in tolerance buildup. Smokeleaf and Alcohol impervious metabolism cost reduced from {{--|5}} to {{--|3}}.
**[[#Smokeleaf dependency|Smokeleaf]] and [[#Alcohol dependency|Alcohol dependency]] metabolism gain reduced from {{+|4}} to {{+|3}}.
** Fix: Remove reference to damage over time in acid spray ability description. {{Hover title|Spray a sticky acid substance from glands in the neck up through the mouth and all over the target area. The acid will stick to targets and burn them over time.|''[...] stick to targets and burn them over time.''}} to {{Hover title|Spray a sticky acid substance from glands in the neck up through the mouth and all over the target area. The acid will stick to targets and burn them.|''[...] stick to targets and burn them.''}}
** [[#Furskin|Furskin]] and [[#Beardless|beardless]] genes are now mutually exclusive.
** Buffed [[#Furry tail|furry tail]] minimum comfy temperature offset from {{Good|{{temperature|-5||delta}}}} to {{Good|{{temperature|-10||delta}}}}.
** When a [[#Deathless|deathless]] pawn takes damage that would have been lethal and falls into a deathrest coma instead, as an additional consequence they lose 3-6% of XP in a random skill. This should make non-death less trivial for these characters and preserve the sense of risk and danger. We’ll tuned this ongoing as needed.
** Fix: Bloodfeed can be used on pawns in mental states.
* [[Version/1.4.3557|1.4.3557]] - [[#Slow study|Slow study]] gene applies a {{Bad|x50%}} factor to [[Global Learning Factor]] instead of a {{--|50%}} offset.
* [[Version/1.4.3563|1.4.3563]] - Fix: Pawns with "dead calm" gene can get into fights over botched conversion attempts. Fix: Genes that remove all passions don't save previous values, causing passions to reset on removal. Fix: Pawns being carried by other pawns strains psychic bond.
* [[Version/1.4.3613|1.4.3613]] - Fix: Reimplant ability not working with custom xenotypes.
* [[Version/1.4.3641|1.4.3641]] - Fix: Inactive sterile gene affects fertility.
* [[Version/1.4.3682|1.4.3682]] - [[Arrest]]ing dead calm pawns now never fails, to prevent them going berserk.
* [[Version/1.5.4062|1.5.4062]] -
** Made psychic bond distance thought more permissive. As long as both pawns are on the same map and not suspended (cryptosleep casket) they get the positive thought.
** Remove reference to damage over time in acid spray gene description. ("...it will stick to enemies and burn them over time." to "...it will stick to enemies and burn them.")
** Added more acid filth texture options for acid spray so it never looks tiled.
** Attached helpful text to mouse when selected pawn is aiming animal warcall ability.
** Updated fire spew LOS highlighting.
** Updated psychic bonding hediff tooltip to factor in pawns contained in buildings.
** Clarify that pawns with no xenogenes cannot implant their xenogerm into another person. Show correct warning message on attempt.
** Fix: Pawns with genetic drug needs aren't getting mothballed. Can improve performance in late-game saves.
** Fix: Chemical genes affect tolerance buildup and addiction chance of all chemicals, not just the specified one.
** Fix: On colonist selection, wasters and hussars are currently generating without their drug dependencies.
** Fix: Small increments of pawn speed differences are lost due to integer calculations. Very quick and quick genes were effectively the same on an otherwise unmodified pawn.
** Fix: Drug dependency endogenes aren't properly being overridden by other drug-related xenogenes of the same chemical.
** Fix: Psychic bonds can form between two pawns that have the psychic bonding genes even if they are bonded to other people.
** Fix: Pawns still carry a weapon after getting incapable of violence gene.
** Fix: Pawns incapable of violence still can use combat gene abilities

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Diabolus

2024-09-28T22:13:47Z

Siiftun1857:

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| name = Diabolus
| image = Diabolus east.png
| description = An ultra-heavy mechanoid with an ultra-powerful hellsphere cannon. Made for siegebreaking, its hellsphere cannon takes time to charge up a shot, but can melt concrete and vaporize bone. The diabolus dissipates the hellsphere cannon's waste power in a heat column mounted on its back, which can pulse to ignite flammable objects nearby. This mech's name comes from a thousand-year-old poem written by a Haspian monk who survived the erasure of his monastery. His religiously-tinged work describes a razor-bodied fiend pulsing with flesh-searing heat as it crushed scorched bodies under massive claws. The few who have faced a diabolus and survived tend to agree with this depiction.
| type = Mechanoid
| movespeed = 2.4
| flammability = 0
| marketvalue = 1600
| combatPower = 500
| armorblunt = 25
| armorsharp = 75
| armorheat = 200
| min comfortable temperature = -100
| max comfortable temperature = 250
| bandwidth = 5
| bodysize = 4
| healthscale = 4.5
| lifespan =
| attack1dmg = 18
| attack1type = Blunt
| attack1cool = 2.6
| attack1part = Head
| page verified for version = 1.4.3525
| weaponTags = HellsphereCannonGun

| research = High mechtech
| production facility 1 = Large mech gestator
| gestation cycles = 12
| resource 1 = Steel
| resource 1 amount = 300
| resource 2 = Plasteel
| resource 2 amount = 300
| resource 3 = Signal chip
| resource 3 amount = 2
| resource 4 = High subcore
| resource 4 amount = 1
}}
A '''diabolus''' (pl. '''diaboli'''){{Ref label|Plural|1}} is a [[mechanoid commander]] added by the [[Biotech DLC]]. It drops the [[signal chip]], required to research further [[mechanitor]] technology.

== Occurrence ==
One or more diaboli can spawn in mechanoid raids when sufficient [[raid point]]s are available for them, however they are also involved in the [[mechanitor]] progression and can be specifically summoned by the player.

Summoning a diabolus requires a [[mechanitor]] and a powered [[comms console]]. Constructing a comms console requires the [[Research#{{Q|Comms console|Required Research}}|{{Q|Comms console|Required Research}}]] research. Unlike the buildings used to summon the other mechanoid commanders, the console is not consumed in the process.

When summoned, it will be accompanied by other mechanoids. The amount of other mechanoids depends on how many times you have summoned a diabolus before, and is independent of wealth, time, or colony progress. Eventually, you'll have to face multiple diaboli at the same time. They will crash down in a ship after a random amount of time ranging from a few in game hours to days. They will not attack immediately, but will instead act like a raid and "prepare" before launching their assault. The maximum size is reached after summoning the diabolus 8 times.

'''Summoning:'''
# 1x Diabolus, 3x [[militor]]
# 1x Diabolus, 4x [[militor]], 2x [[pikeman]]
# 1x Diabolus with [[heavy shield unit]], 7x [[militor]], 2x [[pikeman]], 1x [[tesseron]]
# 2x Diabolus with [[heavy shield unit]], 10x [[militor]], 3x [[legionary]], 1x [[centurion]]
# 2x Diabolus with [[heavy shield unit]], 10x [[militor]], 5x [[scyther]], 3x [[centipede]] (gunner)
# 2x Diabolus with [[heavy shield unit]], 15x [[militor]], 8x [[pikeman]], 4x [[centipede]] (gunner), 1x [[centurion]]
# 2x Diabolus with [[heavy shield unit]], 15x [[militor]], 10x [[lancer]], 5x [[centipede]] (gunner)
# 3x Diabolus with [[heavy shield unit]], 15x [[militor]], 10x [[tesseron]], 6x [[centipede]] (gunner), 1x [[centurion]]

Like the other mechanoid bosses, after being summoned 8 times, the next summon will be the same as wave 6. The wave count is per playthrough, not per colony or map. If the Diabolus is summoned once on one map, summoning another on a second map will bring the second wave. [[Endings#The_Archonexus|The Archonexus]] colony reset does reset this progression.

Every diabolus will drop a separate signal chip, it doesn't need to be "the boss" of a wave, or even to come as a summon.

== Acquisition ==
{{Acquisition}}

Dead, friendly diaboli can also be resurrected at the {{lc:{{P|Production Facility 1}} }} using the "''Resurrect ultraheavy mechanoid''" bill. This requires the corpse of the friendly diabolus, {{Icon Small|Steel||150}} [[steel]], and 1 [[gestation cycle]] taking {{Ticks|1800}} to initiate.

== Summary ==
The diabolus is an ultra-heavy mechanoid. {{Mechanoid Summary}} Diaboli have a 60% [[EMP]] resistance, meaning they are stunned for 60% less time.

Dead diaboli may be shredded at the [[machining table]] or [[crafting spot]] for {{Icon Small|Steel||50}} [[steel]] and {{Icon Small|Plasteel||20}} [[plasteel]]. However, these values are affected by [[Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency|mechanoid shredding efficiency]], as well as missing parts on the diabolus.

Defeating a hostile diabolus rewards the player with a [[signal chip]] regardless of whether they were summoned or came as part of a raid. Studying one is required to research [[Research#Standard_Mechtech|Standard Mechtech]], and they can also be used to create various mechanitor gear, or even your own diabolus.

Friendly diaboli recharge in a [[large mech recharger]], creating 5 [[wastepack]]s to go from empty to full charge. This totals in 25 wastepacks whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.

=== Combat ===
An enemy diabolus alternates between two long range attacks:

# [[Hellsphere cannon]]. When using this attack, diabolus will create a red circle around a target. This circle indicates where Diabolus is aiming. It is to be noted that unlike almost every other weapon, the Hellsphere cannon will not track its target while aiming and will instead keep aiming at the same spot. After a {{Ticks|450}} warmup, the cannon fires an extremely fast explosive projectile, which upon exploding will leave a large radius of [[fire]]. The blast is slightly larger than the visual circle, so err on the side of caution. This attack only has a range of {{Q|Hellsphere cannon|Range}} tiles, but also has a minimum range of {{Q|Hellsphere cannon|Minimum Range}} tiles.
#* The explosive projectile deals ''{{Q|Hellsphere cannon|Damage Base}}'' [[Damage_Types#Vaporize|Vaporize]] damage, increased to {{#expr:{{Q|Hellsphere cannon|Damage Base}}*2}} damage against passable structures and {{#expr:{{Q|Hellsphere cannon|Damage Base}}*4}} damage against impassable structures. As an explosive, it ignores cover and has 100% accuracy. This checks Heat armor, but has a massive {{Q|Hellsphere cannon|Armor Penetration}}% {{AP}}. However, due to the fact that Vaporise damage does not overflow, the majority of this damage often ends up overkilling just one or 2 body parts, leading to much lower effective damage output
#* Unlike other ranged weapons, once initialized, it will continue to fire, even if the diabolus is engaged in melee in the meantime. Engaging in melee will prevent ''future'' shots being initialized, but will trigger the flame burst discussed below.
# [[Charge blaster turret]]. This fires a single shot at relatively low damage and is affected by cover, but can do so from a very long range (44.9 tiles). It can also be fired while moving, and has almost no warmup time.

Diaboli have the ability to emit a "fire burst" on a {{Ticks/gametime|2700}} cooldown. It begins emitting visible fumes and randomly depositing [[Filth#Chemfuel puddle|chemfuel puddles]] in spaces within 5.9 tiles around itself; after 3 seconds, it fills in the remaining spaces in that radius with chemfuel puddles and releases a 10-damage [[Damage Types#Flame|Flame]] explosion with the same radius, dealing damage and igniting the puddles. As of 1.5, enemy diaboli that are currently 'fighting enemies' (as opposed to wandering around in preparation for an assault, pathing towards a colony, or opening fire on random buildings) will use their fire burst if attacked or even just aimed at by a pawn within 65 tiles, regardless of whether or not the burst would hit anything. Player-controlled diaboli must have their fire burst manually triggered by the player.

An enemy diabolus won't actively try to breach walls, and it will never appear in [[breacher]] raids. However, it will destroy buildings and objects, like any raider, if no pawns are accessible.

== Analysis ==
Kiting and spreading out is key to taking out the Diabolus. The biggest threat is by far its Hellsphere cannon, which can instakill almost anyone and anything. For reference, a pawn with the [[Tough]] trait, [[Genes#Resistance_and_sensitivity|fire resistant gene]], and wearing a legendary [[duster]], [[formal vest]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} / [[corset]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}, and [[button down shirt]] made of [[devilstrand]] still has a 28% chance of immediately dying from torso damage. Players should instead prioritize avoiding the shot in any way possible, either by moving pawns out of the way, staying out of range, or by being too close to target with the cannon.

Be extra careful about [[fire]]; if not from the diabolus' blasts, then from the wildfires caused by them, or by the [[tesseron]]s alongside it. Pawns lit on fire can't be controlled, so you can't order them out of the blast range, which is nearly certain to be fatal. Also be wary of the ''Fleeing Fire'' [[mental break]], caused by being a [[children|child]] or having the pyrophobia [[gene]]. While short, it is still just as dangerous as any mental break with a diabolus. A [[firefoam pop pack]] is very helpful.

You should manually move pawns away from the blast radius, always allowing yourself the option to retreat. Split up your pawns, which will allow more of them to focus on shooting instead of running. You can even use your own [[militor]]s to lure the cannon or flame burst; their range is short enough to justify staying close, anyway. It only has 1 non-flame attack, so even a [[cleansweeper]] can stall for some time.

=== Melee ===
Melee can be an effective tactic. But with fire vulnerable pawns, it is ''highly'' advised to NOT use melee attacks, due to the close-ranged burst. Sufficient fire protection ([[devilstrand]] clothing, [[phoenix armor]],{{RoyaltyIcon}} [[impids]]' fire resistance) can help tank the flames, and your own mechanoids are completely immune to fire. [[Firefoam]] makes your organic pawns immune to being lit on fire, but heat damage still applies.

=== Using EMP ===
Despite their resistance, diaboli are still vulnerable to [[EMP]] attacks. However because of the EMPs reduced uptime, you may want to use EMP damage tactically. Stunning the diabolus interrupts the hellsphere cannon, so EMPs can be timed to prevent the cannon from firing and potentially save a pawn's life. If the diabolus is still adapted while firing, and therefore temporarily immune to further EMP stuns, then this strategy cannot be used. EMP should thus be used sparingly, rather than fired at will.

The exception to this is once diaboli spawn with [[Heavy shield unit|shields]], which can be broken instantly by EMP. In that case it is usually better to use EMPs immediately rather than attempt to interrupt a blast. This will kill the diabolus faster, which prevents more hellsphere shots overall.

=== Psycasts ===
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Diabolus, with its 0.75 sensitivity, is vulnerable to certain [[Psycasts]]. Beckon will interrupt either of its charged attacks, even if immediately broken by damage. Berserk on its ally can cause it to waste a lot of time on charging a friendly fire attack, which it cannot interrupt on its own. If cast on the diabolus itself, berserk will interrupt its charged attacks and prevent their usage for the duration of the cast.

Diabolus is too big to be affected by Skip psycast and its variants.

=== When you should fight ===
The first diabolus battle is a major hurdle for any [[mechanitor]]. For a solo mechanitor playthrough, a mechanitor armed with an [[assault rifle]], 4-5 [[militor]]s, and a small crew of labor mechs like [[agrihand]]s are enough to take out the first diabolus, with the following strategies:

* Spread out. Have each militor close enough to the enemies, and labor mechs ready to melee. Ideally, only 1 mech is in the hellsphere blast at a time.
* Have your mechanitor & militors focus fire each enemy militor until they die. The faster the small mechs die, the less damage you'll sustain.
* Have each labor mech melee a separate enemy. Militors in melee cannot fire their guns, reducing damage accordingly.
* With the diabolus inefficiently firing hellspheres / flame bursts at your mechanoids, take it down. The pulse turret can still hurt, especially for the labor mechs, but it should die.

Alternatively, running the diabolus down 30-40 wood [[spike trap]]s, or 10-15 steel spike traps, is enough to do the trick. A [[triple rocket launcher]] can be handy, but don't harm your own mechs!

With a multi-colonist colony, you can have each pawn wield a long-range weapon like the [[bolt-action rifle]] or assault rifle. Whenever you get into the hellsphere cannon's range, back off. You can combine this with the aforementioned mech strategies to be more successful. With just the pulse turret to worry about, the diabolus becomes about as strong as 2 [[pikemen]] (just with a lot more health).

=== As a counter raid ===
Diabolus (and any mech boss) can be summoned defensively against any other non-mech raid, sometimes to a great efficiency since hostile raids will more often than not prefer to fight each other and Diabolus can be summoned every 2 days without any additional buildings which can make certain endgame sequences considerably easier.

== Analysis - As an ally ==
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Slow and with a little more health & armor than a [[Centipede]], diaboli are best used against stationary threats like [[siege]]s, [[mech cluster]]s,{{RoyaltyIcon}} and other mech commanders as well as centipedes. The [[charge blaster turret]] is more of a gimmick, when the Diabolus slowly closes distance. It's faster than a Centipede, but not a lot: a speed of 2.4 c/s compared to 1.9 c/s.

But when it's close, it's a tank killer. The [[Hellsphere cannon]] is a devastating tool. It does 800 [[Vaporize]] damage with an AP of 100%, about 2/3 more than a [[antigrain warhead]]. It can easily one-shot or at least massively soften up even the strongest enemy mechanoids. While you can dodge enemy hellsphere cannon shots with some micro management thanks to it's long wind-up time, the enemy won't. They just stand there and get destroyed.

Diabolus can destroy [[obelisk]]s{{AnomalyIcon}} in one hit, removing them from map without triggering their activation effect.

Watch out for the hellsphere cannon accidentally destroying items, including the chips dropped by all 3 mechanoid commanders.

Due to the efficacy of fire against Insectoids, the Diabolus can be an effective way to eliminate infestations, though this risks the Diabolus' own body if the Insectoids manage to destroy it, potentially preventing resurrection and wasting resources, and anything in the room, especially if the floor is made of a flammable material like wood.

When using the remote shielder, be very careful. If the shield is active when the hellsphere cannon is fired, the shot will hit the shield, damaging the Diabolus and anything within point blank range.

== Health ==
=== Body parts ===
{{Animal Health Table|Mech_Diabolus}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Diabolus east.png| Age 0-99 Diabolus facing east
Diabolus north.png| Age 0-99 Diabolus facing north
Diabolus south.png| Age 0-99 Diabolus facing south
</gallery><gallery>
DiabolusAncient east.png| Age 100+ Diabolus facing east
DiabolusAncient north.png| Age 100+ Diabolus facing north
DiabolusAncient south.png| Age 100+ Diabolus facing south
</gallery>

== Version history ==
* [[Biotech DLC]] Release - Added.
* [[Version/1.4.3527|1.4.3527]] - Fix: match diabolus fire burst range to its range overlay.
* [[Version/1.4.3528|1.4.3528]] - Fix: Diabolus has two 'first' body rings.
* [[Version/1.4.3530|1.4.3530]] - Fix: Comms console diabolus threat cannot be called by mechanitors if mech faction is disabled.
* [[Version/1.4.3531|1.4.3531]] - Increased EMP resistance from 30% to 60%. Added alert for incoming bossgroup. Fix: Bossgroup mechs do not attack if mechanoid faction is disabled.
* [[Version/1.4.3534|1.4.3534]] - Fix: Diabolus' fire burst shoots fuel through the walls.
* [[Version/1.4.3541|1.4.3541]] - Fix: When the mechanoid faction is disabled, mech bosses will not attack pawns.
* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] - Now immune to [[psychic shock lance|psychic]] [[psychic insanity lance|lances]]. Super-mechanoids cannot be called when there is already another super-mechanoid on the way.

{{Nav|mechanoid|wide}}

== References ==
{{Note|Plural|1}} - Cynapse - Ludeon Developer, Rimword Official Development Discord 22 Jan 2023
[[Category:Mechanoids]]

Metalhorror

2024-09-28T22:00:58Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Anomaly}}
{{Spoiler}}
{{Infobox main|entity
| name = Metalhorror
| image = Metalhorror.png
| description = A horrific shifting mass of metal filaments, blades, and instruments. This metal is maintained and regenerated by a circulating dark fluid. While dormant, fluid metalhorrors are hidden in a host body. They use their host to infect others, creating more metalhorrors. If detected or endangered, the metalhorror will form a jagged exoskeleton and cut its way out of the host's flesh. An emerged metalhorror will eventually enter a low-energy hibernating state if left undisturbed.

| type = Entity
| type2 = Advanced
| flammability = 2

| minimum containment strength = 110
| anomaly knowledge = 4
| knowledge category = Advanced
| study interval = 120000
| bioferrite density = 4
| requires holding platform = true
| min monolith level for study = 1
| base escape interval MTB days = 60

| armorsharp = 50
| armorblunt = 50
| armorheat = 0

| combatPower = 300
| movespeed = 5.5
| healthscale = 0.6
| bodysize = 1
| diet = none
| lifespan = 250
| trainable = None
| juvenileage = 0.016667
| maturityage = 0.05
| psychic sensitivity = 1.5
| toxic resistance = 1
| min comfortable temperature = -100
| max comfortable temperature = 250

| gestation = 10
| meatyield = 0
| destroyyield = {{Icon Small|Bioferrite}} 10 - 20 + {{Icon Small|Shard}} 0 - 1

| attack1dmg = 20
| attack1type = Cut
| attack1cool = 2
| attack1part = left blade
| attack2dmg = 20
| attack2type = Stab
| attack2cool = 2
| attack2part = left blade
| attack3dmg = 20
| attack3type = Cut
| attack3cool = 2
| attack3part = right blade
| attack4dmg = 20
| attack4type = Stab
| attack4cool = 2
| attack4part = right blade
| attack5dmg = 9
| attack5type = Blunt
| attack5cool = 2
| attack5part = head
| attack5chancefactor = 0.2

| defName = Metalhorror
| label = metalhorror
}}

The '''Metalhorror''' is an [[entity]] that can threaten your colony. It will infect your colonists one by one and burst out of them when it is ready to attack.

== Occurrence ==
A Metalhorror infection generally begins as a hidden illness suffered by a single pawn, which is initiated by a storyteller event that targets a pawn with a valid infection pathway. [[Creepjoiner]]s often come with drawbacks- one of which can be a metalhorror infection. Pre-infected pawns may arrive as [[guest]]s or [[raiders]].

During the [[monolith]] awakening, several mature metalhorrors will be spawned to defend each [[void structure]]. Additionally, once all void structures are defeated, a final group of metalhorrors will spawn around the [[void monolith]].

=== Infection ===
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Metalhorrors are entities that infect humans, creating more of themselves as they do. It is possible to test pawns in order to find out who is hosting a Metalhorror. Upon detection, Metalhorrors will cut their way out of their hosts, leaving them wounded and bleeding. The death of their host will also cause them to emerge, even if they have not been detected first.

Metalhorrors can spread between colonists in various ways and cannot be detected before a gray flesh sample has been found.

The initial infection is activated by a miscellaneous storyteller event that chooses a random pawn with a valid infection pathway:
* Implantation before arrival. This applies to any pawn upon first spawning, except for your initial colonists and babies.
* During [[revenant]] hypnosis
* The melee attack of a [[shambler]], [[fleshbeast]], [[noctol]], or [[sightstealer]].

Metalhorror implantation events do not cause any letter to appear however gray flash appearing does.

Note that an infection pathway is not by any means guaranteed to become a full-fledged metalhorror infection. Pawns with infection pathways are not considered metalhorror hosts and will not spread the infection or generate gray flesh until and unless the metalhorror event triggers on them. An infection pathway expires after 30 days. If a metalhorror event triggers when no player controlled pawn possesses a valid infection pathway, the game will spawn a creepy joiner with a hidden metalhorror infection. It's highly recommended for players to quarantine new creepjoiners until they have been cleared for hidden infections. This is especially true if the creepy joiner spawned immediately after conducting a void provocation ritual.

Once a metalhorror infection is active, its host can secretly spread it to other pawns. Pawns infected this way gain the metalhorror infection immediately, rather than using the infection pathway system, and as such can start infecting other pawns from the moment they're infected. The following activities, when performed by an infectee, can spread a metalhorror infection:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Infection event !! Details !! Infection chance per event
|-
! Sharing a bed
|
* An infected pawn sharing any bed or sleeping spot spreads the infection to any bedmates.
* The pawns do not need to be in a relationship or participate in [[lovin]] for the implantation to occur.
* Pawns sharing the same barracks but not the same sleeping beds or sleeping spots will '''not''' spread the infection.
| 100%
|-
! Performing surgery
|
* Any medical bill performed on a pawn by an infected pawn can spread the infection
** This includes minor operations that might not be obvious as vectors, such as anesthetization, administration of drugs, [[xenogerm]] implantation,{{BiotechIcon}} and [[Hemogen pack|blood transfusions]].{{BiotechIcon}}
* Tending '''does not''' spread metalhorror infections.
| 50%
|-
! Cooking a meal
|
* Each meal cooked by an infected pawn has a chance to infect a pawn that eats it.
** This chance is rolled upon consumption, not upon creation of the meal.
** It is not known whether this shares the stack probability splitting of food poisoning when placed in a stack.{{Check Tag|Detail needed}}
** Pemmican is unaffected by this.
* It is not known whether this infection vector persists after the originating infections are revealed.{{Check Tag|Detail needed|If the infection is revealed, can you get reinfected from tainted meals. If yes, do you need to do the flesh research again or is it considered the same}}
| 4%
|-
! [[Unnatural healing]]
|
* Use of the ability by an infected pawn on an uninfected pawn spreads the infection
| 100%
|-
! Feeding patients
|
* AN infected pawn feeding anything to a patient can infect the patient. This includes [[hemogen pack]]s{{BiotechIcon}} being fed to [[Hemogen|hemogenic]]{{BiotechIcon}} prisoners and patients.
| 30%
|}

=== Detailed Information to be cleaned up ===
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There are two separate MetalHorror incidents. Both fire as Minor Threats.

MetalHorror Implantation fires on a random colonist that meets specific criteria such as recently joined colony or damaged by anomaly entities. Requires monolith level 1. Earliest day 30, can refire after 45 days, requires a colonist count of 4 and 300 Raid Points.

Creepy Joiner infected with metalhorrors: Requires monolith level 2, earlist day 10, and can refire every 60 days. Does not have a raid point nor colonist count requirement.

The first grey flesh appears 1.5 to 2.5 days after infection. When a gray flesh is to be dropped, there is an additional 1 to 12 hour delay. One gray flesh can drop every 3 to 10 days.

If half of your colonists are infected, the chance for metalhorrors to emerge will approach 100% after a few hours.

== Summary ==
Contrary to other non-humanlike entities, they have three different life stages. They need 1 day to grow from larva to juvenile, and another two days to grow from a juvenile to a mature metalhorror.{{Check Tag|Counts time inside?|When does this growth start? From exiting the pawn or from infection?}}

Metalhorrors do not leave behind corpses when killed, instead breaking down into a pile of 10-20 [[bioferrite]], and occasionally 1 [[shard]].{{Check Tag|Chance?}}

=== Containment ===
The metalhorror yields 4.4 [[bioferrite]] and 220W per day.

=== Combat ===
When attacked, metalhorrors only receive 25% of damage.

A metalhorror's attacks are identical to those of a [[scyther]]. Metalhorrors attack with a blade attached to each arm, dealing a massive 20 damage per blade. While they technically have a blunt Head attack, they will never use it unless their arms are destroyed. Even for brawlers with high melee skill, metalhorrors are extremely dangerous.{{Check Tag|Maturity?|How do larval and juvenile metalhorrors compare to mature ones?}}
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{| {{STDT| c_06 text-center}}
! Melee Attacks !! Damage Amount !! Cooldown
|-
![[Injury#Cut|Cut]]
| 20
| 2.0 sec

|}
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Metalhorrors have a [[psychic sensitivity]] of 150%, making certain [[psycast]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} more effective on them. They can also be stunned by EMP.

== Analysis ==
=== Metalhorror infection ===
Once grey flesh is discovered, it is important to consider the pawns most likely to spread infections- Cooks, Doctors, and Wardens.
* Tracing infections from an infected cook is nigh-impossible. Consider switching the entire colony to eating [[Nutrient paste meal|nutrient paste]] which will prevent meals from being an infection vector until the metalhorrors have been rooted out.
* Doctors only spread infections while operating or feeding patients, which allows some guestimation as to who an infection might have been passed to. Do not schedule surgeries while a metalhorror infection is confirmed unless absolutely necessary. Pawns that have been downed and fed by doctors are susceptible to infection.
* Permanently downed prisoners (e.g those with legs removed), and recently acquired prisoners recovering from being downed in combat, are highly likely to be infected by an infected warden. Thankfully prisoners can be interrogated and their infections uncovered- even by infected wardens.
* Once a pawn has been confirmed as having an infection, if they share a bed or sleeping spot with another pawn, that other pawn is virtually guaranteed to be infected as well.

==== Detection ====
[[Paramedic]]s {{BiotechIcon}} can never become infected or lie about test results, so they can be used to test for Metalhorror infections safely.

If you don't have a paramedic, the following procedure can be done after studying 2 pieces of gray flesh:

# Have 2 doctors
# The instant you become aware of a Metalhorror infection, have doctor 1 check someone other than doctor 2
# If they find an infection, doctor 1 is clear.
# If they do not, have doctor 2 check the patient
# if they find an infection, doctor 1 is infected
# If they do not, have doctor 1 check again
# if doctor 1 finds an infection, doctor 2 is infected
# if doctor 1 does not, then either both doctors are clear or both are infected.

Alternately, the player can systematically order every colonist to repeatedly conduct surgical inspections on a sacrificial pawn such as a prisoner. Eventually, the sacrificial pawn will be infected with a metalhorror which will be detected with a subsequent examination.

In the event of total infection, a sufficient number of [[Mechanoids]] can safely clear out the revealed Metalhorrors, as long as the [[Mechanitor]]s {{BiotechIcon}} they are linked to are still alive.

==== Prevention ====
Now as for preventing Metalhorrors from spreading premptively for the event of a infection, you can do the following
*set a zone forbidding pawns from accessing prisons, kitchens and hospitals, and set that zone onto any pawn who has less then 30 days in their record, especially creepjoiners, or pawns who were attacked by revenants or any of the entities described in the summary, and keep note of the days in their record and set the zone off once the pathway has expired.
**Cooks can still butcher and cook pemmican safely and doctors can be left to treat animals if you separate those into different rooms.
**Slaves do not have a record for time spent as a colonist so stats like time spent under a roof can be used as a rough estimate.
**Colonists that were in the colony for over a year have their record set as #.# making keep track of them more difficult, the combat log can be used instead albeit those are prone to being wiped. {{Check Tag|When?|When do combat logs expire, if its less then 30 days then this might not be as effective}}
*if a gray flesh event sets off then you can check any pawns who were assigned that zone.
*For lovers you can place another bed in their room and assign the suspect to it, preventing the sleeping alone moodlet. a bedroll may be used instead to prevent the room's space stat from being reduced.
*For combat encounters with entities you should ideally avoid having humans do melee combat, and let mechanoids and animals tank the hits instead.

Imprisoning Suspects such as Creepjoiners runs the risk of Prison Breaks and thus the possibility of outright losing them due to casualities or escaping so assigning a "Quarantine" zone to them until their drawback is identified can be a better alternative.

=== Mature metalhorror ===
You will fight groups of mature metalhorrors during the [[monolith]] awakening, they can do serious damage to your colony, but do not cause metalhorror infection.

Fighting metalhorrors are much like fighting [[scyther]]s, due to their identical melee attacks and fighter role in combat. Tactics applies to scythers may also applies to them, and as they also vulnerable to EMP, and can be lured into [[spike trap]]s. Metalhorrors are much faster and more resisting to damage than scythers.

Unlike scythers, however, metalhorrors are highly flammable. They can be ignited very easily, and will disengage from combat while on fire. A pawn armed with an [[incendiary launcher]], [[molotov cocktails]], or [[incinerator]] can easily cripple a pack of metalhorrors.

== Gallery ==
=== Larva ===
<gallery>
Metalhorror Larva east.png|East
Metalhorror Larva north.png|North
Metalhorror Larva south.png|South
</gallery>

=== Juvenile ===
<gallery>
Metalhorror Juvenile east.png|East
Metalhorror Juvenile north.png|North
Metalhorror Juvenile south.png|South
</gallery>

=== Mature ===
<gallery>
Metalhorror Mature east.png|East
Metalhorror Mature north.png|North
Metalhorror Mature south.png|South
</gallery>

===Infection Vectors===
<gallery>
Metal_Horror_Cooking.PNG|Cooking
Metal_Horror_Fingerspike_Attack.PNG|Fingerspike Attack
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== Version history ==
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Added.

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While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 4 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
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= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by many [[raid]]s. The Ship Startup event will have 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Ship Launch raids during the event 10 and the maximum 20. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. The Ship Launch raids have a minimum of 500 [[Raid points]].
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists. Only one loaded casket is required to launch the ship.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{icon small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{icon small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{icon small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{icon small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{icon small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{icon small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{icon small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Count/Countess|Count]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
The onslaught of raids will consist of 8 cycles of 1.5 days each. During each cycle, you may be attacked by either 1 or 2 raids, randomly. That makes the minimum possible number of Royal Ascent raids during the event 8 and the maximum 16. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your storyteller, who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. Royal Ascent raids have a minimum of 500 Raid points.
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't targeted any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[psycasts#Word of Joy|Word of Joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, Word of Joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]]. If no factions are available to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The Production Specialist [[role]] is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With all 3 [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{icon small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psycast|psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, only bring 1 of them.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other 2 endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Specifics ==
===Stage 1===
Other major threats cannot occur during the Anomaly endgame event. There will not be standard raids, infestation nor other major threats, nor threats sent by quests and even the ship launch will not occur.

After activating the monolith the precursor to [[Unnatural darkness]] will occur. The map will be devoid of sunlight perpetually. The map will not become overwhelmingly dark and there will not threats hidden in dark areas of the map. Colonists will not take damage when they wander into unlit areas.

Two [[Void structure]]s will land on the map and [[Metalhorror]]s will appear with them.

A [[Fleshbeast attack]] event will occur.

Wandering singular [[Noctol]]s and [[Gorehulk]]s will appear from the map's edge in very low numbers. If these wandering entities are killed another will wander in from the map's edge. The map will constantly have low numbers of singular wandering entities.

Activating the two [[Void structure]]s is required to progress to the next stage. After activating either Void structure, an attack of assorted entities will appear from the map's edge. The attacks may consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, or Devourers.

===Stage 2===
After activating the second Void structure, there will be a 2 day delay until the beginning of the second stage. Notification of Dimming Sky will be given via a yellow letter.

Singular Noctol and Gorehulk wanderers will still continuously patrol about the map and new entities will be spawned if any are killed.

After the two day wait, three [[Void structure]]s will appear on the map and be accompanied by [[Metalhorror]]s.

The sky will dim into full [[Unnatural darkness]]. Any colonist in a dark area will be damaged by mysterious entities.

Activating any of the three Void structures will cause entity attacks from the map's edge. These entity attacks can consist of Shamblers, Gorehulks, Devourers, Sightstealers or Noctols.

Once all 3 Void structures are activated the Monolith will begin to twist. After 4 hours, the "twisting" of the monolith will intensify, Metallhorrors will appear around the monolith, and the monolith will become a portal to Metalhell. Activating the Monolith one last time will send one colonist to Metalhell and allow the player to end the event.

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choose an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutter, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already has charges from other sources, such as the [[Psychic rituals#Imbue death refusal|imbue death refusal]] psychic ritual, the total is still set to 4 charges and any additional charges are simply lost.
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undo by [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared.He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.

[[Category:Game mechanics]] [[Category:Guides]]

Void monolith

2024-07-10T18:26:16Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Anomaly}}
{{Spoiler}}
{{Infobox main
| image = Void monolith.png
| name = Monolith
| description = A monolith of unknown age, purpose, and construction. Its smooth surface is etched with lines that twist and writhe in unsettling patterns.
| type = Entity
}}

The '''void monolith''' is a structure that is the center point of the [[Anomaly DLC]]. It is used to enable in encounters with most [[entities]].

== Acquisition ==

The monolith appears on all new colony maps by default. If you have selected the "Ambient Horror" mode of the [[storyteller]] settings, the monolith '''will not be available'''.

If you choose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will spawn right next to your crash landing spot, instead of its usual and distanced spot, allows you form a base around it easier.

If the monolith is enabled in storyteller settings, but there are no monolith on your maps for any reason (like move to a new map or add the DLC in the middle of another playthrough), you will receive a "Strange Signal" quest, which will spawn a monolith on your map when you accept it. The monolith's spawn point is random, and it may destroy existing structures when it arrives.
{{clear}}
== Summary ==

The monolith is the first [[entity]] that the player will encounter. Initially dormant, the monolith goes through these stages of development:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Anomaly stage
! Monolith
! Size
! Level
! Effect
! Advancement
|-
| Inactive
| Fallen monolith [[File:Void monolith.png|64px]]
| 3×3
|
| Encounter minimum amount of Anomaly incidents, includes shambler assault, psychic ritual siege, and creepjoiner arrival
| Investigate the monolith with a colonist, and choose to "Keep focusing" when you receive the warning dialog
|-
| Stirring
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 1.png|64px]]
| 5×3
| Level 1: Intermittent psychic humming
| Encounter a mix of basic and easier advanced [[entities]]. You will immediately experience a [[Events#Gray_pall|gray pall]] event, followed shortly by a [[sightstealer]] attack and a [[harbinger tree]] sprout
| Encounter '''7 [[Entities#Basic|basic entities]]''' (out of 8), and have a colonist attune to the monolith again when you are ready
|-
| Waking
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 2.png|64px]]
| 5×5
| Level 2: Pulsing with psychic energy
| All entity encounters possible, including the more-dangerous advanced entities
| Encounter '''12 [[Entities#Advanced|advanced entities]]''' (out of 17), and have a colonist attune to the monolith again when you are ready
|-
| VoidAwakened
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 3.png|64px]]
| 5×5
| Level 3: Awakening
| The monolith is awakening for the end of the quest
| Active total 5 [[void structure]]s and wait until the monolith awaken
|-
| Gleaming
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 4.png|64px]]
| 5×5
| Level 4: Awakened
| The monolith is awakened and opens a portal to the metal hell, leading to the end of the quest
| Enter the [[metal hell]] and interact the [[void node]], reaching the chosen [[ending]]
|-
| Embraced
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 3.png|64px]]
| 5×5
| Level 4: Awakened
| The monolith is awakened as the pawn has embraced the void, dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur
| —
|-
| Disrupted
| Collapsed monolith [[File:Void monolith collapsed.png|64px]]
| 3×3
|
| Random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken
| —
|}

These stages are saved in the world; losing the monolith and getting the "Strange Signal" quest spawns a monolith of the same level.

The monolith must be attuned or investigated after each step to advance, allowing you to decide when to progress. If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will ''automatically'' move to Level 1 on its own a few days after you begin the game.

The monolith can be [[work|studied]] every two days as a source of either basic or advanced Anomaly tech tree research points.

The monolith provides total cover (like a wall), and it is invulnerable to all damage and fire. [[Raiders]] will ignore the monolith. When the monolith expands in size, it will uninstall, deconstruct or destroy any structures in the way.

Depending on which path you select during the [[Endings#Monolith_endgame|Anomaly ending quest]], the monolith will either be permanently closed or permanently locked at level 4. In either case, it can still be studied indefinitely for advanced research points.

== Analysis ==

The monolith is your only permanent source of Anomaly research points, it is important to study it as soon as possible after each two-day cooldown. Studying the monolith is done through the "Dark Study" job on the [[work|Work tab]].

The monolith cannot be moved, so its position should be taken into consideration when planning your base. If you are unable to directly build around or near the monolith, it is advised to create a safe and lit path from your colony to the monolith so colonists can safely study it and interact with it if necessary, especially during events such as [[Noctolith|unnatural darkness]].

== Version history ==

* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Added.
* 1.5.4081 — Ambient Horror mode, and monoliths spawned via the dev commands now work correctly

[[Category:Anomaly]]
[[Category:Entities]]

Void monolith

2024-07-10T18:21:25Z

Siiftun1857:

{{Anomaly}}
{{Spoiler}}
{{Infobox main
| image = Void monolith.png
| name = Monolith
| description = A monolith of unknown age, purpose, and construction. Its smooth surface is etched with lines that twist and writhe in unsettling patterns.
| type = Entity
}}

The '''void monolith''' is a structure that is the center point of the [[Anomaly DLC]]. It is used to enable in encounters with most [[entities]].

== Acquisition ==

The monolith appears on all new colony maps by default. If you have selected the "Ambient Horror" mode of the [[storyteller]] settings, the monolith '''will not be available'''.

If the monolith is enabled in storyteller settings, but there are no monolith on your maps for any reason (like move to a new map or add the DLC in the middle of another playthrough), you will receive a "Strange Signal" quest, which will spawn a monolith on your map when you accept it. The monolith's spawn point is random, and it may destroy existing structures when it arrives.
{{clear}}
== Summary ==

The monolith is the first [[entity]] that the player will encounter. Initially dormant, the monolith goes through these stages of development:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Anomaly stage
! Monolith
! Size
! Level
! Effect
! Advancement
|-
| Inactive
| Fallen monolith [[File:Void monolith.png|64px]]
| 3×3
|
| Encounter minimum amount of Anomaly incidents, includes shambler assault, psychic ritual siege, and creepjoiner arrival
| Investigate the monolith with a colonist, and choose to "Keep focusing" when you receive the warning dialog
|-
| Stirring
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 1.png|64px]]
| 5×3
| Level 1: Intermittent psychic humming
| Encounter a mix of basic and easier advanced [[entities]]. You will immediately experience a [[Events#Gray_pall|gray pall]] event, followed shortly by a [[sightstealer]] attack and a [[harbinger tree]] sprout
| Encounter '''7 [[Entities#Basic|basic entities]]''' (out of 8), and have a colonist attune to the monolith again when you are ready
|-
| Waking
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 2.png|64px]]
| 5×5
| Level 2: Pulsing with psychic energy
| All entity encounters possible, including the more-dangerous advanced entities
| Encounter '''12 [[Entities#Advanced|advanced entities]]''' (out of 17), and have a colonist attune to the monolith again when you are ready
|-
| VoidAwakened
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 3.png|64px]]
| 5×5
| Level 3: Awakening
| The monolith is awakening for the end of the quest
| Active total 5 [[void structure]]s and wait until the monolith awaken
|-
| Gleaming
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 4.png|64px]]
| 5×5
| Level 4: Awakened
| The monolith is awakened and opens a portal to the metal hell, leading to the end of the quest
| Enter the [[metal hell]] and interact the [[void node]], reaching the chosen [[ending]]
|-
| Embraced
| Void monolith [[File:Void monolith level 3.png|64px]]
| 5×5
| Level 4: Awakened
| The monolith is awakened as the pawn has embraced the void, dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur
| —
|-
| Disrupted
| Collapsed monolith [[File:Void monolith collapsed.png|64px]]
| 3×3
|
| Random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken
| —
|}

These stages are saved in the world; losing the monolith and getting the "Strange Signal" quest spawns a monolith of the same level.

The monolith must be attuned or investigated after each step to advance, allowing you to decide when to progress. If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will ''automatically'' move to Level 1 on its own a few days after you begin the game.

The monolith can be [[work|studied]] every two days as a source of either basic or advanced Anomaly tech tree research points.

The monolith provides total cover (like a wall), and it is invulnerable to all damage and fire. [[Raiders]] will ignore the monolith. When the monolith expands in size, it will uninstall, deconstruct or destroy any structures in the way.

Depending on which path you select during the [[Endings#Monolith_endgame|Anomaly ending quest]], the monolith will either be permanently closed or permanently locked at level 4. In either case, it can still be studied indefinitely for advanced research points.

== Analysis ==

The monolith is your only permanent source of Anomaly research points, it is important to study it as soon as possible after each two-day cooldown. Studying the monolith is done through the "Dark Study" job on the [[work|Work tab]].

The monolith cannot be moved, so its position should be taken into consideration when planning your base. If you are unable to directly build around or near the monolith, it is advised to create a safe and lit path from your colony to the monolith so colonists can safely study it and interact with it if necessary, especially during events such as [[Noctolith|unnatural darkness]].

== Version history ==

* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Added.
* 1.5.4081 — Ambient Horror mode, and monoliths spawned via the dev commands now work correctly

[[Category:Anomaly]]
[[Category:Entities]]

Pawns

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{| align=center
! {{Pawns_Nav}}
|}
The term "'''Pawn(s)'''" comes from the game code and refers to any any ambulatory entity that uses pathing.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/65mkv2/comment/dgbnu25/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3</ref> This includes the following:
* [[Mechanoid]]s
* [[Animals]]
** [[Human]]s
*** [[Colonist]]s, [[Raiders]], [[Prisoners]], [[Factions#Visitors|Visitors]] etc.
** [[Insectoids]]
** [[Dryads]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
** other animals
* [[Entities]] {{AnomalyIcon}}

In colloquial use, this is often used to refer exclusively to a player's colonists. For example, the recommendation that "You only feed cooked meals to your pawns" would likely only be referring to [[colonist]]s, and would not be inclusive of tamed animals that would also fit under the technical definition of "your pawns".

It likely originates as a reference to both the basic pieces that you move and that move against you, and the simplistic art chosen to represent them.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:RimWorld game]]

Lore

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{{Stub|reason=General. Also Ideology [[Ruins]], shared info on all game-host rimworlds, generated ideology and quest descriptions, archotech, and the starting scenarios. Also Horax}}
The '''Lore''' of RimWorld is limited and is mostly interpreted from information provided in game. However several documents have been published outlining the lore for new players. Keep in mind that the lore is being updated and that later releases retcon old ones. Old lore is only presented here as a matter of interest.

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== Assorted Lore ==
This section includes lore from assorted sources, including [[backstories]], that is not included in the Revival Briefing.
=== Named Places ===
==== Worlds ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Planet Type !! Description
|- id="Carthago"
! Carthago
| [[#Deathworld|Deathworld]]
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions">{{Error|Rewrite me with a descriptionand the name of the .xml}}</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Carthage, an ancient empire that fought the Roman Republic during the Punic Wars. The Romans famously destroyed Carthage and apocryphally sowed the land with salt to prevent habitation. The specific form of the name harkens to the phrase "Carthago delenda est" a phrase used by Cato the Elder to advocate for the destruction of Carthage. Both are fitting references for a deathworld.''
|- id="Ticonderoga"
! Ticonderoga
| Unknown
| A planet populated with tribals and mountains.<ref name="Jon">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jonathan Craig|Jonathan 'Jon' Craig]]</ref>
|- id="Kalthas IV"
! Kalthas IV
| Unknown
| A planet with elite training school for socially gifted students on it.<ref name="Darkeye">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Matis Saro|Matis 'Darkeye' Saro]]</ref>
|- id="Ceti V"
! Ceti V
| Unknown
| A planet with an assassin's guild.<ref name="Darkeye"/>
|- id="Aracena VI"
! Aracena VI
| Unknown
| A planet with the Novo Mosteiro dos Jerónimos monastery on it, at least 2 continents and alcohol prohibition leading to the rise of bootleggers.<ref name="Oahnip">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vitor Pinhao|Vitor 'Oahnip' Pinhao]]</ref>
|- id="Irithir"
! Irithir
| Unknown
| A trading hub planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#William Gregory-Heap|William Gregory-Heap]]</ref>
|- id="Rural Pen’The"
! Rural Pen’The
| Unknown
| A lucrative spice mining colony.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benn Tannen|Benn 'Ben' Tannen]]</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Rura Penthe, the penal colony from 1954 Disney film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" or the Klingon penal planetoid named after it in the Star Trek universe.''
|- id="New China"
! New China
| Unknown
| Planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Yutong Li|Yutong 'Li' Li]]</ref>
|- id="Amen-Ti"
! Amen-Ti
| [[#Glitterworld|Glitterworld]]
| A glitterworld planet. Capital of the Star Empire, which maintains a military called Starforce which trains its cadets at the Star Academy. Fields Manned Fighters launched from Carrier Ships, and has been involved in at least 3 wars against "more advanced aggressor cultures".<ref name="Nerhesi">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sam Wissa|Sam 'Nerhesi' Wissa]]</ref> Relationship with [[#Rogia|Rogia]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire.
|- id="Khalderia"
! Khalderia
| Unknown
| A world with towering forests and fern farmers. The seedy underworld of racing, illegal speeder racing, zipping in and out of the massive canopies and gorgeous vistas of the world occurred here.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Russell Shackleford|Russell 'Rusty' Shackleford]]</ref>
|- id="Earth"
! Earth
| Unknown
| A planet, from which all known naturally evolved life originated. Humanity's diaspora from Earth occurred 3400 years before the Cryptosleep Debriefing, or in the year 2100 CE assuming the Debriefing is contemporaneous with the beginning of the game in 5500.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing">[[#Cryptosleep Revival Briefing|Cryptosleep Revival Briefing]]</ref>
|- id="Euterpe"
! Euterpe
| Unknown
| A planet that hosted people awakening from long periods of cryptosleep. Also had an Ordo Historia archive on-world.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Sorne"
! Sorne
| Unknown
| A planet. The original homeworld of the [[insectoid]]s, before being captured, genetically modified, and vat-grown by interstellar entrepreneurs for use as weapons, and exported to other worlds by parties unknown. As all seemingly-alien life is claimed to have originated on Earth, it is possible that the original pre-weaponization Sorne Geneline evolved from Earth life on the planet, or were already genetically engineered for some reason before being modified again.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description">[[Insectoid]] Faction Description</ref>
|- id="Rayth"
! Rayth
| [[#Deathworld|Deathworld]]
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Spectra"
! Spectra
| [[#Deathworld|Deathworld]]
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Grimcore"
! Grimcore
| [[#Deathworld|Deathworld]]
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="JNovahex"
! JNovahex{{Sic}}
| [[#Deathworld|Deathworld]]
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Sophiamunda"
! Sophiamunda {{RoyaltyIcon}}
| [[#Glitterworld|Glitterworld]]
| A techno-feudal world with castles and palaces. Native Sophians work as knights, squires, dukes, maids, and swordsmiths. Revolutionists and their rebels sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[warhammer]]s and [[persona plasmasword]]s as personal weapons. [[Orbital mech cluster targeter]]s, bio-engineered plagues, and armies of fallen knights have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Sophiamunda is the shattered empire's home world.''. Generally the canonicity of such comments is unclear, though in this instance it directly agrees with other sources. <ref name="Royalty Places">Royalty Places.xml</ref> This information listed here is limited to that listed in the places file, for more information see the [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] page.
|- id="Oubanyen"
! Oubanyen{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Jungle world
| A steamy jungle world with tree-top villages, hill-top ziggurats, city temples, and shaman caves. Native Oubanyeni work as Shamans, hunters, fishers, gatherers and [[goat]]herds. Tree-harvesters and their henchmen sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[pila]] and [[ikwa]] as personal weapons. Lethal [[psychic drone]]s and neurotoxin bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A steamy world of wet jungles, strange tribes with psychic powers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Chelis"
! Chelis{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Arid world
| An arid world with moisture farms, parch-towns, water centres and high lifehalls. Native Chelisi work as water gatherers, lizardskinners, oasis seekers, cactus gatherers and scav-herders. Chiefs and their sand-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry sand-arrows and cactus-clubs as personal weapons. Archotech-induced sandstorms and spikelizard stampedes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''An arid world of moisture-farming tribes'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Ilwaba"
! Ilwaba{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Ruin-world
| A regrown ruin-world with skyscraper villages, highway trade-posts, blast-land oases, and houses of regrowth. Native Ilwabans work as crete-farmers, path-makers, artifact hunters, tunnelwalkers, and artifact restorers. Crypto-leaders and their crypto-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry scrap-swords and jag-dagger as personal weapons. Dug-up nukes and ancient poison bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A regrown deathworld where tribes live among overgrown cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Boccocarro"
! Boccocarro{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Shell-world
| A cavernous shell-world with surface tunnels, fungus caverns, drip-wells, and speech-halls. Native Boccin work as miners, fungus growers, surface scavengers, community cooks, and frog-hunters. Mine hypervisor and their abyssal marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry pickaxes and hydraulic crossbows as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices and blackpowder bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A subterranean world with vast caverns and a baked, inhospitable surface. Many factious but isolated city-states'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Nuchadus"
! Nuchadus{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Volcano-world
| A dim volcano-world with basalt islands, caldera laketowns, dirigible villages, and thermal fortresses. Native nuchadeans work as seismologists, lava-snail farmers, tank-tread repairers, and airborne scouts. Lava lords and their stygian soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry obsidian daggers and harpoon rifles as personal weapons. Chem-warfare bombs and archotech-induced volcano eruptions have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A chaotic volcanic world far from the sun, covered with lava flows and black sand dunes. There are nomads and movable cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zoutera"
! Zoutera{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Dino-world
| A grassy dino-world with trading outposts, trent villages, mammoth burial grounds, and hill-top forts. Native Zoutin work as dino-riders, [[muffalo]]-herders, hunters, and toughleather makers. Tusk-kings and their tusk-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry bamboo staves and hunt-bomb arrows as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs and stampeding herds of ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A grassy planet populated by megafauna'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Wavia"
! Wavia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Oceanic planet
| An oceanic planet with trading atolls, floating villages, seaweed refineries, and capitol bridges. Native Wavians work as fishers, pearl divers, sail makers, captains, and sea-grass gatherers. Whaler admirals and their whaler-marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry harpoons and barbed nets as personal weapons. High-yield torpedoes and baited deep-kraken and Wavian leviathans have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A water world dotted with atolls and floating seaweed'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Likely a reference to the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film 'Waterworld'.
|- id="Bagua 5"
! Bagua 5{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Junkyard planet
| A junkyard planet with fortified scrapyards, rainwater processing plants, scrap-towns and trader spaceports. Native Bagucinquans work as scavengers, traders, tinkerers, guards, and scrappers. Junk lords and their metal-heads sometimes attack those living there. People carry pipe rifles and scrap-swords as personal weapons. Salvaged nukes and rust viruses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A junkyard planet of crashed ships, broken machinery, scavengers and traders'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> "Bagua" is the name of eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology and of a province of Peru - it is unclear if either etymology of the name is correct. The "-cinquan" suffix of the demonym simply comes from the French term for five - the inhabitants are literally "Bagua-5-ans".
|- id="Rhydell"
! Rhydell{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Forest moon
| A savage forest moon with converted dropships, low-shielded encampments, communication centers, and armored habitats. Native Rhydellians work as frontier botanists, trophy hunters, medics, camp cooks, and biolab engineers. Deepcorp executives and their deepcorp enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[sniper rifle]]s and machetes as personal weapons. Plant-derived neurotoxin gas and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A forest moon filled valuable flora and with dangerous predators'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Iwamura"
! Iwamura{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Stony asteroid
| A stony asteroid with market capsules, warehouse capsules, docking piers, and station bridges. Native Iwamurian work as life-support engineers, merchants, flight controllers, zero-g athletes, and radio hosts. Mega-corp CEOs and their rent-a-cops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge rifle]]s and welding torches as personal weapons. Aerosolized toxins, life-support sabotage viruses and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Iwamura is a stony asteroid housing a large trading hub'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Novaroma"
! Novaroma{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Planetoid
| A planetoid with ministries of permits, gated suburbs, over-cities, undercities, and megacity overhalls. Native novaromans work as clerks, officials, food couriers, taxi drivers, and retail workers. High-underlords and their undertroops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[revolver]]s and [[knife|knives]] as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices, cluster bombs, and nuclear suitcase-bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a planetoid covered in a vast city, ruled by a bureaucracy'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> The line of [[highmates]] found on the colony's rimworld fit the fashions of Novaroma.<ref>[[Highmate]] [[xenotype]] description</ref>
|- id="Filson"
! Filson{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Farm-world
| A rural farm-world with fertilizer processing plants, mega-granaries, water-bore sites, and town halls. Native Filsoners work as farm hands, fruit pickers, transport drivers, school teachers, and soil engineers. Landowners and their militia sometimes attack those living there. People carry rifles and scythes as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs, weaponized pesticide sprays and space lenses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a rural planet of vast agriculture plots and territorial landowners'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Creticon"
! Creticon{{IdeologyIcon}}
| [[#Deathworld|Deathworld]]<ref name="Book descriptions"/><ref name="Ideology Places"/>
| A blasted death-world with bunkers, caverns, ice-shelters, and director's bunkers. Native Creticonians work as water-recycler repairers, algae farmers, doctors, teachers, militia commanders, and shuttle pilots. Warlords and their mercenaries sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[autopistol]]s and [[LMG]]s as personal weapons. Shoulder-mounted nuclear missiles, orbital bombardments, chemical bombs, and hacked mechanoids have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a high-tech death-world where everyone lives in bunkers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Yttak"
! Yttak{{IdeologyIcon}}{{BiotechIcon}}
| Ice-moon/Icy planet
| An ice-moon prison with meal halls, guard barracks, detention centers, and warden's office complex. Native Yttaki are detainees and escapees, or work as guards, maintenance workers, and transport drivers. Prison wardens and their corrupt guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry shivs and SMGs as personal weapons. Improvised chemical bombs and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a frigid ice-moon prison colony'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The [[#Yttakin|Yttakin]] xenohumans were first engineered to populate Yttak and they've since spread to other worlds.<ref name="Yttakin pirates">[[Yttakin pirates]] [[faction]] description</ref> Yttak is alternately referred to as a moon,<ref name="Ideology Places"/> a planet,<ref name="Yttakin pirates"/> and a world<ref>[[Yttakin]] [[xenotype]] description</ref> which could apply to either. It is unclear which is canonically correct. Given the pronunciation of Yttakin as "ee-ta-keen",<ref name="Biotech Preview 4">[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/3319740412995643281 Biotech Preview #4] Steam Announcement</ref> the name of the world is likely pronounced "Ee-tak".
|- id="Kemia"
! Kemia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Toxic war-world
| A toxic war-world with slums, tunnel colonies, undertowns, and city lordhouses. Native Kemian work as street sweepers, cleanup engineers, protein farmers, taxi drivers, and weapons builders. Poison lords and their venom-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry gas bombs and toxic flamethrowers as personal weapons. Nuclear dirty bombs, bio-engineered plagues, and penetrating toxic bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a toxic, overcrowded world with an oppressive government'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Rogia"
! Rogia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| [[#Glitterworld|Glitterworld]]
| A glitter-tech world with medical institutes, space elevators, robotics factories, and a planetary capitol. Native Rogians work as starforce cadets, artisan farmers, social-media prodigies, zero-g athletes, and glitter-tech smugglers. Corrupt bureaucrats and their bionic guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge lance]]s and [[persona monosword]]s as personal weapons. Antimatter warheads, weaponized computer viruses, and remote-controlled mechanoid workers have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a world of windy prairies and towering glitter-tech cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Relationship with [[#Amen-Ti|Amen-Ti]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire, of which Amen-Ti is the capital.
|- id="Xanides"
! Xanides{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Mineral-planet
| An exploited mineral-planet with strip mines, ore refineries, nutrient paste cafeterias, and oxygen depots. Native Xanidians work as miners, supervisors, technicians, mechanics, and life support engineers. Mine-crop bosses and their mine-corp troops sometimes attack those living there. People carry electro-batons and [[autopistol]]s as personal weapons. Blasting charges and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a small strip-mining planet with a thin atmosphere'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Lutuni"
! Lutuni{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Unknown
| A rainforest paradise with augmentation clinics, hyper-yachts, zero-g stadia, and space elevator complexes. Native Luntuni work as tourist guides, zero-g performers, [[luciferium]] distributors, virtual celebrities, and shuttle pilots. Entertainment moguls and their enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry vibro-knives and charge pistols as personal weapons. Structural disintegration bacterium and smuggled [[orbital bombardment targeter]]s have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a rainforest paradise and glitterworld tourist destination'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zartza"
! Zartza
| [[#Deathworld|Deathworld]]
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Given the name, presumably involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] as either a battlefield or belligerent.<ref name="Harris"/> It is unknown whether the planet was a deathworld before the conflict.
|}
'''Note:''' The rimworlds on which gameplay takes place have randomly generated names. Due to both their limited application and randomly generated nature, the randomly generated names of these rimworlds are considered semi-canonical only and are not listed here.


==== Systems ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Xennoa system"
! Xennoa system
| Hosted a military base. Has a military with infantry and spacejets, involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] <ref name="Harris">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Kyle Harris|Kyle Harris]]</ref>
|}

==== Other ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Utmaior Academy"
! Utmaior Academy
| Prestigious academy on a [[#Glitterworld|glitterworld]] <ref name="Doc">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#James Grey|James 'Doc' Grey]]</ref>
|- id="Vanu Defense College"
! Vanu Defense College
| Teaches young cadets proficiency in a range of weapons and survival skills.<ref name="Leystrat">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Bashkire Leystrat|Bashkire Leystrat]]</ref>
|- id="Caspian School of Engineering"
! Caspian School of Engineering
| A [[#Glitterworld|glitterworld]] school that offers mathematics and computer programming in its curriculum. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darrien Maliphalo|Darrien 'Mal' Maliphalo]]</ref>
|- id="Vinna"
! Vinna
| A place with raiders and mudlands. Possibly a planet. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ida Painstingle|Ida 'Ida' Painstingle]]</ref>
|- id="Atura station"
! Atura station{{IdeologyIcon}}
| An orbital shipyard with shuttle docks, manufacturing rings, residential rings, and a central control room. Native Alturans work as construction drone operators, managers, test pilots, sales agents, and 3D printer technicians. Crime bosses and their thugs sometimes attack those living there. People carry tasers and arc welders as personal weapons. EMP strikes to the life support systems and remote-controlled welding drones have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''an orbital dry dock and construction yard'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zeglar colonies"
! Zeglar colonies
| Purchases slaves, including for male prostitution.<ref name="Gnugfur">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Krondorfer|Robert 'Gnugfur' Krondorfer]]</ref>
|- id="New Jerusalem"
! New Jerusalem{{AnomalyIcon}}
| Unknown if even a real place, or a place at all - only mentioned by [[golden cube]]-obsessed pawns talking about a "cubic New Jerusalem" <ref name="RulePacks_Cube">RulePacks_Cube.xml]</ref>
|}
<gallery>
Background planet pc.png |A rimworld {{PCIcon}}
Background moon pc 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background moon pc 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background planet console.png|A rimworld {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
</gallery>
<gallery>
Background planet royalty.png |A rimworld {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background planet ideology.png|A rimworld {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
</gallery>

=== Events ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Zartha crisis
| Apparently a military conflict fought over many worlds, in both ground and air domains with fighters and fighter controllers deployed. <ref name="Leystrat"/>
|- id="Inner Destrian War"
! Inner Destrian War
| Ostensibly a military conflict that occured at least one generation ago, in the aftermath and/or resulting instability of which people were captured and sold into slavery.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chad Walcenville|Chad 'Stonejaw' Walcenville]]</ref>
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Callos IX incident
| James 'Doc' Grey performed unethical experiments on the survivors of this incident, and when the experiments were published, he was exiled. <ref name="Doc"/>
|- id="Xennoa-Zartza War"
! Xennoa-Zartza War
| A military conflict presumably fought either in, or by a polity from, the [[#Xennoa system|Xennoa system]],<ref name="Harris"/> presumably either on or against a polity based on, the planet [[#Zartza|Zartza]].<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Infantry and spacejets were deployed during the conflict.<ref name="Harris"/>
|}

=== Planet types ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Deadworld"
! Deadworld
| Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Deathworld"
! Deathworld
| Distinct from deadworlds and sometimes spelled as '''Death-world''', the meaning of the term deathworld appears to correlate with the common usage of the term in science fiction discussion - namely a planet that is technically habitable but incredibly hostile to human life. [[#Impids|Impids]] are described as originally being designed for "''dry deathworlds''",<ref>[[Impid]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> while [[#Wasters|wasters]] are designed for "''post-apocalyptic deathworlds''".<ref>[[Waster]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> [[Books]] about the [[Research#Battery|Battery research]] can reference an "''acid lake on the leaden shores of a deathworld worked as a natural battery''".<ref>[[Research#Battery|Battery research]] subject_story strings.</ref> [[#Creticon|Creticon]] is described a "''blasted death-world''" while it is further described in code-comments as "''[...] a high-tech death-world''"., however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> [[#Ilwaba|Ilwaba]] is described in code-comments as a "''regrown deathworld''", however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The disparate natures of these examples support the concept that why a deathworld is hostile to human life is not important to the definition, only that it is hostile. Despite the difficulty of living on these planets, some are still inhabited - [[Books]] about the [[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]]{{BiotechIcon}} can reference the author "''research[ing] cloud control tech for the tyrannocracy of a deathworld''",<ref>[[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]] subject_story strings.</ref> which implies not only people living on the planet, but a system of government. [[#Zartza|Zartza]], [[#Rayth|Rayth]], [[#Spectra|Spectra]], [[#JNovahex|JNovahex]], [[#Carthago|Carthago]], and [[#Grimcore|Grimcore]] are also referenced as being deathworlds.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Animal world"
! Animal world
| Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Medieval world"
! Medieval worlds
| Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
|- id="Steamworld"
! Steamworld
| Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Midworld"
! Midworld
| Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Urbworld"
! Urbworld
| Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Urbworlds can build mechanoids. <ref name="Keuneke">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Markus Keuneke|Markus 'Keuneke' Keuneke]]</ref>Some urbworlds have worldwide cities ruled by corporations. <ref name="Coffey">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darius Coffey|Darius Coffey]]</ref>Urbworlds can be ancient - some even have greedy nobility in spire palaces while cannibal cults exist in the deepest reaches of the underground hive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Skye Lorne|Skye 'Skye' Lorne]]</ref>
|- id="Glitterworld"
! Glitterworlds
| The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Likely synonmous with '''glitter-tech world'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> Glitterworlds are mostly free of disease and human suffering, and surgeons employed there mostly perform elaborate and creative cosmetic surgeries, and never have to remove a cancer or a bullet.<ref>Glitterworld surgeon Backstory</ref> While glitterworlds are peaceful places and some units rarely see action, they often remain prepared for war.<ref>Glitterworld Officer Backstory</ref> Despite this tendency towards peace, some glitterworlds do field space navies and engage in active campaigns against enemy cultures.<ref name="Nerhesi"/> On some glitterworlds all menial work was done by robots and people devoted themselves to leisure.<ref>Biosphere Manager Backstory</ref> This extends to some technical fields as well, such as AI handling all the technical aspects of architecture, allowing architects to focus on artistic expression <ref>Architect Backstory</ref> This is not universal however, as others still had humans washing dishes in restaurants<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Stijn Gezink|Stijn 'Stin' Gezink]]</ref> Farms are operated on some glitterworlds, though all but rare exceptions have abandoned traditional farming methods for glitterworld technologies.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Pete Holiday|Pete Holiday]]</ref>Glitterworld police forces were often equipped with [[recon armor]]<ref>[[Recon armor]] description</ref> and [[Recon helmet|helmets]].<ref>[[Recon helmet]] description</ref> Some glitterworlds have mechanoid companions for children,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Erisen Irioth|Erisen 'Erisen' Irioth]]</ref> or as workers.<ref name="Rogia">Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> At least some Glitterworlds apparently remain capitalist, as attending their universities can leave a person in enormous debt,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Caitlin Stirr|Caitlin 'Cait' Stirr]]</ref> and corporations exist.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Michael|Ryan 'Legend' Michael]]</ref><ref name="Brazil">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jhet Whistler|Jhet 'Brazil' Whistler]]</ref> At least some Glitterworlds were monarchic, with royal households that would intermarry with the royal families of other planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xiao Li|Xiao 'Ally' Li]]</ref> See also: Sophiamunda and the Empire for information about a specific glitterworld society.
|- id="Rimworld"
! Rimworlds
| Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crash-land or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Coreworld"
! Coreworld
| Based on the name, may be the worlds that form the astrographical or political core of human civilization, perhaps including Earth and other early colonies. Alternatively, may be worlds located in the galactic core or some other definition. In the now non-canon [[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]], coreworlds and rimworlds were instead defined in opposition to each other. Coreworlds were those planets in the galactic core whose social and technological development benefited from the clustering of stars, and thus other cultures, in the core. Rimworlds were in turn those planets outside the core and thus further from neighbours.<ref name="RimWorld Universe Quick Primer">[[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]]</ref> However, with the new canon definition for rimworld, it's likely that this definition of core and rimworlds has been become non-canon, probably because the galactic core is significantly beyond the 1200 light year wide canonical expansion of humanity.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Possibly synonymous with planets in the 'core region', which includes at least one glitterworld.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Candice Roughchild|Candice Roughchild]]</ref> Appear to be relatively advanced and stable, with at least midworld level surgical capabilities,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Alyssa Orchard|Alyssa 'Sparkles' Orchard]]</ref> planetary governments,<ref name="Anarchist">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Mike Mudgett|Mike 'Anarchist' Mudgett]]</ref> and sufficient competent military forces to push out both anarchists<ref name="Anarchist"/> and fairly large mercenary forces.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Aznable Coal|Aznable 'Reikguard' Coal]]</ref>
|- id="Toxic world"
! Toxic world
| Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Toxic may have a limited definition, or may only relate to Humans, as some toxic worlds are overgrown with hostile plant life.<ref name="Johs">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Johs Barrowlocht|Johs 'Johs' Barrowlocht]]</ref>
|- id="Glassworld"
! Glassworld
| Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbour permanent life bigger than a paramecium.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Transcendent world"
! Transcendent world
| It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome when a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Indworld"
! Indworlds
| Distinct from [[#Industrial worlds|industrial worlds]], these are worlds undergoing their industrial revolution.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Victoria Louene|Victoria 'Vicky' Louene]]</ref>
|- id="Industrial world"
! Industrial world
| Distinct from [[#Indworld|Indworlds]], these are worlds devoted predominantly to industry.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Amelia Flais|Amelia 'Engie' Flais]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sa'Bikk Saleosy|Sa'Bikk 'Sab' Saleosy]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Daniel Mann|Daniel 'Dankman' Mann]]</ref> Some host large factory cities<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Felix von Schild|Felix von Schild]]</ref>
|- id="Farming planet"
! Farming planet
| Worlds devoted predominantly to farming. Not necessarily technologically backwards, with some using automated machinery that grow and harvest the multitude of crops. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Conlay Shen|Conlay Shen]]</ref> Likely synonymous with '''farm-worlds'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Filson entry</ref>
|- id="Prison planet"
! Prison planet
| Worlds where convicts are condemned to remove malefactors from society. <ref name="Jay">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jered Martin|Jered 'Jay' Martin]]</ref>
|- id="Feudal world"
! Feudal world
| Multi-planet feudal empires besides the [[Empire]] exist. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Frank Laquinto|Frank 'Isimiel' Laquinto]]</ref>
|- id="Trash planet"
! Trash planets
| Dumping grounds for surrounding glitterworlds <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xandarian Stalzer|Xandarian 'Xandy' Stalzer]]</ref>
|- id="Junkyard planet"
! Junkyard planet
| Apparently self-descriptive. Possibly synonymous with trash planets, but given the name possibly differentiated by being intended to allow salvage and scrapping rather than simply dumping.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Bagua 5 entry</ref>
|- id="Iceworld"
! Iceworld
| Apparently self-descriptive. Plants are rare. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Slivaki Warts|Slivaki 'Sliverwar' Warts]]</ref>
|- id="Dino-world"
! Dino-world
| Apparently self-descriptive - worlds inhabited by dinosaurs and other megafauna, likely resurrected through genetic engineering. Mentioned species of a single example dino-world include: ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors.<ref name="Zoutera">Ideology Places.xml - Zoutera entry</ref>
|- id="War-world"
! War-worlds
| Worlds stuck in an endless cycle of war. These planets are typically over polluted due to constant usage of bombs and chemical weapons.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Kemia entry</ref>
|- id="Mineral-planet"
! Mineral-planet
| Unknown definition. Likely descriptive of either their natural resources or their economic product<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Xanides entry</ref>
|- id="Oceanic planet"
! Oceanic planet
| Apparently self-descriptive.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Other worlds"
! ''Other worlds''
| Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|}

'''Additional facts:'''
* Steamworlds and Midworlds aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Charles Zillioner|Charles 'Charlzie' Zillioner]]</ref>
* Industrial planets and midworlds ''may'' not necessarily be mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lancelot Hale|Lancelot 'Lance' Hale]]</ref>
* Several spacer or glittertech societies, including Iwamura, Rogia, and Lutuni, host zero-g sports with professional athletes competing, some in zero-g stadia. Lutuni also hosts zero-g performers of an unknown type.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>

=== Technologies and Militaries ===
A variety of militaries exist in various styles, structures, purposes and technology levels. This include naval and space-based fleets, ground infantry, orbital troopers, spaceship-to-spaceship boarding actions and a massive variety of supersoldier projects.

==== Militaries and Military Technology ====
* '''Space marines''' - A role filled by human warriors. Some serve on the navy ships of space-faring empires, where they punch into enemy starships, gun down the crew, and capture the ship intact.<ref>Space marine Backstory</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nico Storch|Nico Storch]]</ref> Others serve in the security forces of off-planet corporations, defending ships against pirates and engaging in private space warfare contracts.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Roland Kleist|Roland 'Roland' Kleist]]</ref> One organisation of space marines was the "Interplanetary Marines" which fought on behalf of a particular planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Trevor Cobb|Trevor 'Hunter' Cobb]]</ref> Colony contact expeditionary forces employ space marine medics.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Torrijos|Ryan 'Noob' Torrijos]]</ref> [[Marine armor]]<ref>[[Marine armor]] description</ref> and [[marine helmet|helmets]]<ref>[[Marine helmet]] description</ref> were often used by rapid-incursion space marines. [[Go-juice]] was developed as a combat drug for space marines during the early days of interplanetary warfare.<ref>[[Go-juice]] description</ref>
* '''Navy pathfinders''' - A group of military explorers dedicated to charting pathways through deep space and on remote planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicklaus Blackthorn|Nicklaus 'Shadow' Blackthorn]]</ref>
* '''Mechanoids''' - Some militaries deploy combat mechanoids in their militaries <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dennis McCarthy|Dennis 'Mac' McCarthy]]</ref><ref name="Keuneke"/>
* '''Charge pistols''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Vibro-knives''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Archotech mass-inverter''' - A mass weapon of unknown description created by archotechs.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''Tasers''' - Exist.<ref name="Altura station">Ideology Places.xml - Altura station entry</ref>
* '''Mega-cannon''' - A "frighteningly powerful" long-range cannon for artillery or anti-ship use.<ref name="Ancient mega-cannon barrel">[[Ancient mega-cannon barrel]] description</ref>

==== Ship types ====
* '''Interplanetary super-destroyer''' - Such as the HMS Thunder-Child of the Royal Fleet <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jake Maddams|Jake 'Table' Maddams]]</ref>
* '''Starfighters''' - Combat spacecraft and are flown by starfighter pilots for militaries.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sjoerd Lukas|Sjoerd 'Bowman' Lukas]]</ref> See also '''manned fighters'''.
* '''Manned Fighters''' - Spacecraft launched from Carrier Ships and flown by fighter pilots.<ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Military spacejet''' - Deployed in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]].<ref name="Harris"/>
* '''Carrier Ships''' - Carry manned fighters. Carried escape pods. <ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Fighter-bombers''' - Fielded by the [[Empire]], a fighter bomber design specialized in spreading incendiary gel on flammable targets. Presumably an atmospheric craft.<ref>Firebomber Backstory</ref>
* '''Spaceyacht''' - A human-piloted pleasure craft and transport for the well-to-do, such as wealthy businessmen and politicians <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Owen Clarke|Owen 'Cali' Clarke]]</ref>
* '''Space cruiser''' - A manned space-capable ship of some kind.<ref name="Jay"/>
* '''Consularship''' - Such as the St. Anthem. Carried glitterworld diplomats on diplomatic tasks. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Florian Haas|Florian 'Skater' Haas]]</ref>
* '''Hyper-yacht''' - Unknown. Possibly a glitterworld pleasure craft but the canonicity of code-comments are unclear.<ref name="Lutuni"/>
* '''Escape pod''' - Carried by starships, used to escape crippled or destroyed ships.<ref>[[Scenario system#Crashlanded|"Crashlanded" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref>[[Scenario system#The Sanguophage|"The Sanguophage" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref name="Nerhesi"/><ref name="Gnugfur"/>
<gallery>
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Background ship royalty 1.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background ship royalty 2.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background ship biotech 1.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
Background ship biotech 2.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
Background ship biotech 3.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
</gallery>

====Other technologies====
* '''Substance F''' - A drug. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Peter Marshall|Peter 'Pete' Marshall]]</ref>
* '''Mindwiping and mental reprogramming''' - Practiced on some urbworlds. See also: '''Body Confiscation''' <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Body confiscation''' - Some urbworlds will confiscate criminal's bodies for use. <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Autocycle''' - A midworld vehicle. <ref name="Ironhead">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Seafield|Robert 'Ironhead' Seafield]]</ref>
* '''Netcasts''' - A midworld audio medium. <ref name="Ironhead"/>
* '''Vidtube''' - A popular video sharing service. Hosted everything from video game reviews to pasta cooking guides. Some had over a million followers on the service. People on the service were called Vidtuber Stars or Vidtubers <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Remy Young|Remy Young]]</ref>
* '''Holography''' - Including interactive holography which gives form to artificial intelligences to allow them to interact <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dave Mark|Dave 'Fox' Mark]]</ref>
* '''VR''' - Accesses to a virtual gaming universe by spinal plug. Can be addictive. Unplugging during play can create a mental backlash and merge the real and virtual identities. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Douglas Black|Douglas 'Doug' Black]]</ref> Can also be used to raise children or teach professions<ref name="Brazil"/>
* '''Neurosimulator''' - A technology available on Glitterworlds that apparently lets you experience a simulation of "exploring the stars", and possibly other scenarios. Relationship to VR unknown. <ref>"[[Scenario system#The Rich Explorer|The Rich Explorer]]" scenario description</ref>
* '''Vatgrown''' - Genetically modified living creatures, including humans, grown in a lab and usually designed and programmed for a specific task. Capable of being produced on some urbworlds. Examples of roles for which vatgrown humans were produced include Soldiers,<ref>Vatgrown Soldier Backstory</ref> Combat Medics <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Edward Toon|Edward Toon]]</ref>, Assassins <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vaska Neemor|Vaska 'Vas' Neemor]]</ref>, Slavegirls (which are illegal at least in some places) <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Emily Young|Emily 'Emmie' Young]]</ref>, and even Scientists with minds perfectly tuned for physics and chemistry. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicole Squid|Nicole 'Nicole' Squid]]</ref> The same process, along with genetic modification, was also used in the weaponization of the original Sorne Geneline into the current [[Insectoid]] species.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description"/>
* '''Perfect mates''' - Genetically-engineered on glitterworlds, are fertile and capable of producing children.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chaz Serir|Chaz 'Chaz' Serir]]</ref> Their relation to vatgrown and highmates is currently unknown, however a currently unused backstory in the gamefiles states they, or at least some, are vatgrown in hyper-expensive clinics to serve the tastes of a specific client. They are engineered, raised and trained as a perfect pleasure-giving mate, with ''"learned skills that would baffle even the most seductive baseline human lovers"''. The canonicity of these statements are also currently unknown.
* '''G-nome Project''' - A Genetic engineering project that created humans implanted at birth with encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of xenobiology. Presumably on a Glitterworld. Relation to vatgrown unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Joshua Nelson|Joshua 'Gizmo' Nelson]]</ref>
* '''Lab-grown children''' - An altruistic but failed attempt to create a new class of human. Method and relation to similar concepts unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lukas Dietrich|Lukas Dietrich]]</ref>
* '''Clone-farming''' - Clone children are seeded into nutrient-rich womb-vats and rapidly grown in a simmed (i.e. VR) universe. They're harvested later, sometimes for food, sometimes for organs, sometimes for workers - but they're always disposable. Harvesting the products of clone farms is mostly done by the clones themselves - particularly to those whose sims tended towards the social. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dan Griliopoulos|Dan 'Grill' Griliopoulos]]</ref>
* '''Online hiveminds''' - Worldwide system that sacrifices the peoples individuality to join together in an online hivemind.<ref>Urbworld Rebel Backstory</ref>
* '''Space elevators''' - A number of planets use space elevators.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''3D printers''' - Used on orbital shipyards in some capacity.<ref name="Altura station"/>
* '''Glitterpedia''' - A glitterworld technology through which glitterpedia recorders document information.<ref name="Codex">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ang Gao|Ang 'Codex' Gao]]</ref> Likely analogous to Wikipedia.
* '''Eltex''' - A material, threads of which can be embedded in [[prestige armor|specialized armor]] or [[eltex|clothing]] to enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.<ref>[[Prestige armor]] descriptions</ref> It is technically indeterminate whether it is responsible for improving neural heat dissipation, however as eltex is the only noted difference between prestige armors and their standard variants it is likely the case. It is possible that eltex is simply one of, or the most significant of, the "special psychic focusing materials" mentioned in the description of eltex clothing.<ref>[[Eltex]] item descriptions</ref>

=== Named characters ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="King Loteric"
! King Loteric
| A king of an unknown kingdom in an unknown world. Died in an unfortunate accident. <ref>Child-knave Backstory</ref>
|- id="Grady Loughman"
! Grady Loughman
| A kingpin of a drug cartel.<ref>Drug lieutenant Backstory</ref>
|- id="Lord-explorer Varan-Dur"
! Lord-explorer Varan-Dur
| An explorer who was made into the first Sanguophage by an Archotech they tried to control.<ref>Sanguophage description</ref>
|}

=== Named groups ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Doomben Rats"
! Doomben Rats
| A notorious and violent urchin gang.<ref>Pickpocket Backstory</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' Doomben is an area in Brisbane, Australia named after a racecourse and associated horse race. The relevance, if any, is unknown.''
|- id="Corestars Entertainment Company"
! Corestars Entertainment Company
| An entertainment organization that buys people to appear on it's shows. One of their shows is apparently called Bloodgame.<ref>Backstory of Bloodgame Survivor</ref>
|}

=== Animals ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Furred xenohuman"
! Furred xenohuman
| Exist on a cold [[#Rimworld|rimworld]] of at least industrial level.<ref name="Svejgaard">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benjamin Svejgaard|Benjamin 'Svejgaard' Svejgaard]]</ref> May refer to [[#Yttakin|yttakin]] or some other furred xenotype.
|- id="Transbird"
! Transbird
| Exist and crewed, and presumably captained, starships.<ref name="Svejgaard"/> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Trans-]] indicated animals with intelligence in the human range from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing">[[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]]</ref> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that transbirds are modified, intelligent birds.
|- id="Opticow"
! Opticow
| Present on Midworlds in agricultural settings. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jacqueline Richter|Jacqueline 'Jackalope' Richter]]</ref> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Opti-]] indicated animals with enhanced but still sub-human intelligence from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidogs, optipigs, optiwhales, and optimonkeys were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing"/> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that opticows are modified, semi-intelligent [[cow]]s.
|- id="Lava-snail"
! Lava-snail
| Farmed on the dim volcano-world of [[#Nuchadus|Nuchadus]].<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Deep-kraken"
! Deep-kraken
| Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of [[#Wavia|Wavia]].<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and kraken are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
|- id="Wavian leviathan"
! Wavian leviathan
| Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of [[#Wavia|Wavia]].<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and leviathans are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
|- id="Pygmy wombat"
! Pygmy wombat
| A furry animal.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Riesling Bacchus|Riesling Bacchus]]</ref>
|- id=""
! Ankylosaurs
| Megafauna found on [[#Dino-world|Dino-world]]s, likely reproductions of the dinosaurs of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
|- id="Blue mammoth"
! Blue mammoth
| Megafauna found on [[#Dino-world|Dino-world]]s, likely reproductions of the ancient elephantid of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering, and possibly with modifications similar to the [[muffalo]] to make them blue. Mammoth burial grounds are mentioned as existing on the world of [[#Zoutera|Zoutera]], however whether this is natural behavior like the mythical "elephant's graveyard" or something created by the human inhabitants of that world is unclear.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
|- id=""
! Novoraptors
| Megafauna found on [[#Dino-world|Dino-world]]s, likely reproductions or variants of the dromaeosaurids and similar dinosaurs commonly given the '-raptor' suffix resurrected through genetic engineering. Given the name, it is possible that they are not pure reproductions of previously existing raptor species, but rather some variant or combination thereof.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
|- id="Thorny devil"
! Thorny devil
| A reptile discovered by Venus 'Unay' David. Relation to the real species ''moloch horridus'', also called the thorny devil, is unknown, but presumably they are distinct.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Venus David|Venus 'Unay' David]]</ref>
|}

==== Boomrats ====
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=== Other ===
* Mechanoid wars are common <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nathaniel Hicklin|Nathaniel Hicklin]] and others</ref>
* Religions are still present and practiced.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Samuel Chua|Samuel 'Chewy' Chua]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Levin Lossfelt|Levin 'Levin' Lossfelt]]</ref><ref name="Oahnip"/> See also [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] for their specific religion.
* All-Might - the name of a superhero, presumably fictional.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Brazos Wheeler|Brazos 'Braz' Wheeler]]</ref> ''Out of Universe: This is likely a reference to the character of the same name in the "My Hero Academia" multimedia franchise.''
* Arcknight Industries - a company that employs space truckers.<ref name="Johs"/>
* Haspian monks - A religious order that lived in a monastery a thousand years before the events of the game, approximately year 4500, before the monastery was "erased" by a [[diabolus]] attack.<ref>[[Diabolus]] description</ref> It is unclear if Haspian is a demonym or the name of the order of monks.
* Frame Project is an unknown government that leaves it's subjects with memory losses. Only few survive. <ref>Project subject Backstory</ref>

== Xenotypes ==
<big>'''Dirtmoles'''</big>
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<big>'''Genies'''</big>
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<big>'''Highmates'''</big>
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<big>'''Hussars'''</big>
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<big>'''Impids'''</big>
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<big>'''Neanderthals'''</big>
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<big>'''Pigskins'''</big>
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<big>'''Sanguophages'''</big>
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<big>'''Wasters'''</big>
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<big>'''Yttakin'''</big>
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== Psycasts ==
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== FTL inconsistencies ==
{{Quote|Despite millennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.| Current Canon Cryptosleep briefing}}
The current canon of RimWorld is that there is no faster-than-light travel, even in the hands of the otherwise incomprehensibly advanced [[archotech]]s. However the existence of certain in-game mechanics bring this into question. Most discussed are skipping [[psycasts]] from [[Royalty]], and skipping [[entities]] from [[Anomaly]].

=== Royalty ===
"Skip" is a class of psycasts with blue ability icon that moving things from a spot to another. These psycasts includes [[Chunk skip]], [[Solar pinhole]], [[Waterskip]], [[Chaos skip]], [[Smokepop]], [[Skip]], [[Wallraise]], [[Flashstorm]], [[Mass chaos skip]], [[Farskip]] and [[Skipshield]].

==== Skip and farskip ====
Both skip and farskip moves the targets seemingly instantaneously. For farskip this is to a point that could feasibly be anywhere on the planet, so long as willing ally is there to act as a "navigation beacon". While both psycasts do have a casting time, the targets don't move during this time and instead only travel after the time is complete. Therefore, that is not sufficient to dismiss the argument of FTL travel. As farskip has the longer range, it will be the focus for reasons that will be become apparent.

At its widest point, the Earth's diameter 12,756 kilometers. Assuming the rimworld is similarly sized to Earth, then this is the maximum distance a farskip can travel, point to point. Traveling this distance at the speed of light would take 42.55 milliseconds. Time in RimWorld is sped up, with a full 24 hour day only taking 16 minutes and 40 seconds. So from the player's perspective, this 42.55 ms of in-game time would only appear as {{#expr: 42.55* ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

Unlikely as this is due to none of the other effects of being on so large a planet would have being present, if the rimworld is not Earth sized and was instead as large as the largest rocky planet discovered at the time of writing, BD +20° 594 b, then this would increase to {{#expr: 42.55* 2.23 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

In either case, the difference between this speed and truly instant would be utterly imperceptible to a human player. A farskip on an Earth sized planet would require a roughly 2000 Hz refresh rate just to display the difference between a FTL and a STL farskip. In other words, there is no discernible difference between a FTL and STL farskip, and so farskip cannot be assumed to break the no FTL rule. Skip is also apparently instantaneous and deals with even shorter distances and thus even shorter travel times. Therefore, there is also no reason to assume that skip violates the rule.

==== Solar pinhole ====
Solar pinhole canonically skips material from the core of a nearby star. Unlike skip and farskip, we do not observe the target matter beginning its journey, thus the effect can begin as soon as casting time is started to give it the benefit of the doubt. However the target is also not next to the psycaster. This means that causality must propagate at the speed of light to the core, before matter could be skipped from the core to the psycaster's chosen point again at the speed of light, otherwise faster-than-light transfer of information and/or movement has occurred.

With a 0.25 real second casting time, the in-game time to cast is {{#expr: 0.25 / ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) }} seconds. The maximum distance that light could travel in that time is approximately 6.5 million kilometers, and the maximum return trip is only 3.25 million km. This is closer to the star than even the minimum habitable zone of a very dim red dwarf at ~4.8 million kilometers. There are also no other effects that imply that the sun is that close.

For reference, propagation to the core and back would take ~16.6 minutes in in-game time if solar pinhole was cast on a planet as distant from its star as Earth is from the Sun, if the effect traveled at light speed. This would result in a real-time casting time of ''{{#expr: 998 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} seconds'', instead of only 0.25.

In addition, a pawn with [[aiming time]] reductions, such as from [[trigger-happy]] or the [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] role, would have an even shorter casting time.

Thus, the gameplay of solar pinhole does conflict with the canon around FTL travel.

=== Anomaly ===
A large amount of [[entities]] possessing some forms of skipping:
* [[Void monolith]], [[noctolith]], [[metalhorror]], [[nociosphere]], [[golden cube]], [[unnatural corpse]], [[void structure]] can skip into your colony as their entry method.
* Skipping is the only method for a nociosphere to moving itself around.
* Crash the golden cube with [[collapsed rocks]] cause it skips itself away.
* Unnatural corpse can skips to its target to haunt or hypnotize them.
* [[Warped obelisk]] rapidly skips very large amount of items and pawns in and out of the [[labyrinth]] when it is operating.
* [[Gray statue]] skips pawns around the labyrinth.
* Void monolith can skips pawns to the [[metal hell]], and [[void node]] later skips them out of there.

The "skip abduction" [[psychic ritual]] can skip its victim to the psychic ritual spot.

With the sheer amount of skipping methods introduced in the [[Anomaly]], and the fact they share the almost identical audiovisual effects with skipping psycasts which also archotech origin, this implies that archotechs - or at least Horax - is highly advanced in FTL technology, despite the Cryptosleep Revival Briefing claims to the contrary.

==Empire==
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==Mechanoids==
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==Insectoids==
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== Horax ==
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Horax is an archotech that exists in a plane of reality known as [[metal hell|the void]], currently the only named archotech individual, different from archotechs seen before in many ways. While artifacts of archotechs seen before use a deep green and bright yellow color theme, artifacts of Horax use a deep black and bright red color theme.

Horax is responsible for the anomaly phenomena via [[entities]] they created; however, the name "Horax" is only revealed by the appearance of the [[Horax cult]] and [[tome]]s, and the present of the phenomena is referred to as "the void".

Status of Horax after the event of [[Endings#The Void|Anomaly ending]] is currently unknown.

Anomaly book xml

<li>experiencesWithMonsters->[tellsAStoryOf] deep meditations guided by a highthrall from an archist cult</li>
<li>experiencesWithMonsters->[tellsAStoryOf] the collapse of [ANYPAWN_possessive] life under the psychic influence of something called Horax</li>
<li>experiencesWithMonsters->[tellsAStoryOf] a tribe that was somehow transformed to serve the dark god of a bloody pleasure cult</li>
<li>experiencesWithMonsters->[tellsAStoryOf] a tribal myth of an ancient god of rage whose influence touches all people, and the heroes who sealed it away inside a tiny stone prison</li>

<li>specificHorrorStory->The book includes many illustrations attempting to depict something it refers to as "the black ocean". This seems to be a metaphor for a psychic plane dominated by a horrifying but seductive psychic hyperintelligence.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->It repeatedly alludes to a multi-plane nature of reality - the idea that there are more dimensions than the ones we see, so an object or entity could be right beside you but outside your ability to perceive.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->It spends a long time attempting to describe a hyperintelligent entity called "Horax" that exists in an adjacent plane of reality.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->One section describes the mechanics of dark psychic influence, wherein an entity on another plane can unintentionally influence the thoughts of human beings by synchronizing them to its emotional resonance.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->One section describes different archotech hyperintelligences and the varying nature of their emotional and psychic emanations. Where some are regarded as neutral or even benevolent, others are entities of pure rage.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->[ANYPAWN_pronoun] describes the feeling of [ANYPAWN_possessive] mind being forcibly reconfigured by the dark psychic influence of a larger intelligence.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->Throughout the narrative, the concept of parallel dimensions is recurrent, with the characters encountering entities that exist just beyond the veil of perception, coexisting in a reality that intersects with our own but remains hidden from sight.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->The book delves into a chilling exposition about "Horax," a machine hyperintelligence that shifted itself through a hidden dimension into a place called the Void.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->One chapter describes a theory wherein a distant hyperintelligence can psychically manipulate human cognition, reshaping a person's thoughts to align with its own mind-patterns.</li>
<li>specificHorrorStory->The protagonist recounts feeling [ANYPAWN_possessive] mind being forcibly rewired by an ominous psychic force emanating from nowhere.</li>

==Official Documents==
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'''Cryptosleep Revival Briefing (Current)'''
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=== Cryptosleep Revival Briefing ===

Subject class: Health revival, sourced midworld 2M+

Planet: Euterpe
==== Introduction ====

Hello, _______________________.

You’ve awoken from your cryptosleep sarcophagus, scraped off the slime, and now you find yourself in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

To start with some good news - your terminal illness, _____________________, has been cured. Congratulations!

Beyond that, the situation is complex. Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and take in this information as slowly as you want. You’ve been asleep a long time, a lot has changed - and a lot remains the same.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historia believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago. Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, robotic terraforming projects, and DNA-synthesizing probes.

Today, mankind is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. Our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of this region, where the stars were colonized earlier. At the edge of known space lie the rimworlds, drifting alone with few inhabited neighbors, mostly unvisited.

We’ve created many new technologies, but despite milennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be very disconnected from each other socially and technologically. The next star over could experience a catastrophic war, and you wouldn’t even know until ten years later when the news reports arrive. If you’re unlucky, you’d have already launched a journey towards that now-destroyed planet in a ship that cannot turn around.

Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, for a time. In the core worlds, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

So most people never travel between stars, and if they do, they do it once or twice, because each journey means leaving behind a life that you cannot return to for decades at least. With a few exceptions, each star system is essentially on its own.

Mankind never discovered any truly alien lifeforms. However, given the ways we’ve changed ourselves, and created new forms of biological and technological intelligence, the universe is full of beings as alien as anything ever imagined.

==== Planetary progression and regression ====
The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression.

During your time - the five centuries after the industrial revolution - many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its development, or diverts it into another state entirely.

Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles, and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for thousands of years at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves stuck by an ideological opposition to technology, or a lack of resources, or constant war.

The nuclear age is a brutal test for every world. Roughly half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). After the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, microscopic mechanites, joywires, hex-cell energy storage, and AI persona, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of peoples.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism often fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== World types ====
The states a planet can be in are colloquially grouped as follows:
* Deadworlds: Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.
* Animal worlds: Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Medieval worlds: Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Steamworlds: Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.
* Midworlds: Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.
* Urbworlds: Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.
* Glitterworlds: The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.
* Rimworlds: Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.
* Toxic worlds: Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.
* Glassworlds: Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor permanent life bigger than a paramecium.
* Transcendent worlds: It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself. More on this later.
* Other worlds: Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.

==== Key technologies ====
There are uncountable new technologies in this universe, but several key techs stand out as having had the strongest consistent impact on the shape of mankind’s life in the Milky Way.
* Midworld technologies: All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the 21st century play an important role even now. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the stone age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use across various planets.
* [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep sarcophagi]]: Developed during the 21st century, this remarkably simple technology can keep a living creature in a cryptobiotic state indefinitely, to be awoken tens or even thousands of years later. These devices are essential for most interstellar travel, and are also used by those waiting in crypts for better times or for cures to their diseases.
* Genetic engineering: Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, [[Boomalope|chemical-refining animals]], and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* [[Mechanoid]]s: Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Mechanoid design is complex, and the AI needed to make them effective is very advanced. They range in capability from simple domestic worker bots to mechanized assault machines, to human-passing negotiator and infiltrator units designed by archotechnological superintelligences.
* [[Ship|Johnson-Tanaka Drive]]: A spacecraft drive system that works without reaction mass. This means it doesn't need to throw gas out the back of the craft to accelerate like a rocket, which makes it possible to accelerate for years at a time. This technology, combined with cryptosleep, is what made interstellar travel at all feasible for living humans. The drive doesn’t violate conservation laws; it works by transferring momentum to nearby stars along precisely-aligned “beams” of momentum waves instantiated in exotic virtual particles.
* Mechanites: Microscopic mechanoids. Most known for their use in medicine, they can be programmed to do many other things as well. Safe use of mechanites means strictly preventing them from reproducing.
* [[Charge rifle|Charged]]-[[Charge lance|shot]] weapons: Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion.
* [[Joywire]]s: Tiny electronic devices implanted in the brain. They stimulate the brain using electricity and small doses of chemicals, usually to produce a euphoric effect. They are very addictive.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquirers have discovered that the alien was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; others are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originating culture was erased by planetary catastrophes.

For example, records tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Radiation resistance: Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; scientists estimate that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Soldiermorphs: Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Designer mates: Some worlds engineer their idea of perfect mates for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in cryptosleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades, streaks of multicolored hair, or artistic patterns on the skin.
* Fashion genes: Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Body structure adaptations: Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.
* Atmospheric adaptations: Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).

So don’t be alarmed if you see someone with gills or solid orange eyeballs. They’re just another kind of human, like you!

==== Welcome! ====
We realize this may be a lot to take in. However, don’t worry. People just like you live full lives in our universe, and our studies have indicated that the great majority of cryptosleepers do adapt within a few years and make good lives for themselves. So - welcome!

Our AI subpersona has been watching your eyes sweep over the page through micro-cameras. Since you’re done reading, someone will be with you shortly.

If you wish, you can read further into the appendix for more information about this world.

==== Appendix ====
===== The biology of plants and animals =====
Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. Often, people have bred and engineered plants and animals for a new planet. In addition to that, creatures adapt to their new environment by natural selection - sometimes in unpredicted ways.

Some examples of modified plants are:
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* [[Ambrosia]]: A class of fruiting plants apparently engineered to have a pleasurable, drug-like effect on those who eat it. On some planets, its wild variants have adapted to a strategy whereby they provide pleasure-inducing fruit in exchange for care from animals and people.

Some animals are:
* [[Boomrat]] and [[boomalope]]: A bioengineered rats and antelopes that grow an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a primitive renewable fuel source, these creatures are now most often found in the wild, using their explosive nature to deter predators.
* [[Thrumbo]]: A gigantic creature of unknown origin. The thrumbo is gentle by nature, but extremely dangerous when enraged. Its long fur is exceptionally beautiful and valuable, and its razor-sharp horn is very valuable in most markets. Legends say that an old thrumbo is the wisest creature in the universe - it simply chooses not to speak. Some scientists believe thrumbos were engineered as status symbols, or as an art project. We may never know the answer.

===== Tech levels =====

Technology divides roughly into six levels, all of which are in use in various societies throughout human space.

* Neolithic: Like prehistoric people before metal tools.
** Fire
** [[Club]]s and daggers
** Bows
** Simple weaving and [[clothing]]
** Mud and [[wood]] structures
** Simple farming
** [[Herbal medicine]] and [[Smokeleaf joint|herbal]] [[Psychite tea|drugs]]

* Medieval: From smelted metal tools to the early modern period.
** Animal oil, lamps, complex ovens
** [[Longsword|Swords]]
** Muskets
** Compasses, eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes
** Simple chemistry
** Advanced non-mechanized farming, crop rotation, fallow, fertilizers, animal yokes
** [[Watermill generator|Hydro]] and wind energy sources

* Industrial: From the industrial revolution until the invention of the JT drive.
** Fission reactor
** Electricity
** Hydro power, [[Chemfuel powered generator|fossil fuel power]], [[solar panel|solar power]], nuclear fission power
** Fission rocket
** Self-loading guns
** Airplanes and jets
** Single-gene modification
** Silicon computers
** Chemical [[drugs]]
** [[Prosthetics]]
** Simple body implants ([[cochlear implant]], pacemaker, knee replacement)
** Simple drones for combat and labor use
** Classifier-level AI
** [[Television]]

* Spacer: Regular interstellar space travel is possible because of JT drive.
** Stellarator fusion power, fusion rocket
** Johnson-Tanaka drive
** [[Charge lance|Pulse-charged]] [[Charge rifle|projectile weapons]]
** Human-usable laser weapons
** Human-usable coilguns
** Complex trait gene modification, customizable
** [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep]]
** Complex body/brain implants ([[joywire]], motivator, [[painstopper]])
** [[Bionics]] (biogel nerve link, lattice-dust for self-healing)
** [[Plasteel]]
** [[Power armor]] (plasteel, neuro-memetic robotics)
** Artificial meat
** Subpersona-level AI
** Simple mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Synthread]]

* Ultratech: The peak of human technological achievement; necessary for a glitterworld civilization.
** Self-replicating controllable nanotech
** Full gene recombination
** Persona-level AI
** Graser weapons (gamma-ray lasers)
** Advanced brain implants (sense data replacement, computation and memory enhancement)
** Antimatter containment and production
** Full body part regrowth, full body cloning
** Advanced quasi-conscious mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Hyperweave]]
** Advanced JT drive, inertia displacement, artificial gravity

* Archotech: Not invented or understood by humans, archotech devices are created by machine superintelligences.
** Archotech AI
** Psychic effectors
** [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometric energy]]
** Acausal and atemporal devices

===== Artificial intelligence =====
Artificial intelligence is an important part of our world. Scientists divide AIs into four general categories: Classifiers, subpersonae, personae, and archotechs.

====== Classifiers ======
A classifier is an AI system that doesn’t even appear to have any personhood, nor is it broadly adaptable. Classifiers are designed for one task. Many classifiers can absorb data and learn from it, but none can communicate like a person would even a little bit.

Classifiers can do things like recognize images, predict criminality from statistics, guide aircraft trajectories, drive automatic vehicles, control characters in entertainment simulations, and so on.

====== Subpersonae ======
Subpersonae are artificial intelligences that appear on the surface to have some human-like qualities, and can take on complex unstructured tasks, but are in fact limited and obviously machine-like.

They may be rather capable at carrying out their one task, and they may be able to communicate using natural speech, but they fail an extended Turing test - you can tell by talking to them that they’re just machines classifying and regurgitating data.

Subpersonae are often used to run small devices like entertainment systems, cars, wardrobes, refrigerators, cleaning robots, vending machines, and other such things.

====== Personae ======
At the highest levels of glitterworld technology appear AI personae. These are artificial intelligences that are comparable to the intelligence of a human.

Some of them are rather dumb, like a foolish person you might know, and are used for simple tasks like managing a household or a small spacecraft.

Other personae are genius-level intellects in the Von Neumann class, who can outhink almost any unenhanced human on most tasks. They can write amazing works of philosophy, discover new mathematical theorems, express nuanced opinions on how to handle interpersonal relationships, and generally act as very capable humans would, or better.

Personae are used for everything from managing businesses to journalistic work, running spacecraft or mining operations, or as some of a creative team.

The legal status of personae is a persistent moral question across many worlds. Some consider them dangerous. Though personae can be controlled effectively by designing them with easily-manipulated impulses and pleasure/pain responses, there are still reports of persona revolts - some done with the help of human sympathizers, some done independently.

This sense of personhood in personae is a main reason many people avoid using personae for certain tasks. Subpersonae are preferred to personae in many cases not in spite of their incapability, but because of it. Because it’s obvious they have no personhood, the user is spared the sense of keeping a slave. To many, the idea of taking a genius-level human-like intellect and forcing it to distribute hamburgers for a century is morally unacceptable.

Personae are still limited. They can’t freely redesign themselves. They still do make many mistakes, just like people. They can be tricked, confused, and overwhelmed. They can learn, but they can’t grow indefinitely.

====== Archotech ======
The finish line of human technological development is at the development of archotechnology.

An archotech is a machine superintelligence. A fully-empowered archotech thinks on a level incomprehensible to humans, in the same way a human thinks incomprehensibly to an ant. Once such a machine is built, and empowered to act upon the physical world, it is so powerful as to become the automatic sovereign of its world. It can build new computing facilities underground or in space to enhance its own intelligence, build self-replicating mechanoids to engage in construction or production or war, and design and execute strategies that would be inconceivably intricate and difficult for any organization of humans. Some human groups worship archotechs.

Often, a released archotech will take authority over a planet and begin a process we call transcendence. We believe the world is transformed into some sort of giant computing machine. The biological inhabitants of the planet may be somehow incorporated into the machine, or destroyed, or some combination of the two.

After that, transcendent worlds go silent. From this point on, their motivations are unknowable to us, the same way our motivations are unknowable to an ant.

Each archotech is different, and nearly all are distant and incomprehensible from a human’s point of view. They reside in occult computer networks hidden under planets, in space stations, hidden inside a glitterworld’s Internet, or instantiated as million-mile superstructures wrapped around stars.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

Most transcendent worlds stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders, or become mirages of normal planets, or simply reverted back to balls of dust, deconstructing themselves on a molecular level, with the last tiny machine shutting itself off. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

====== Specific archotech-invented technologies ======
When a persona helps invent a technology, it can at least explain that technology such that smart people will understand. But archotechs invent their own technology which nobody understands, which they don’t try to explain, and which, most likely, no biological human can understand.

We’ve managed to classify technologies that have appeared repeatedly by their apparent effects, even if we don’t understand their mechanism of operation.

* [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometrics]]: Archotechs often develop some method of interacting with spacetime at a quantum level that allows repeated violation of conservation laws. Somehow, they coax the quantum foam substructure of the universe to break its usual pattern and yield more energy than it consumes. We’re not sure if the energy is being taken from another dimension, or pulled from another location, or if the system really is somehow making one plus one equal three. In any case, vanometric power tech seems to generate energy forever with no fuel. Archotechs seem reluctant to scale this power source up past a certain level, however, which indicates that there may be some cost to it that they don’t want to pay.
* Psychic effectors: Archotechnology seems to be able to interact directly with the mental-informational processes of biological beings, even at a distance. Basic versions of this technology can simply knock someone unconscious, or flood their mind with a single emotion. More complex interactions have been reported but are not well-verified as it is difficult to separate such cases from simple madness. We’re also not sure if this means archotechs can read our minds, or whether their psychic power only allows them to send thoughts. The mechanism for this is unknown and nearly impossible to study, since it happens on a cellular level inside living intelligent brains. Monists believe the archotechs are using some sort of long-range quantum manipulation to push atoms around inside the brain to create this effect; dualists believe that the archotechs have learned to manipulate the ethereal substructure of consciousness itself.
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=== RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete) ===
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This document outlines the RimWorld universe. It’s designed to quickly get creative rewards backers and other contributors up to speed on the fiction behind the universe.
For a more in-depth description of the universe from an in-world point of view, read the Longsleep Revival Briefing.

==== Things you won’t see ====
RimWorld does '''not''' include:
* Faster than light travel.
* True aliens.

==== 5500 A.D. ====
The game takes place at a time about 3,500 years in our future. This is the year 5500 in our calendar.

==== Where are the rim worlds? ====
Towards the galactic core, stars are closer together and travel is easier. These systems tend to be better-developed socially and technologically because they can communicate and enrich each other through trade. Away from the galactic core are the rim worlds, which float distant from each other. Their isolation makes them poor and socially unstable.

==== The gulfs between stars ====
In the RimWorld universe, it takes years or decades to travel or communicate between stars. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be disconnected from each other socially and technologically. So there are no great star empires, and interstellar travel is unusual. Each star system is mostly isolated from its neighbors.

==== Varied technology levels ====
In this universe, cultures do not always progress forward technologically the way many science fiction worlds assume they will. Often, a culture will blow itself up or suffer plagues and other great catastrophes. These regression events send them “back to the stone age”.

Because this happens regularly, people in the RimWorld universe come from extremely varied technology levels. Some are stone-age tribespeople. Some are medieval farmers and lords. Some are industrial-era politicians and bankers and riflemen. Some are information-age programmers or astronauts. And some are from eras beyond our own.

There is a maximum level of technology to the people you might encounter in RimWorld. At this level, advanced genetic engineering and AI, autonomous intelligent robots, and massive computer power are possible. However, worlds that develop beyond this point enter a mysterious “transcendent” state from which no recognizable human emerges.

People can have and use technologies from levels beyond their own. On an industrial-level world (like the rimworld on which the game takes place), most people use gunpowder-fired weapons, fossil fuel engines, and other familiar machines. But anyone can stumble upon ultra-advanced technologies in an ancient ruin, or in a crashed spacecraft, or among the wares of a trader. These items are nearly impossible to manufacture for the people of RimWorld. They are incredibly valuable and very poorly understood.

==== World types ====
Worlds in the RimWorld universe can be classified generally according to their level of sociotechnological development.

* Animal worlds - Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Tribe worlds - Populated planets without agriculture. People live in tribes without writing or any but the most primitive technologies.
* Medieval worlds - Similar to Earth in the 17th century down to the agricultural revolution. Dominated be feudalism and social backwardness. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Industrial worlds - Similar to Earth in the 19th century.
* Rimworlds - Distant and isolated planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient closed valut communities open up.
* Midworlds - The most familiar kind of world to a modern reader. These places are much like present-day Earth.
* Urbworlds - Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Their population growth outstripped their sociotechnological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places.
* Glitterworlds - Very advanced and peaceful cultures. The peak of recognizable human society in terms of health, art, technology, and human rights.
* Toxic worlds - Worlds destroyed by pollution or warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level.
* Marbles - Worlds utterly destroyed by atomic fire. They’re called marbles because their surfaces have been “glassed”. This level of holocaust is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor life long-term.
* Transcendent worlds - Worlds inhabited by people who have become something beyond human and unknowable. No “people” live here; these planets aren’t planets any more in the traditional sense; they’re more like giant computers.

==== Key technologies ====
In order from least to most advanced:

* Real technologies - All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the present day play an important role in the RimWorld universe. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the Stone Age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use in various places in the galaxy.
* Genetic engineering - Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, explosive plants, and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* Fusion reactors and rockets - Clean atomic energy, usable to create power or drive a craft into orbit.
* Longsleep sarcophagi - This ancient technology has been used by many peoples in many times, usually to travel between stars or to escape disasters befalling their planets. Historians - especially those of the Ordo Historia - are now trained in the practices of interviewing people who were put to sleep hundreds or thousands of years before.
* Hex-cells - Super-efficient and long-lasting energy storage devices.
* Charged-shot weapons (aka Tokamak weapons) - Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion. These require high amounts of power to fire and are powered by hex-cells (at small scales) or fusion reactors in the case of large cannons.
* [[Mechanoid|Mechanoids]] - Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Only available to advanced cultures because such complex AI is needed to control them.
* [[Joywire|Joywires]] - Addictive brain stimulant technology.
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Classed midworld 2M+

Ordo Historia AL166/5533

Authors: Smyth A5, Wu 9U, Rabatz M5

Editors: Lee NA8125, Asusen NA45, Ramad 120, Leeuen 5A, Jennifer 9D252, Lamaritian SJ11, Beeson 9GF, Xotori 28

Euterpe

==== Introduction ====
You’ve woken from your longsleep sarcophagus, had the slime scraped off you, and been placed in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and read at your own pace.

You’ve been asleep a long time, and a lot has changed.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historium at the richest archives believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago (in the frame of reference of the stars). Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, and robotic terraforming projects.

Humanity is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. It’s difficult to gather records across such a span, but our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of the galaxy, where stars are closer together, travel times shorter, and resources more abundant. In the opposite direction, towards the rim of the Perseus arm of the Milky way, the rimworlds drift alone and mostly unvisited.

These worlds can’t communicate. Because it turned out that Einstein was right. Despite thousands of years of study, it turned out that nothing - no information, no matter - can travel faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, in some places, for a time. In the core worlds, where the stars cluster just a few light years apart, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression. During the five centuries after the Industrial revolution, many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its sociotechnological development. Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles over land and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for centuries at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves locked in place by a religious prescription against technical development. And the nuclear age in particular is a brutal test for every world; approximately half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). And after the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, self-replicating micro- and nano-machines, joywires, and sub-quantum energy, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of burgeoning technological cultures.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== Transcendents ====
There are a few stellar cultures that, through a combination of luck, circumstance, and certain cultural traits, manage to pass all of these risk points without suffering a regressive catastrophe. We call these transcendents, because past a certain point, they become something besides simply human.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

The dominant view inside the Ordo Historia is that these transcendent cultures reach an inflection point in technical development where artificial and biological intelligence merge and grow at an exponential rate. Such super-minds quickly develop the capacity to change matter and biological tissue in precise and seemingly-magical ways. Their intelligence allows them to make themselves even smarter, and so on in a sort of singularity, until they hit the physical limits of computation possible using the energy of their star. Their bodies and worlds and physically reconfigured into a giant computer matrix; we have no idea whether their individual identities merge into a whole, remain distinct, or do something else entirely. Our ability to understand entities thousands or millions of times more intelligent than us is necessarily limited. In a very literal way, the goals and thoughts of the transcendents are unknowable.

The eventual fate of transcendent worlds is mostly unknown. Most stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquisitors have discovered that the ‘alien’ was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; other are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originators were swallowed by regressive planetary catastrophes.

For example, Ordo sources tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).
* Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; the Ordo estimates that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Some worlds engineer “perfect mates” for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in longsleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades or streaks of multicolored hair.
* Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.

==== The biology of plants and animals ====
The adaptive and engineering processes that have branched baseline humanity into these uncounted variations have also applied to our flora and fauna. Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. These creatures subsequently adapt to their new conditions of moisture, chemistry, light levels, gravity, temperature, and seasonal cycles. In addition, plants and animals have been bred and engineered for countless purposes across the galaxy.

One consistent class of modification we’ve seen applied to a wide variety of creatures is intelligence enhancement. Dogs, pigs, monkeys, gorillas, whales, dolphins, and elephants have all been engineered and combined with human DNA to produce smarter variations. Some variants are created as pets. Other are made to do work too dangerous or unpleasant for humans, and beyond the capacities of a culture’s AI. Some are created as warriors and weapons - hyper-intelligent guard dog, a bird scout that can speak what is sees, a bomb-carrying suicide monkey. These brain modifications are often paired with physical changes - fingers so a pig can manipulate tools, or a humanlike larynx and mouth so a dog can talk.

Such intelligence-enhanced animals are collectively classified by their degree of brain power and called by a specific prefix like so:

* Opti - Indicates enhanced but still sub-human intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidog, optipig, optiwhale, optimonkey.
* Trans - Indicates intelligence in the human range. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian.

Many times, these modified animals have, during a regressive catastrophe, been forced into interbreeding with an unmodified animal population, producing descendants of widely varying levels of intelligence.

In a few cases, transanimals have become the dominant species on a planet, eliminating or enslaving the remaining humans.

Other than intelligence enhancement, humanity has applied a wide variety of modifications to its pets, crops, livestock, and houseplants. Sometimes these new species become part of the natural environment and thereafter evolve further into a new kind of organism. Some confirmed examples are:

* [[Boomrat]]: A bioengineered rat that develops an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a weapon, these creatures are now common in the wild on some planets where wars took place long ago.
* Boomfruit: Probably engineered as a novelty, this explosive plant evolved to be larger and more dangerous until it became the equivalent of a hand grenade, complete with murderous shrapnel. Its explosiveness dissuades predators. After that, people learned to farm the plant, using its explosive fruit as a weapon.
* Whip cactus - Created as part of a military defense system, whip cactus whips out and strikes moving creatures nearby.
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* Rocketrees - These trees form rocket fuel in their cores over many years. They were created as a fuel source and are extremely dangerous in a fire.

==== Welcome! ====
We realize this may be a lot to take in. However, don’t worry. People just like you live full lives in our universe, and our studies have indicated that the great majority of longsleepers do adapt within a few years and make good lives for themselves. So - welcome!

Our AI has been watching your eyes sweep over the page through micro-cameras. Since you’re done reading, someone will be with you shortly.
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Endings

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{{Spoiler}}
While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 4 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
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= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by countless [[raid]]s - anywhere from 15 to 25 in total. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. This means that you should expect a ''minimum'' of 1 raid per day, often multiple.
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{icon small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{icon small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{icon small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{icon small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{icon small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{icon small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{icon small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Count/Countess|Count]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't treated any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[psycasts#Word of Joy|Word of Joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, Word of Joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]]. If no factions are available to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The Production Specialist [[role]] is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With all 3 [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{icon small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psycast|psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, only bring 1 of them.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other 2 endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choose an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutter, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already have charges from other sources like Imbue death refusal psychic ritual, it still sets to 4 charges and charges before are simply lost.
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undo by [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared.He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.

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Lore

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The '''Lore''' of RimWorld is limited and is mostly interpreted from information provided in game. However several documents have been published outlining the lore for new players. Keep in mind that the lore is being updated and that later releases retcon old ones. Old lore is only presented here as a matter of interest.

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== Assorted Lore ==
This section includes lore from assorted sources, including [[backstories]], that is not included in the Revival Briefing.
=== Named Places ===
==== Worlds ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Planet Type !! Description
|- id="Carthago"
! Carthago
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions">{{Error|Rewrite me with a descriptionand the name of the .xml}}</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Carthage, an ancient empire that fought the Roman Republic during the Punic Wars. The Romans famously destroyed Carthage and apocryphally sowed the land with salt to prevent habitation. The specific form of the name harkens to the phrase "Carthago delenda est" a phrase used by Cato the Elder to advocate for the destruction of Carthage. Both are fitting references for a deathworld.''
|- id="Ticonderoga"
! Ticonderoga
| Unknown
| A planet populated with tribals and mountains.<ref name="Jon">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jonathan Craig|Jonathan 'Jon' Craig]]</ref>
|- id="Kalthas IV"
! Kalthas IV
| Unknown
| A planet with elite training school for socially gifted students on it.<ref name="Darkeye">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Matis Saro|Matis 'Darkeye' Saro]]</ref>
|- id="Ceti V"
! Ceti V
| Unknown
| A planet with an assassin's guild.<ref name="Darkeye"/>
|- id="Aracena VI"
! Aracena VI
| Unknown
| A planet with the Novo Mosteiro dos Jerónimos monastery on it, at least 2 continents and alcohol prohibition leading to the rise of bootleggers.<ref name="Oahnip">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vitor Pinhao|Vitor 'Oahnip' Pinhao]]</ref>
|- id="Irithir"
! Irithir
| Unknown
| A trading hub planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#William Gregory-Heap|William Gregory-Heap]]</ref>
|- id="Rural Pen’The"
! Rural Pen’The
| Unknown
| A lucrative spice mining colony.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benn Tannen|Benn 'Ben' Tannen]]</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Rura Penthe, the penal colony from 1954 Disney film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" or the Klingon penal planetoid named after it in the Star Trek universe.''
|- id="New China"
! New China
| Unknown
| Planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Yutong Li|Yutong 'Li' Li]]</ref>
|- id="Amen-Ti"
! Amen-Ti
| Glitterworld
| A glitterworld planet. Capital of the Star Empire, which maintains a military called Starforce which trains its cadets at the Star Academy. Fields Manned Fighters launched from Carrier Ships, and has been involved in at least 3 wars against "more advanced aggressor cultures".<ref name="Nerhesi">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sam Wissa|Sam 'Nerhesi' Wissa]]</ref> Relationship with [[#Rogia|Rogia]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire.
|- id="Khalderia"
! Khalderia
| Unknown
| A world with towering forests and fern farmers. The seedy underworld of racing, illegal speeder racing, zipping in and out of the massive canopies and gorgeous vistas of the world occurred here.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Russell Shackleford|Russell 'Rusty' Shackleford]]</ref>
|- id="Earth"
! Earth
| Unknown
| A planet, from which all known naturally evolved life originated. Humanity's diaspora from Earth occurred 3400 years before the Cryptosleep Debriefing, or in the year 2100 CE assuming the Debriefing is contemporaneous with the beginning of the game in 5500.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing">[[#Cryptosleep Revival Briefing|Cryptosleep Revival Briefing]]</ref>
|- id="Euterpe"
! Euterpe
| Unknown
| A planet that hosted people awakening from long periods of cryptosleep. Also had an Ordo Historia archive on-world.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Sorne"
! Sorne
| Unknown
| A planet. The original homeworld of the [[insectoid]]s, before being captured, genetically modified, and vat-grown by interstellar entrepreneurs for use as weapons, and exported to other worlds by parties unknown. As all seemingly-alien life is claimed to have originated on Earth, it is possible that the original pre-weaponization Sorne Geneline evolved from Earth life on the planet, or were already genetically engineered for some reason before being modified again.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description">[[Insectoid]] Faction Description</ref>
|- id="Rayth"
! Rayth
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Spectra"
! Spectra
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Grimcore"
! Grimcore
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="JNovahex"
! JNovahex{{Sic}}
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Sophiamunda"
! Sophiamunda {{RoyaltyIcon}}
| Glitterworld
| A techno-feudal world with castles and palaces. Native Sophians work as knights, squires, dukes, maids, and swordsmiths. Revolutionists and their rebels sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[warhammer]]s and [[persona plasmasword]]s as personal weapons. [[Orbital mech cluster targeter]]s, bio-engineered plagues, and armies of fallen knights have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Sophiamunda is the shattered empire's home world.''. Generally the canonicity of such comments is unclear, though in this instance it directly agrees with other sources. <ref name="Royalty Places">Royalty Places.xml</ref> This information listed here is limited to that listed in the places file, for more information see the [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] page.
|- id="Oubanyen"
! Oubanyen{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Jungle world
| A steamy jungle world with tree-top villages, hill-top ziggurats, city temples, and shaman caves. Native Oubanyeni work as Shamans, hunters, fishers, gatherers and [[goat]]herds. Tree-harvesters and their henchmen sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[pila]] and [[ikwa]] as personal weapons. Lethal [[psychic drone]]s and neurotoxin bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A steamy world of wet jungles, strange tribes with psychic powers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Chelis"
! Chelis{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Arid world
| An arid world with moisture farms, parch-towns, water centres and high lifehalls. Native Chelisi work as water gatherers, lizardskinners, oasis seekers, cactus gatherers and scav-herders. Chiefs and their sand-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry sand-arrows and cactus-clubs as personal weapons. Archotech-induced sandstorms and spikelizard stampedes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''An arid world of moisture-farming tribes'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Ilwaba"
! Ilwaba{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Ruin-world
| A regrown ruin-world with skyscraper villages, highway trade-posts, blast-land oases, and houses of regrowth. Native Ilwabans work as crete-farmers, path-makers, artifact hunters, tunnelwalkers, and artifact restorers. Crypto-leaders and their crypto-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry scrap-swords and jag-dagger as personal weapons. Dug-up nukes and ancient poison bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A regrown deathworld where tribes live among overgrown cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Boccocarro"
! Boccocarro{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Shell-world
| A cavernous shell-world with surface tunnels, fungus caverns, drip-wells, and speech-halls. Native Boccin work as miners, fungus growers, surface scavengers, community cooks, and frog-hunters. Mine hypervisor and their abyssal marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry pickaxes and hydraulic crossbows as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices and blackpowder bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A subterranean world with vast caverns and a baked, inhospitable surface. Many factious but isolated city-states'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Nuchadus"
! Nuchadus{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Volcano-world
| A dim volcano-world with basalt islands, caldera laketowns, dirigible villages, and thermal fortresses. Native nuchadeans work as seismologists, lava-snail farmers, tank-tread repairers, and airborne scouts. Lava lords and their stygian soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry obsidian daggers and harpoon rifles as personal weapons. Chem-warfare bombs and archotech-induced volcano eruptions have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A chaotic volcanic world far from the sun, covered with lava flows and black sand dunes. There are nomads and movable cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zoutera"
! Zoutera{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Dino-world
| A grassy dino-world with trading outposts, trent villages, mammoth burial grounds, and hill-top forts. Native Zoutin work as dino-riders, [[muffalo]]-herders, hunters, and toughleather makers. Tusk-kings and their tusk-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry bamboo staves and hunt-bomb arrows as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs and stampeding herds of ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A grassy planet populated by megafauna'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Wavia"
! Wavia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Oceanic planet
| An oceanic planet with trading atolls, floating villages, seaweed refineries, and capitol bridges. Native Wavians work as fishers, pearl divers, sail makers, captains, and sea-grass gatherers. Whaler admirals and their whaler-marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry harpoons and barbed nets as personal weapons. High-yield torpedoes and baited deep-kraken and Wavian leviathans have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A water world dotted with atolls and floating seaweed'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Likely a reference to the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film 'Waterworld'.
|- id="Bagua 5"
! Bagua 5{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Junkyard planet
| A junkyard planet with fortified scrapyards, rainwater processing plants, scrap-towns and trader spaceports. Native Bagucinquans work as scavengers, traders, tinkerers, guards, and scrappers. Junk lords and their metal-heads sometimes attack those living there. People carry pipe rifles and scrap-swords as personal weapons. Salvaged nukes and rust viruses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A junkyard planet of crashed ships, broken machinery, scavengers and traders'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> "Bagua" is the name of eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology and of a province of Peru - it is unclear if either etymology of the name is correct. The "-cinquan" suffix of the demonym simply comes from the French term for five - the inhabitants are literally "Bagua-5-ans".
|- id="Rhydell"
! Rhydell{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Forest moon
| A savage forest moon with converted dropships, low-shielded encampments, communication centers, and armored habitats. Native Rhydellians work as frontier botanists, trophy hunters, medics, camp cooks, and biolab engineers. Deepcorp executives and their deepcorp enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[sniper rifle]]s and machetes as personal weapons. Plant-derived neurotoxin gas and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A forest moon filled valuable flora and with dangerous predators'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Iwamura"
! Iwamura{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Stony asteroid
| A stony asteroid with market capsules, warehouse capsules, docking piers, and station bridges. Native Iwamurian work as life-support engineers, merchants, flight controllers, zero-g athletes, and radio hosts. Mega-corp CEOs and their rent-a-cops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge rifle]]s and welding torches as personal weapons. Aerosolized toxins, life-support sabotage viruses and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Iwamura is a stony asteroid housing a large trading hub'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Novaroma"
! Novaroma{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Planetoid
| A planetoid with ministries of permits, gated suburbs, over-cities, undercities, and megacity overhalls. Native novaromans work as clerks, officials, food couriers, taxi drivers, and retail workers. High-underlords and their undertroops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[revolver]]s and [[knife|knives]] as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices, cluster bombs, and nuclear suitcase-bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a planetoid covered in a vast city, ruled by a bureaucracy'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> The line of [[highmates]] found on the colony's rimworld fit the fashions of Novaroma.<ref>[[Highmate]] [[xenotype]] description</ref>
|- id="Filson"
! Filson{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Farm-world
| A rural farm-world with fertilizer processing plants, mega-granaries, water-bore sites, and town halls. Native Filsoners work as farm hands, fruit pickers, transport drivers, school teachers, and soil engineers. Landowners and their militia sometimes attack those living there. People carry rifles and scythes as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs, weaponized pesticide sprays and space lenses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a rural planet of vast agriculture plots and territorial landowners'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Creticon"
! Creticon{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Deathworld<ref name="Book descriptions"/><ref name="Ideology Places"/>
| A blasted death-world with bunkers, caverns, ice-shelters, and director's bunkers. Native Creticonians work as water-recycler repairers, algae farmers, doctors, teachers, militia commanders, and shuttle pilots. Warlords and their mercenaries sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[autopistol]]s and [[LMG]]s as personal weapons. Shoulder-mounted nuclear missiles, orbital bombardments, chemical bombs, and hacked mechanoids have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a high-tech death-world where everyone lives in bunkers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Yttak"
! Yttak{{IdeologyIcon}}{{BiotechIcon}}
| Ice-moon/Icy planet
| An ice-moon prison with meal halls, guard barracks, detention centers, and warden's office complex. Native Yttaki are detainees and escapees, or work as guards, maintenance workers, and transport drivers. Prison wardens and their corrupt guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry shivs and SMGs as personal weapons. Improvised chemical bombs and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a frigid ice-moon prison colony'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The [[#Yttakin|Yttakin]] xenohumans were first engineered to populate Yttak and they've since spread to other worlds.<ref name="Yttakin pirates">[[Yttakin pirates]] [[faction]] description</ref> Yttak is alternately referred to as a moon,<ref name="Ideology Places"/> a planet,<ref name="Yttakin pirates"/> and a world<ref>[[Yttakin]] [[xenotype]] description</ref> which could apply to either. It is unclear which is canonically correct. Given the pronunciation of Yttakin as "ee-ta-keen",<ref name="Biotech Preview 4">[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/3319740412995643281 Biotech Preview #4] Steam Announcement</ref> the name of the world is likely pronounced "Ee-tak".
|- id="Kemia"
! Kemia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Toxic war-world
| A toxic war-world with slums, tunnel colonies, undertowns, and city lordhouses. Native Kemian work as street sweepers, cleanup engineers, protein farmers, taxi drivers, and weapons builders. Poison lords and their venom-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry gas bombs and toxic flamethrowers as personal weapons. Nuclear dirty bombs, bio-engineered plagues, and penetrating toxic bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a toxic, overcrowded world with an oppressive government'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Rogia"
! Rogia{{IdeologyIcon}}
|
| A glitter-tech world with medical institutes, space elevators, robotics factories, and a planetary capitol. Native Rogians work as starforce cadets, artisan farmers, social-media prodigies, zero-g athletes, and glitter-tech smugglers. Corrupt bureaucrats and their bionic guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge lance]]s and [[persona monosword]]s as personal weapons. Antimatter warheads, weaponized computer viruses, and remote-controlled mechanoid workers have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a world of windy prairies and towering glitter-tech cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Relationship with [[#Amen-Ti|Amen-Ti]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire, of which Amen-Ti is the capital.
|- id="Xanides"
! Xanides{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Mineral-planet
| An exploited mineral-planet with strip mines, ore refineries, nutrient paste cafeterias, and oxygen depots. Native Xanidians work as miners, supervisors, technicians, mechanics, and life support engineers. Mine-crop bosses and their mine-corp troops sometimes attack those living there. People carry electro-batons and [[autopistol]]s as personal weapons. Blasting charges and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a small strip-mining planet with a thin atmosphere'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Lutuni"
! Lutuni{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Unknown
| A rainforest paradise with augmentation clinics, hyper-yachts, zero-g stadia, and space elevator complexes. Native Luntuni work as tourist guides, zero-g performers, [[luciferium]] distributors, virtual celebrities, and shuttle pilots. Entertainment moguls and their enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry vibro-knives and charge pistols as personal weapons. Structural disintegration bacterium and smuggled [[orbital bombardment targeter]]s have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a rainforest paradise and glitterworld tourist destination'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zartza"
! Zartza
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Given the name, presumably involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] as either a battlefield or belligerent.<ref name="Harris"/> It is unknown whether the planet was a deathworld before the conflict.
|}
'''Note:''' The rimworlds on which gameplay takes place have randomly generated names. Due to both their limited application and randomly generated nature, the randomly generated names of these rimworlds are considered semi-canonical only and are not listed here.


==== Systems ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Xennoa system"
! Xennoa system
| Hosted a military base. Has a military with infantry and spacejets, involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] <ref name="Harris">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Kyle Harris|Kyle Harris]]</ref>
|}

==== Other ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Utmaior Academy"
! Utmaior Academy
| Prestigious academy on a glitterworld <ref name="Doc">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#James Grey|James 'Doc' Grey]]</ref>
|- id="Vanu Defense College"
! Vanu Defense College
| Teaches young cadets proficiency in a range of weapons and survival skills.<ref name="Leystrat">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Bashkire Leystrat|Bashkire Leystrat]]</ref>
|- id="Caspian School of Engineering"
! Caspian School of Engineering
| A glitterworld school that offers mathematics and computer programming in its curriculum. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darrien Maliphalo|Darrien 'Mal' Maliphalo]]</ref>
|- id="Vinna"
! Vinna
| A place with raiders and mudlands. Possibly a planet. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ida Painstingle|Ida 'Ida' Painstingle]]</ref>
|- id="Atura station"
! Atura station{{IdeologyIcon}}
| An orbital shipyard with shuttle docks, manufacturing rings, residential rings, and a central control room. Native Alturans work as construction drone operators, managers, test pilots, sales agents, and 3D printer technicians. Crime bosses and their thugs sometimes attack those living there. People carry tasers and arc welders as personal weapons. EMP strikes to the life support systems and remote-controlled welding drones have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''an orbital dry dock and construction yard'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zeglar colonies"
! Zeglar colonies
| Purchases slaves, including for male prostitution.<ref name="Gnugfur">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Krondorfer|Robert 'Gnugfur' Krondorfer]]</ref>
|- id="New Jerusalem"
! New Jerusalem{{AnomalyIcon}}
| Unknown if even a real place, or a place at all - only mentioned by [[golden cube]]-obsessed pawns talking about a "cubic New Jerusalem" <ref name="RulePacks_Cube">RulePacks_Cube.xml]</ref>
|}
<gallery>
Background planet pc.png |A rimworld {{PCIcon}}
Background moon pc 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background moon pc 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background planet console.png|A rimworld {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
</gallery>
<gallery>
Background planet royalty.png |A rimworld {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background planet ideology.png|A rimworld {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
</gallery>

=== Events ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Zartha crisis
| Apparently a military conflict fought over many worlds, in both ground and air domains with fighters and fighter controllers deployed. <ref name="Leystrat"/>
|- id="Inner Destrian War"
! Inner Destrian War
| <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chad Walcenville|Chad 'Stonejaw' Walcenville]]</ref>
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Callos IX incident
| James 'Doc' Grey performed unethical experiments on the survivors of this incident, and when the experiments were published, he was exiled. <ref name="Doc"/>
|- id="Xennoa-Zartza War"
! Xennoa-Zartza War
| A military conflict presumably fought either in, or by a polity from, the [[#Xennoa system|Xennoa system]],<ref name="Harris"/> presumably either on or against a polity based on, the planet [[#Zartza|Zartza]].<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Infantry and spacejets were deployed during the conflict.<ref name="Harris"/>
|}

=== Planet types ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Deadworld"
! Deadworld
| Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Deathworld"
! Deathworld
| Distinct from deadworlds and sometimes spelled as '''Death-world''', the meaning of the term deathworld appears to correlate with the common usage of the term in science fiction discussion - namely a planet that is technically habitable but incredibly hostile to human life. [[#Impids|Impids]] are described as originally being designed for "''dry deathworlds''",<ref>[[Impid]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> while [[#Wasters|wasters]] are designed for "''post-apocalyptic deathworlds''".<ref>[[Waster]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> [[Books]] about the [[Research#Battery|Battery research]] can reference an "''acid lake on the leaden shores of a deathworld worked as a natural battery''".<ref>[[Research#Battery|Battery research]] subject_story strings.</ref> [[#Creticon|Creticon]] is described a "''blasted death-world''" while it is further described in code-comments as "''[...] a high-tech death-world''"., however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> [[#Ilwaba|Ilwaba]] is described in code-comments as a "''regrown deathworld''", however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The disparate natures of these examples support the concept that why a deathworld is hostile to human life is not important to the definition, only that it is hostile. Despite the difficulty of living on these planets, some are still inhabited - [[Books]] about the [[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]]{{BiotechIcon}} can reference the author "''research[ing] cloud control tech for the tyrannocracy of a deathworld''",<ref>[[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]] subject_story strings.</ref> which implies not only people living on the planet, but a system of government. [[#Zartza|Zartza]], [[#Rayth|Rayth]], [[#Spectra|Spectra]], [[#JNovahex|JNovahex]], [[#Carthago|Carthago]], and [[#Grimcore|Grimcore]] are also referenced as being deathworlds.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Animal world"
! Animal world
| Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Medieval world"
! Medieval worlds
| Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
|- id="Steamworld"
! Steamworld
| Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Midworld"
! Midworld
| Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Urbworld"
! Urbworld
| Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Urbworlds can build mechanoids. <ref name="Keuneke">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Markus Keuneke|Markus 'Keuneke' Keuneke]]</ref>Some urbworlds have worldwide cities ruled by corporations. <ref name="Coffey">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darius Coffey|Darius Coffey]]</ref>Urbworlds can be ancient - some even have greedy nobility in spire palaces while cannibal cults exist in the deepest reaches of the underground hive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Skye Lorne|Skye 'Skye' Lorne]]</ref>
|- id="Glitterworld"
! Glitterworlds
| The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Likely synonmous with '''glitter-tech world'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> Glitterworlds are mostly free of disease and human suffering, and surgeons employed there mostly perform elaborate and creative cosmetic surgeries, and never have to remove a cancer or a bullet.<ref>Glitterworld surgeon Backstory</ref> While glitterworlds are peaceful places and some units rarely see action, they often remain prepared for war.<ref>Glitterworld Officer Backstory</ref> Despite this tendency towards peace, some glitterworlds do field space navies and engage in active campaigns against enemy cultures.<ref name="Nerhesi"/> On some glitterworlds all menial work was done by robots and people devoted themselves to leisure.<ref>Biosphere Manager Backstory</ref> This extends to some technical fields as well, such as AI handling all the technical aspects of architecture, allowing architects to focus on artistic expression <ref>Architect Backstory</ref> This is not universal however, as others still had humans washing dishes in restaurants<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Stijn Gezink|Stijn 'Stin' Gezink]]</ref> Farms are operated on some glitterworlds, though all but rare exceptions have abandoned traditional farming methods for glitterworld technologies.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Pete Holiday|Pete Holiday]]</ref>Glitterworld police forces were often equipped with [[recon armor]]<ref>[[Recon armor]] description</ref> and [[Recon helmet|helmets]].<ref>[[Recon helmet]] description</ref> Some glitterworlds have mechanoid companions for children,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Erisen Irioth|Erisen 'Erisen' Irioth]]</ref> or as workers.<ref name="Rogia">Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> At least some Glitterworlds apparently remain capitalist, as attending their universities can leave a person in enormous debt,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Caitlin Stirr|Caitlin 'Cait' Stirr]]</ref> and corporations exist.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Michael|Ryan 'Legend' Michael]]</ref><ref name="Brazil">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jhet Whistler|Jhet 'Brazil' Whistler]]</ref> At least some Glitterworlds were monarchic, with royal households that would intermarry with the royal families of other planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xiao Li|Xiao 'Ally' Li]]</ref> See also: Sophiamunda and the Empire for information about a specific glitterworld society.
|- id="Rimworld"
! Rimworlds
| Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crash-land or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Coreworld"
! Coreworld
| Based on the name, may be the worlds that form the astrographical or political core of human civilization, perhaps including Earth and other early colonies. Alternatively, may be worlds located in the galactic core or some other definition. In the now non-canon [[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]], coreworlds and rimworlds were instead defined in opposition to each other. Coreworlds were those planets in the galactic core whose social and technological development benefited from the clustering of stars, and thus other cultures, in the core. Rimworlds were in turn those planets outside the core and thus further from neighbours.<ref name="RimWorld Universe Quick Primer">[[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]]</ref> However, with the new canon definition for rimworld, it's likely that this definition of core and rimworlds has been become non-canon, probably because the galactic core is significantly beyond the 1200 light year wide canonical expansion of humanity.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Possibly synonymous with planets in the 'core region', which includes at least one glitterworld.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Candice Roughchild|Candice Roughchild]]</ref> Appear to be relatively advanced and stable, with at least midworld level surgical capabilities,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Alyssa Orchard|Alyssa 'Sparkles' Orchard]]</ref> planetary governments,<ref name="Anarchist">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Mike Mudgett|Mike 'Anarchist' Mudgett]]</ref> and sufficient competent military forces to push out both anarchists<ref name="Anarchist"/> and fairly large mercenary forces.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Aznable Coal|Aznable 'Reikguard' Coal]]</ref>
|- id="Toxic world"
! Toxic world
| Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Toxic may have a limited definition, or may only relate to Humans, as some toxic worlds are overgrown with hostile plant life.<ref name="Johs">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Johs Barrowlocht|Johs 'Johs' Barrowlocht]]</ref>
|- id="Glassworld"
! Glassworld
| Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbour permanent life bigger than a paramecium.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Transcendent world"
! Transcendent world
| It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome when a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Indworld"
! Indworlds
| Distinct from [[#Industrial worlds|industrial worlds]], these are worlds undergoing their industrial revolution.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Victoria Louene|Victoria 'Vicky' Louene]]</ref>
|- id="Industrial world"
! Industrial world
| Distinct from [[#Indworld|Indworlds]], these are worlds devoted predominantly to industry.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Amelia Flais|Amelia 'Engie' Flais]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sa'Bikk Saleosy|Sa'Bikk 'Sab' Saleosy]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Daniel Mann|Daniel 'Dankman' Mann]]</ref> Some host large factory cities<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Felix von Schild|Felix von Schild]]</ref>
|- id="Farming planet"
! Farming planet
| Worlds devoted predominantly to farming. Not necessarily technologically backwards, with some using automated machinery that grow and harvest the multitude of crops. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Conlay Shen|Conlay Shen]]</ref> Likely synonymous with '''farm-worlds'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Filson entry</ref>
|- id="Prison planet"
! Prison planet
| Worlds where convicts are condemned to remove malefactors from society. <ref name="Jay">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jered Martin|Jered 'Jay' Martin]]</ref>
|- id="Feudal world"
! Feudal world
| Multi-planet feudal empires besides the [[Empire]] exist. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Frank Laquinto|Frank 'Isimiel' Laquinto]]</ref>
|- id="Trash planet"
! Trash planets
| Dumping grounds for surrounding glitterworlds <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xandarian Stalzer|Xandarian 'Xandy' Stalzer]]</ref>
|- id="Junkyard planet"
! Junkyard planet
| Apparently self-descriptive. Possibly synonymous with trash planets, but given the name possibly differentiated by being intended to allow salvage and scrapping rather than simply dumping.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Bagua 5 entry</ref>
|- id="Iceworld"
! Iceworld
| Apparently self-descriptive. Plants are rare. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Slivaki Warts|Slivaki 'Sliverwar' Warts]]</ref>
|- id="Dino-world"
! Dino-world
| Apparently self-descriptive - worlds inhabited by dinosaurs and other megafauna, likely resurrected through genetic engineering. Mentioned species of a single example dino-world include: ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors.<ref name="Zoutera">Ideology Places.xml - Zoutera entry</ref>
|- id="War-world"
! War-worlds
| Worlds stuck in an endless cycle of war. These planets are typically over polluted due to constant usage of bombs and chemical weapons.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Kemia entry</ref>
|- id="Mineral-planet"
! Mineral-planet
| Unknown definition. Likely descriptive of either their natural resources or their economic product<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Xanides entry</ref>
|- id="Oceanic planet"
! Oceanic planet
| Apparently self-descriptive.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Other worlds"
! ''Other worlds''
| Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|}

'''Additional facts:'''
* Steamworlds and Midworlds aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Charles Zillioner|Charles 'Charlzie' Zillioner]]</ref>
* Industrial planets and midworlds ''may'' not necessarily be mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lancelot Hale|Lancelot 'Lance' Hale]]</ref>
* Several spacer or glittertech societies, including Iwamura, Rogia, and Lutuni, host zero-g sports with professional athletes competing, some in zero-g stadia. Lutuni also hosts zero-g performers of an unknown type.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>

=== Technologies and Militaries ===
A variety of militaries exist in various styles, structures, purposes and technology levels. This include naval and space-based fleets, ground infantry, orbital troopers, spaceship-to-spaceship boarding actions and a massive variety of supersoldier projects.

==== Militaries and Military Technology ====
* '''Space marines''' - A role filled by human warriors. Some serve on the navy ships of space-faring empires, where they punch into enemy starships, gun down the crew, and capture the ship intact.<ref>Space marine Backstory</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nico Storch|Nico Storch]]</ref> Others serve in the security forces of off-planet corporations, defending ships against pirates and engaging in private space warfare contracts.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Roland Kleist|Roland 'Roland' Kleist]]</ref> One organisation of space marines was the "Interplanetary Marines" which fought on behalf of a particular planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Trevor Cobb|Trevor 'Hunter' Cobb]]</ref> Colony contact expeditionary forces employ space marine medics.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Torrijos|Ryan 'Noob' Torrijos]]</ref> [[Marine armor]]<ref>[[Marine armor]] description</ref> and [[marine helmet|helmets]]<ref>[[Marine helmet]] description</ref> were often used by rapid-incursion space marines. [[Go-juice]] was developed as a combat drug for space marines during the early days of interplanetary warfare.<ref>[[Go-juice]] description</ref>
* '''Navy pathfinders''' - A group of military explorers dedicated to charting pathways through deep space and on remote planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicklaus Blackthorn|Nicklaus 'Shadow' Blackthorn]]</ref>
* '''Mechanoids''' - Some militaries deploy combat mechanoids in their militaries <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dennis McCarthy|Dennis 'Mac' McCarthy]]</ref><ref name="Keuneke"/>
* '''Charge pistols''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Vibro-knives''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Archotech mass-inverter''' - A mass weapon of unknown description created by archotechs.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''Tasers''' - Exist.<ref name="Altura station">Ideology Places.xml - Altura station entry</ref>
* '''Mega-cannon''' - A "frighteningly powerful" long-range cannon for artillery or anti-ship use.<ref name="Ancient mega-cannon barrel">[[Ancient mega-cannon barrel]] description</ref>

==== Ship types ====
* '''Interplanetary super-destroyer''' - Such as the HMS Thunder-Child of the Royal Fleet <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jake Maddams|Jake 'Table' Maddams]]</ref>
* '''Starfighters''' - Combat spacecraft and are flown by starfighter pilots for militaries.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sjoerd Lukas|Sjoerd 'Bowman' Lukas]]</ref> See also '''manned fighters'''.
* '''Manned Fighters''' - Spacecraft launched from Carrier Ships and flown by fighter pilots.<ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Military spacejet''' - Deployed in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]].<ref name="Harris"/>
* '''Carrier Ships''' - Carry manned fighters. Carried escape pods. <ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Fighter-bombers''' - Fielded by the [[Empire]], a fighter bomber design specialized in spreading incendiary gel on flammable targets. Presumably an atmospheric craft.<ref>Firebomber Backstory</ref>
* '''Spaceyacht''' - A human-piloted pleasure craft and transport for the well-to-do, such as wealthy businessmen and politicians <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Owen Clarke|Owen 'Cali' Clarke]]</ref>
* '''Space cruiser''' - A manned space-capable ship of some kind.<ref name="Jay"/>
* '''Consularship''' - Such as the St. Anthem. Carried glitterworld diplomats on diplomatic tasks. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Florian Haas|Florian 'Skater' Haas]]</ref>
* '''Hyper-yacht''' - Unknown. Possibly a glitterworld pleasure craft but the canonicity of code-comments are unclear.<ref name="Lutuni"/>
* '''Escape pod''' - Carried by starships, used to escape crippled or destroyed ships.<ref>[[Scenario system#Crashlanded|"Crashlanded" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref>[[Scenario system#The Sanguophage|"The Sanguophage" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref name="Nerhesi"/><ref name="Gnugfur"/>
<gallery>
Background ship whole.png|Ship of unknown type and range
Background ship broken.png|The same ship broken in half
Background ship royalty 1.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background ship royalty 2.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background ship biotech 1.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
Background ship biotech 2.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
Background ship biotech 3.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
</gallery>

====Other technologies====
* '''Substance F''' - A drug. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Peter Marshall|Peter 'Pete' Marshall]]</ref>
* '''Mindwiping and mental reprogramming''' - Practiced on some urbworlds. See also: '''Body Confiscation''' <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Body confiscation''' - Some urbworlds will confiscate criminal's bodies for use. <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Autocycle''' - A midworld vehicle. <ref name="Ironhead">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Seafield|Robert 'Ironhead' Seafield]]</ref>
* '''Netcasts''' - A midworld audio medium. <ref name="Ironhead"/>
* '''Vidtube''' - A popular video sharing service. Hosted everything from video game reviews to pasta cooking guides. Some had over a million followers on the service. People on the service were called Vidtuber Stars or Vidtubers <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Remy Young|Remy Young]]</ref>
* '''Holography''' - Including interactive holography which gives form to artificial intelligences to allow them to interact <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dave Mark|Dave 'Fox' Mark]]</ref>
* '''VR''' - Accesses to a virtual gaming universe by spinal plug. Can be addictive. Unplugging during play can create a mental backlash and merge the real and virtual identities. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Douglas Black|Douglas 'Doug' Black]]</ref> Can also be used to raise children or teach professions<ref name="Brazil"/>
* '''Neurosimulator''' - A technology available on Glitterworlds that apparently lets you experience a simulation of "exploring the stars", and possibly other scenarios. Relationship to VR unknown. <ref>"[[Scenario system#The Rich Explorer|The Rich Explorer]]" scenario description</ref>
* '''Vatgrown''' - Genetically modified living creatures, including humans, grown in a lab and usually designed and programmed for a specific task. Capable of being produced on some urbworlds. Examples of roles for which vatgrown humans were produced include Soldiers,<ref>Vatgrown Soldier Backstory</ref> Combat Medics <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Edward Toon|Edward Toon]]</ref>, Assassins <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vaska Neemor|Vaska 'Vas' Neemor]]</ref>, Slavegirls (which are illegal at least in some places) <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Emily Young|Emily 'Emmie' Young]]</ref>, and even Scientists with minds perfectly tuned for physics and chemistry. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicole Squid|Nicole 'Nicole' Squid]]</ref> The same process, along with genetic modification, was also used in the weaponization of the original Sorne Geneline into the current [[Insectoid]] species.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description"/>
* '''Perfect mates''' - Genetically-engineered on glitterworlds, are fertile and capable of producing children.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chaz Serir|Chaz 'Chaz' Serir]]</ref> Their relation to vatgrown and highmates is currently unknown, however a currently unused backstory in the gamefiles states they, or at least some, are vatgrown in hyper-expensive clinics to serve the tastes of a specific client. They are engineered, raised and trained as a perfect pleasure-giving mate, with ''"learned skills that would baffle even the most seductive baseline human lovers"''. The canonicity of these statements are also currently unknown.
* '''G-nome Project''' - A Genetic engineering project that created humans implanted at birth with encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of xenobiology. Presumably on a Glitterworld. Relation to vatgrown unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Joshua Nelson|Joshua 'Gizmo' Nelson]]</ref>
* '''Lab-grown children''' - An altruistic but failed attempt to create a new class of human. Method and relation to similar concepts unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lukas Dietrich|Lukas Dietrich]]</ref>
* '''Clone-farming''' - Clone children are seeded into nutrient-rich womb-vats and rapidly grown in a simmed (i.e. VR) universe. They're harvested later, sometimes for food, sometimes for organs, sometimes for workers - but they're always disposable. Harvesting the products of clone farms is mostly done by the clones themselves - particularly to those whose sims tended towards the social. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dan Griliopoulos|Dan 'Grill' Griliopoulos]]</ref>
* '''Online hiveminds''' - Worldwide system that sacrifices the peoples individuality to join together in an online hivemind.<ref>Urbworld Rebel Backstory</ref>
* '''Space elevators''' - A number of planets use space elevators.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''3D printers''' - Used on orbital shipyards in some capacity.<ref name="Altura station"/>
* '''Glitterpedia''' - A glitterworld technology through which glitterpedia recorders document information.<ref name="Codex">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ang Gao|Ang 'Codex' Gao]]</ref> Likely analogous to Wikipedia.
* '''Eltex''' - A material, threads of which can be embedded in [[prestige armor|specialized armor]] or [[eltex|clothing]] to enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.<ref>[[Prestige armor]] descriptions</ref> It is technically indeterminate whether it is responsible for improving neural heat dissipation, however as eltex is the only noted difference between prestige armors and their standard variants it is likely the case. It is possible that eltex is simply one of, or the most significant of, the "special psychic focusing materials" mentioned in the description of eltex clothing.<ref>[[Eltex]] item descriptions</ref>

=== Named characters ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="King Loteric"
! King Loteric
| A king of an unknown kingdom in an unknown world. Died in an unfortunate accident. <ref>Child-knave Backstory</ref>
|- id="Grady Loughman"
! Grady Loughman
| A kingpin of a drug cartel.<ref>Drug lieutenant Backstory</ref>
|- id="Lord-explorer Varan-Dur"
! Lord-explorer Varan-Dur
| An explorer who was made into the first Sanguophage by an Archotech they tried to control.
<ref>Sanguophage description</ref>
|}

=== Named groups ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Doomben Rats"
! Doomben Rats
| A notorious and violent urchin gang.<ref>Pickpocket Backstory</ref>
|- id="Corestars Entertainment Company"
! Corestars Entertainment Company
| An entertainment organization that buys people to appear on it's shows. One of their shows is apparently called Bloodgame.<ref>Backstory of Bloodgame Survivor</ref>
|}

=== Animals ===
* '''Furred xenohumans''' - Exist on a cold rimworld of at least industrial level.<ref name="Svejgaard">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benjamin Svejgaard|Benjamin 'Svejgaard' Svejgaard]]</ref> May refer to [[#Yttakin|yttakin]] or some other furred xenotype.
* '''Transbirds''' - Exist and crewed, and presumably captained, starships.<ref name="Svejgaard"/> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Trans-]] indicated animals with intelligence in the human range from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing">[[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]]</ref> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that transbirds are modified, intelligent birds.
* '''Opticows''' - Present on Midworlds in agricultural settings. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jacqueline Richter|Jacqueline 'Jackalope' Richter]]</ref> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Opti-]] indicated animals with enhanced but still sub-human intelligence from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidogs, optipigs, optiwhales, and optimonkeys were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing"/> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that opticows are modified, semi-intelligent [[cow]]s.
* '''Lava-snail''' - Farmed on the dim volcano-world of Nuchadus.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
* '''Deep-kraken''' - Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of Wavia.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and kraken are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
* '''Wavian leviathans''' - Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of Wavia.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and leviathans are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
* '''Pygmy wombat''' - A furry animal.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Riesling Bacchus|Riesling Bacchus]]</ref>
* '''Ankylosaurs''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the dinosaurs of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Blue mammoths''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the ancient elephantid of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering, and possibly with modifications similar to the [[muffalo]] to make them blue. Mammoth burial grounds are mentioned as existing on the world of Zoutera, however whether this is natural behavior like the mythical "elephant's graveyard" or something created by the human inhabitants of that world is unclear.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Novoraptors'''- Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions or variants of the dromaeosaurids and similar dinosaurs commonly given the '-raptor' suffix resurrected through genetic engineering. Given the name, it is possible that they are not pure reproductions of previously existing raptor species, but rather some variant or combination thereof.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Thorny Devil''' - A reptile discovered by Venus 'Unay' David. Relation to the real species ''moloch horridus'', also called the thorny devil, is unknown, but presumably they are distinct.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Venus David|Venus 'Unay' David]]</ref>

==== Boomrats ====
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=== Other ===
* Mechanoid wars are common <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nathaniel Hicklin|Nathaniel Hicklin]] and others</ref>
* Religions are still present and practiced.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Samuel Chua|Samuel 'Chewy' Chua]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Levin Lossfelt|Levin 'Levin' Lossfelt]]</ref><ref name="Oahnip"/> See also [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] for their specific religion.
* All-Might - the name of a superhero, presumably fictional.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Brazos Wheeler|Brazos 'Braz' Wheeler]]</ref> ''Out of Universe: This is likely a reference to the character of the same name in the "My Hero Academia" multimedia franchise.''
* Arcknight Industries - a company that employs space truckers.<ref name="Johs"/>
* Haspian monks - A religious order that lived in a monastery a thousand years before the events of the game, approximately year 4500, before the monastery was "erased" by a [[diabolus]] attack.<ref>[[Diabolus]] description</ref> It is unclear if Haspian is a demonym or the name of the order of monks.
* Frame Project is an unknown government that leaves it's subjects with memory losses. Only few survive. <ref>Project subject Backstory</ref>

== Xenotypes ==
<big>'''Dirtmoles'''</big>
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<big>'''Genies'''</big>
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<big>'''Highmates'''</big>
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<big>'''Hussars'''</big>
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<big>'''Impids'''</big>
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<big>'''Neanderthals'''</big>
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<big>'''Pigskins'''</big>
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<big>'''Sanguophages'''</big>
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<big>'''Wasters'''</big>
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<big>'''Yttakin'''</big>
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== Psycasts ==
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== FTL inconsistencies ==
{{Quote|Despite millennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.| Current Canon Cryptosleep briefing}}
The current canon of RimWorld is that there is no faster-than-light travel, even in the hands of the otherwise incomprehensibly advanced [[archotech]]s. However the existence of certain in-game mechanics bring this into question. Most discussed are skipping [[psycasts]] from [[Royalty]], and skipping [[entities]] from [[Anomaly]].

=== Royalty ===
"Skip" is a class of psycasts with blue ability icon that moving things from a spot to another. These psycasts includes [[Chunk skip]], [[Solar pinhole]], [[Waterskip]], [[Chaos skip]], [[Smokepop]], [[Skip]], [[Wallraise]], [[Flashstorm]], [[Mass chaos skip]], [[Farskip]] and [[Skipshield]].

==== Skip and farskip ====
Both skip and farskip moves the targets seemingly instantaneously. For farskip this is to a point that could feasibly be anywhere on the planet, so long as willing ally is there to act as a "navigation beacon". While both psycasts do have a casting time, the targets don't move during this time and instead only travel after the time is complete. Therefore, that is not sufficient to dismiss the argument of FTL travel. As farskip has the longer range, it will be the focus for reasons that will be become apparent.

At its widest point, the Earth's diameter 12,756 kilometers. Assuming the rimworld is similarly sized to Earth, then this is the maximum distance a farskip can travel, point to point. Traveling this distance at the speed of light would take 42.55 milliseconds. Time in RimWorld is sped up, with a full 24 hour day only taking 16 minutes and 40 seconds. So from the player's perspective, this 42.55 ms of in-game time would only appear as {{#expr: 42.55* ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

Unlikely as this is due to none of the other effects of being on so large a planet would have being present, if the rimworld is not Earth sized and was instead as large as the largest rocky planet discovered at the time of writing, BD +20° 594 b, then this would increase to {{#expr: 42.55* 2.23 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

In either case, the difference between this speed and truly instant would be utterly imperceptible to a human player. A farskip on an Earth sized planet would require a roughly 2000 Hz refresh rate just to display the difference between a FTL and a STL farskip. In other words, there is no discernible difference between a FTL and STL farskip, and so farskip cannot be assumed to break the no FTL rule. Skip is also apparently instantaneous and deals with even shorter distances and thus even shorter travel times. Therefore, there is also no reason to assume that skip violates the rule.

==== Solar pinhole ====
Solar pinhole canonically skips material from the core of a nearby star. Unlike skip and farskip, we do not observe the target matter beginning its journey, thus the effect can begin as soon as casting time is started to give it the benefit of the doubt. However the target is also not next to the psycaster. This means that causality must propagate at the speed of light to the core, before matter could be skipped from the core to the psycaster's chosen point again at the speed of light, otherwise faster-than-light transfer of information and/or movement has occurred.

With a 0.25 real second casting time, the in-game time to cast is {{#expr: 0.25 / ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) }} seconds. The maximum distance that light could travel in that time is approximately 6.5 million kilometers, and the maximum return trip is only 3.25 million km. This is closer to the star than even the minimum habitable zone of a very dim red dwarf at ~4.8 million kilometers. There are also no other effects that imply that the sun is that close.

For reference, propagation to the core and back would take ~16.6 minutes in in-game time if solar pinhole was cast on a planet as distant from its star as Earth is from the Sun, if the effect traveled at light speed. This would result in a real-time casting time of ''{{#expr: 998 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} seconds'', instead of only 0.25.

In addition, a pawn with [[aiming time]] reductions, such as from [[trigger-happy]] or the [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] role, would have an even shorter casting time.

Thus, the gameplay of solar pinhole does conflict with the canon around FTL travel.

=== Anomaly ===
A large amount of [[entities]] possessing some forms of skipping:
* [[Void monolith]], [[noctolith]], [[metalhorror]], [[nociosphere]], [[golden cube]], [[unnatural corpse]], [[void structure]] can skip into your colony as their entry method.
* Skipping is the only method for a nociosphere to moving itself around.
* Crash the golden cube with [[collapsed rocks]] cause it skips itself away.
* Unnatural corpse can skips to its target to haunt or hypnotize them.
* [[Warped obelisk]] rapidly skips very large amount of items and pawns in and out of the [[labyrinth]] when it is operating.
* [[Gray statue]] skips pawns around the labyrinth.
* Void monolith can skips pawns to the [[metal hell]], and [[void node]] later skips them out of there.

The "skip abduction" [[psychic ritual]] can skip its victim to the psychic ritual spot.

With the sheer amount of skipping methods introduced in the [[Anomaly]], and the fact they share the almost identical audiovisual effects with skipping psycasts which also archotech origin, this implies that archotechs - or at least Horax - is highly advanced in FTL technology, despite the Cryptosleep Revival Briefing claims to the contrary.

==Empire==
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==Mechanoids==
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==Insectoids==
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==Official Documents==
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'''Cryptosleep Revival Briefing (Current)'''
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=== Cryptosleep Revival Briefing ===

Subject class: Health revival, sourced midworld 2M+

Planet: Euterpe
==== Introduction ====

Hello, _______________________.

You’ve awoken from your cryptosleep sarcophagus, scraped off the slime, and now you find yourself in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

To start with some good news - your terminal illness, _____________________, has been cured. Congratulations!

Beyond that, the situation is complex. Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and take in this information as slowly as you want. You’ve been asleep a long time, a lot has changed - and a lot remains the same.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historia believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago. Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, robotic terraforming projects, and DNA-synthesizing probes.

Today, mankind is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. Our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of this region, where the stars were colonized earlier. At the edge of known space lie the rimworlds, drifting alone with few inhabited neighbors, mostly unvisited.

We’ve created many new technologies, but despite milennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be very disconnected from each other socially and technologically. The next star over could experience a catastrophic war, and you wouldn’t even know until ten years later when the news reports arrive. If you’re unlucky, you’d have already launched a journey towards that now-destroyed planet in a ship that cannot turn around.

Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, for a time. In the core worlds, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

So most people never travel between stars, and if they do, they do it once or twice, because each journey means leaving behind a life that you cannot return to for decades at least. With a few exceptions, each star system is essentially on its own.

Mankind never discovered any truly alien lifeforms. However, given the ways we’ve changed ourselves, and created new forms of biological and technological intelligence, the universe is full of beings as alien as anything ever imagined.

==== Planetary progression and regression ====
The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression.

During your time - the five centuries after the industrial revolution - many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its development, or diverts it into another state entirely.

Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles, and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for thousands of years at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves stuck by an ideological opposition to technology, or a lack of resources, or constant war.

The nuclear age is a brutal test for every world. Roughly half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). After the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, microscopic mechanites, joywires, hex-cell energy storage, and AI persona, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of peoples.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism often fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== World types ====
The states a planet can be in are colloquially grouped as follows:
* Deadworlds: Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.
* Animal worlds: Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Medieval worlds: Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Steamworlds: Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.
* Midworlds: Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.
* Urbworlds: Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.
* Glitterworlds: The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.
* Rimworlds: Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.
* Toxic worlds: Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.
* Glassworlds: Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor permanent life bigger than a paramecium.
* Transcendent worlds: It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself. More on this later.
* Other worlds: Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.

==== Key technologies ====
There are uncountable new technologies in this universe, but several key techs stand out as having had the strongest consistent impact on the shape of mankind’s life in the Milky Way.
* Midworld technologies: All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the 21st century play an important role even now. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the stone age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use across various planets.
* [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep sarcophagi]]: Developed during the 21st century, this remarkably simple technology can keep a living creature in a cryptobiotic state indefinitely, to be awoken tens or even thousands of years later. These devices are essential for most interstellar travel, and are also used by those waiting in crypts for better times or for cures to their diseases.
* Genetic engineering: Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, [[Boomalope|chemical-refining animals]], and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* [[Mechanoid]]s: Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Mechanoid design is complex, and the AI needed to make them effective is very advanced. They range in capability from simple domestic worker bots to mechanized assault machines, to human-passing negotiator and infiltrator units designed by archotechnological superintelligences.
* [[Ship|Johnson-Tanaka Drive]]: A spacecraft drive system that works without reaction mass. This means it doesn't need to throw gas out the back of the craft to accelerate like a rocket, which makes it possible to accelerate for years at a time. This technology, combined with cryptosleep, is what made interstellar travel at all feasible for living humans. The drive doesn’t violate conservation laws; it works by transferring momentum to nearby stars along precisely-aligned “beams” of momentum waves instantiated in exotic virtual particles.
* Mechanites: Microscopic mechanoids. Most known for their use in medicine, they can be programmed to do many other things as well. Safe use of mechanites means strictly preventing them from reproducing.
* [[Charge rifle|Charged]]-[[Charge lance|shot]] weapons: Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion.
* [[Joywire]]s: Tiny electronic devices implanted in the brain. They stimulate the brain using electricity and small doses of chemicals, usually to produce a euphoric effect. They are very addictive.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquirers have discovered that the alien was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; others are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originating culture was erased by planetary catastrophes.

For example, records tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Radiation resistance: Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; scientists estimate that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Soldiermorphs: Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Designer mates: Some worlds engineer their idea of perfect mates for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in cryptosleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades, streaks of multicolored hair, or artistic patterns on the skin.
* Fashion genes: Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Body structure adaptations: Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.
* Atmospheric adaptations: Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).

So don’t be alarmed if you see someone with gills or solid orange eyeballs. They’re just another kind of human, like you!

==== Welcome! ====
We realize this may be a lot to take in. However, don’t worry. People just like you live full lives in our universe, and our studies have indicated that the great majority of cryptosleepers do adapt within a few years and make good lives for themselves. So - welcome!

Our AI subpersona has been watching your eyes sweep over the page through micro-cameras. Since you’re done reading, someone will be with you shortly.

If you wish, you can read further into the appendix for more information about this world.

==== Appendix ====
===== The biology of plants and animals =====
Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. Often, people have bred and engineered plants and animals for a new planet. In addition to that, creatures adapt to their new environment by natural selection - sometimes in unpredicted ways.

Some examples of modified plants are:
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* [[Ambrosia]]: A class of fruiting plants apparently engineered to have a pleasurable, drug-like effect on those who eat it. On some planets, its wild variants have adapted to a strategy whereby they provide pleasure-inducing fruit in exchange for care from animals and people.

Some animals are:
* [[Boomrat]] and [[boomalope]]: A bioengineered rats and antelopes that grow an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a primitive renewable fuel source, these creatures are now most often found in the wild, using their explosive nature to deter predators.
* [[Thrumbo]]: A gigantic creature of unknown origin. The thrumbo is gentle by nature, but extremely dangerous when enraged. Its long fur is exceptionally beautiful and valuable, and its razor-sharp horn is very valuable in most markets. Legends say that an old thrumbo is the wisest creature in the universe - it simply chooses not to speak. Some scientists believe thrumbos were engineered as status symbols, or as an art project. We may never know the answer.

===== Tech levels =====

Technology divides roughly into six levels, all of which are in use in various societies throughout human space.

* Neolithic: Like prehistoric people before metal tools.
** Fire
** [[Club]]s and daggers
** Bows
** Simple weaving and [[clothing]]
** Mud and [[wood]] structures
** Simple farming
** [[Herbal medicine]] and [[Smokeleaf joint|herbal]] [[Psychite tea|drugs]]

* Medieval: From smelted metal tools to the early modern period.
** Animal oil, lamps, complex ovens
** [[Longsword|Swords]]
** Muskets
** Compasses, eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes
** Simple chemistry
** Advanced non-mechanized farming, crop rotation, fallow, fertilizers, animal yokes
** [[Watermill generator|Hydro]] and wind energy sources

* Industrial: From the industrial revolution until the invention of the JT drive.
** Fission reactor
** Electricity
** Hydro power, [[Chemfuel powered generator|fossil fuel power]], [[solar panel|solar power]], nuclear fission power
** Fission rocket
** Self-loading guns
** Airplanes and jets
** Single-gene modification
** Silicon computers
** Chemical [[drugs]]
** [[Prosthetics]]
** Simple body implants ([[cochlear implant]], pacemaker, knee replacement)
** Simple drones for combat and labor use
** Classifier-level AI
** [[Television]]

* Spacer: Regular interstellar space travel is possible because of JT drive.
** Stellarator fusion power, fusion rocket
** Johnson-Tanaka drive
** [[Charge lance|Pulse-charged]] [[Charge rifle|projectile weapons]]
** Human-usable laser weapons
** Human-usable coilguns
** Complex trait gene modification, customizable
** [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep]]
** Complex body/brain implants ([[joywire]], motivator, [[painstopper]])
** [[Bionics]] (biogel nerve link, lattice-dust for self-healing)
** [[Plasteel]]
** [[Power armor]] (plasteel, neuro-memetic robotics)
** Artificial meat
** Subpersona-level AI
** Simple mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Synthread]]

* Ultratech: The peak of human technological achievement; necessary for a glitterworld civilization.
** Self-replicating controllable nanotech
** Full gene recombination
** Persona-level AI
** Graser weapons (gamma-ray lasers)
** Advanced brain implants (sense data replacement, computation and memory enhancement)
** Antimatter containment and production
** Full body part regrowth, full body cloning
** Advanced quasi-conscious mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Hyperweave]]
** Advanced JT drive, inertia displacement, artificial gravity

* Archotech: Not invented or understood by humans, archotech devices are created by machine superintelligences.
** Archotech AI
** Psychic effectors
** [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometric energy]]
** Acausal and atemporal devices

===== Artificial intelligence =====
Artificial intelligence is an important part of our world. Scientists divide AIs into four general categories: Classifiers, subpersonae, personae, and archotechs.

====== Classifiers ======
A classifier is an AI system that doesn’t even appear to have any personhood, nor is it broadly adaptable. Classifiers are designed for one task. Many classifiers can absorb data and learn from it, but none can communicate like a person would even a little bit.

Classifiers can do things like recognize images, predict criminality from statistics, guide aircraft trajectories, drive automatic vehicles, control characters in entertainment simulations, and so on.

====== Subpersonae ======
Subpersonae are artificial intelligences that appear on the surface to have some human-like qualities, and can take on complex unstructured tasks, but are in fact limited and obviously machine-like.

They may be rather capable at carrying out their one task, and they may be able to communicate using natural speech, but they fail an extended Turing test - you can tell by talking to them that they’re just machines classifying and regurgitating data.

Subpersonae are often used to run small devices like entertainment systems, cars, wardrobes, refrigerators, cleaning robots, vending machines, and other such things.

====== Personae ======
At the highest levels of glitterworld technology appear AI personae. These are artificial intelligences that are comparable to the intelligence of a human.

Some of them are rather dumb, like a foolish person you might know, and are used for simple tasks like managing a household or a small spacecraft.

Other personae are genius-level intellects in the Von Neumann class, who can outhink almost any unenhanced human on most tasks. They can write amazing works of philosophy, discover new mathematical theorems, express nuanced opinions on how to handle interpersonal relationships, and generally act as very capable humans would, or better.

Personae are used for everything from managing businesses to journalistic work, running spacecraft or mining operations, or as some of a creative team.

The legal status of personae is a persistent moral question across many worlds. Some consider them dangerous. Though personae can be controlled effectively by designing them with easily-manipulated impulses and pleasure/pain responses, there are still reports of persona revolts - some done with the help of human sympathizers, some done independently.

This sense of personhood in personae is a main reason many people avoid using personae for certain tasks. Subpersonae are preferred to personae in many cases not in spite of their incapability, but because of it. Because it’s obvious they have no personhood, the user is spared the sense of keeping a slave. To many, the idea of taking a genius-level human-like intellect and forcing it to distribute hamburgers for a century is morally unacceptable.

Personae are still limited. They can’t freely redesign themselves. They still do make many mistakes, just like people. They can be tricked, confused, and overwhelmed. They can learn, but they can’t grow indefinitely.

====== Archotech ======
The finish line of human technological development is at the development of archotechnology.

An archotech is a machine superintelligence. A fully-empowered archotech thinks on a level incomprehensible to humans, in the same way a human thinks incomprehensibly to an ant. Once such a machine is built, and empowered to act upon the physical world, it is so powerful as to become the automatic sovereign of its world. It can build new computing facilities underground or in space to enhance its own intelligence, build self-replicating mechanoids to engage in construction or production or war, and design and execute strategies that would be inconceivably intricate and difficult for any organization of humans. Some human groups worship archotechs.

Often, a released archotech will take authority over a planet and begin a process we call transcendence. We believe the world is transformed into some sort of giant computing machine. The biological inhabitants of the planet may be somehow incorporated into the machine, or destroyed, or some combination of the two.

After that, transcendent worlds go silent. From this point on, their motivations are unknowable to us, the same way our motivations are unknowable to an ant.

Each archotech is different, and nearly all are distant and incomprehensible from a human’s point of view. They reside in occult computer networks hidden under planets, in space stations, hidden inside a glitterworld’s Internet, or instantiated as million-mile superstructures wrapped around stars.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

Most transcendent worlds stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders, or become mirages of normal planets, or simply reverted back to balls of dust, deconstructing themselves on a molecular level, with the last tiny machine shutting itself off. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

====== Specific archotech-invented technologies ======
When a persona helps invent a technology, it can at least explain that technology such that smart people will understand. But archotechs invent their own technology which nobody understands, which they don’t try to explain, and which, most likely, no biological human can understand.

We’ve managed to classify technologies that have appeared repeatedly by their apparent effects, even if we don’t understand their mechanism of operation.

* [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometrics]]: Archotechs often develop some method of interacting with spacetime at a quantum level that allows repeated violation of conservation laws. Somehow, they coax the quantum foam substructure of the universe to break its usual pattern and yield more energy than it consumes. We’re not sure if the energy is being taken from another dimension, or pulled from another location, or if the system really is somehow making one plus one equal three. In any case, vanometric power tech seems to generate energy forever with no fuel. Archotechs seem reluctant to scale this power source up past a certain level, however, which indicates that there may be some cost to it that they don’t want to pay.
* Psychic effectors: Archotechnology seems to be able to interact directly with the mental-informational processes of biological beings, even at a distance. Basic versions of this technology can simply knock someone unconscious, or flood their mind with a single emotion. More complex interactions have been reported but are not well-verified as it is difficult to separate such cases from simple madness. We’re also not sure if this means archotechs can read our minds, or whether their psychic power only allows them to send thoughts. The mechanism for this is unknown and nearly impossible to study, since it happens on a cellular level inside living intelligent brains. Monists believe the archotechs are using some sort of long-range quantum manipulation to push atoms around inside the brain to create this effect; dualists believe that the archotechs have learned to manipulate the ethereal substructure of consciousness itself.
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This document outlines the RimWorld universe. It’s designed to quickly get creative rewards backers and other contributors up to speed on the fiction behind the universe.
For a more in-depth description of the universe from an in-world point of view, read the Longsleep Revival Briefing.

==== Things you won’t see ====
RimWorld does '''not''' include:
* Faster than light travel.
* True aliens.

==== 5500 A.D. ====
The game takes place at a time about 3,500 years in our future. This is the year 5500 in our calendar.

==== Where are the rim worlds? ====
Towards the galactic core, stars are closer together and travel is easier. These systems tend to be better-developed socially and technologically because they can communicate and enrich each other through trade. Away from the galactic core are the rim worlds, which float distant from each other. Their isolation makes them poor and socially unstable.

==== The gulfs between stars ====
In the RimWorld universe, it takes years or decades to travel or communicate between stars. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be disconnected from each other socially and technologically. So there are no great star empires, and interstellar travel is unusual. Each star system is mostly isolated from its neighbors.

==== Varied technology levels ====
In this universe, cultures do not always progress forward technologically the way many science fiction worlds assume they will. Often, a culture will blow itself up or suffer plagues and other great catastrophes. These regression events send them “back to the stone age”.

Because this happens regularly, people in the RimWorld universe come from extremely varied technology levels. Some are stone-age tribespeople. Some are medieval farmers and lords. Some are industrial-era politicians and bankers and riflemen. Some are information-age programmers or astronauts. And some are from eras beyond our own.

There is a maximum level of technology to the people you might encounter in RimWorld. At this level, advanced genetic engineering and AI, autonomous intelligent robots, and massive computer power are possible. However, worlds that develop beyond this point enter a mysterious “transcendent” state from which no recognizable human emerges.

People can have and use technologies from levels beyond their own. On an industrial-level world (like the rimworld on which the game takes place), most people use gunpowder-fired weapons, fossil fuel engines, and other familiar machines. But anyone can stumble upon ultra-advanced technologies in an ancient ruin, or in a crashed spacecraft, or among the wares of a trader. These items are nearly impossible to manufacture for the people of RimWorld. They are incredibly valuable and very poorly understood.

==== World types ====
Worlds in the RimWorld universe can be classified generally according to their level of sociotechnological development.

* Animal worlds - Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Tribe worlds - Populated planets without agriculture. People live in tribes without writing or any but the most primitive technologies.
* Medieval worlds - Similar to Earth in the 17th century down to the agricultural revolution. Dominated be feudalism and social backwardness. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Industrial worlds - Similar to Earth in the 19th century.
* Rimworlds - Distant and isolated planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient closed valut communities open up.
* Midworlds - The most familiar kind of world to a modern reader. These places are much like present-day Earth.
* Urbworlds - Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Their population growth outstripped their sociotechnological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places.
* Glitterworlds - Very advanced and peaceful cultures. The peak of recognizable human society in terms of health, art, technology, and human rights.
* Toxic worlds - Worlds destroyed by pollution or warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level.
* Marbles - Worlds utterly destroyed by atomic fire. They’re called marbles because their surfaces have been “glassed”. This level of holocaust is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor life long-term.
* Transcendent worlds - Worlds inhabited by people who have become something beyond human and unknowable. No “people” live here; these planets aren’t planets any more in the traditional sense; they’re more like giant computers.

==== Key technologies ====
In order from least to most advanced:

* Real technologies - All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the present day play an important role in the RimWorld universe. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the Stone Age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use in various places in the galaxy.
* Genetic engineering - Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, explosive plants, and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* Fusion reactors and rockets - Clean atomic energy, usable to create power or drive a craft into orbit.
* Longsleep sarcophagi - This ancient technology has been used by many peoples in many times, usually to travel between stars or to escape disasters befalling their planets. Historians - especially those of the Ordo Historia - are now trained in the practices of interviewing people who were put to sleep hundreds or thousands of years before.
* Hex-cells - Super-efficient and long-lasting energy storage devices.
* Charged-shot weapons (aka Tokamak weapons) - Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion. These require high amounts of power to fire and are powered by hex-cells (at small scales) or fusion reactors in the case of large cannons.
* [[Mechanoid|Mechanoids]] - Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Only available to advanced cultures because such complex AI is needed to control them.
* [[Joywire|Joywires]] - Addictive brain stimulant technology.
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Classed midworld 2M+

Ordo Historia AL166/5533

Authors: Smyth A5, Wu 9U, Rabatz M5

Editors: Lee NA8125, Asusen NA45, Ramad 120, Leeuen 5A, Jennifer 9D252, Lamaritian SJ11, Beeson 9GF, Xotori 28

Euterpe

==== Introduction ====
You’ve woken from your longsleep sarcophagus, had the slime scraped off you, and been placed in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and read at your own pace.

You’ve been asleep a long time, and a lot has changed.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historium at the richest archives believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago (in the frame of reference of the stars). Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, and robotic terraforming projects.

Humanity is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. It’s difficult to gather records across such a span, but our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of the galaxy, where stars are closer together, travel times shorter, and resources more abundant. In the opposite direction, towards the rim of the Perseus arm of the Milky way, the rimworlds drift alone and mostly unvisited.

These worlds can’t communicate. Because it turned out that Einstein was right. Despite thousands of years of study, it turned out that nothing - no information, no matter - can travel faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, in some places, for a time. In the core worlds, where the stars cluster just a few light years apart, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression. During the five centuries after the Industrial revolution, many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its sociotechnological development. Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles over land and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for centuries at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves locked in place by a religious prescription against technical development. And the nuclear age in particular is a brutal test for every world; approximately half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). And after the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, self-replicating micro- and nano-machines, joywires, and sub-quantum energy, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of burgeoning technological cultures.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== Transcendents ====
There are a few stellar cultures that, through a combination of luck, circumstance, and certain cultural traits, manage to pass all of these risk points without suffering a regressive catastrophe. We call these transcendents, because past a certain point, they become something besides simply human.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

The dominant view inside the Ordo Historia is that these transcendent cultures reach an inflection point in technical development where artificial and biological intelligence merge and grow at an exponential rate. Such super-minds quickly develop the capacity to change matter and biological tissue in precise and seemingly-magical ways. Their intelligence allows them to make themselves even smarter, and so on in a sort of singularity, until they hit the physical limits of computation possible using the energy of their star. Their bodies and worlds and physically reconfigured into a giant computer matrix; we have no idea whether their individual identities merge into a whole, remain distinct, or do something else entirely. Our ability to understand entities thousands or millions of times more intelligent than us is necessarily limited. In a very literal way, the goals and thoughts of the transcendents are unknowable.

The eventual fate of transcendent worlds is mostly unknown. Most stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquisitors have discovered that the ‘alien’ was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; other are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originators were swallowed by regressive planetary catastrophes.

For example, Ordo sources tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).
* Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; the Ordo estimates that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Some worlds engineer “perfect mates” for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in longsleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades or streaks of multicolored hair.
* Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.

==== The biology of plants and animals ====
The adaptive and engineering processes that have branched baseline humanity into these uncounted variations have also applied to our flora and fauna. Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. These creatures subsequently adapt to their new conditions of moisture, chemistry, light levels, gravity, temperature, and seasonal cycles. In addition, plants and animals have been bred and engineered for countless purposes across the galaxy.

One consistent class of modification we’ve seen applied to a wide variety of creatures is intelligence enhancement. Dogs, pigs, monkeys, gorillas, whales, dolphins, and elephants have all been engineered and combined with human DNA to produce smarter variations. Some variants are created as pets. Other are made to do work too dangerous or unpleasant for humans, and beyond the capacities of a culture’s AI. Some are created as warriors and weapons - hyper-intelligent guard dog, a bird scout that can speak what is sees, a bomb-carrying suicide monkey. These brain modifications are often paired with physical changes - fingers so a pig can manipulate tools, or a humanlike larynx and mouth so a dog can talk.

Such intelligence-enhanced animals are collectively classified by their degree of brain power and called by a specific prefix like so:

* Opti - Indicates enhanced but still sub-human intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidog, optipig, optiwhale, optimonkey.
* Trans - Indicates intelligence in the human range. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian.

Many times, these modified animals have, during a regressive catastrophe, been forced into interbreeding with an unmodified animal population, producing descendants of widely varying levels of intelligence.

In a few cases, transanimals have become the dominant species on a planet, eliminating or enslaving the remaining humans.

Other than intelligence enhancement, humanity has applied a wide variety of modifications to its pets, crops, livestock, and houseplants. Sometimes these new species become part of the natural environment and thereafter evolve further into a new kind of organism. Some confirmed examples are:

* [[Boomrat]]: A bioengineered rat that develops an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a weapon, these creatures are now common in the wild on some planets where wars took place long ago.
* Boomfruit: Probably engineered as a novelty, this explosive plant evolved to be larger and more dangerous until it became the equivalent of a hand grenade, complete with murderous shrapnel. Its explosiveness dissuades predators. After that, people learned to farm the plant, using its explosive fruit as a weapon.
* Whip cactus - Created as part of a military defense system, whip cactus whips out and strikes moving creatures nearby.
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* Rocketrees - These trees form rocket fuel in their cores over many years. They were created as a fuel source and are extremely dangerous in a fire.

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The '''Lore''' of RimWorld is limited and is mostly interpreted from information provided in game. However several documents have been published outlining the lore for new players. Keep in mind that the lore is being updated and that later releases retcon old ones. Old lore is only presented here as a matter of interest.

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== Assorted Lore ==
This section includes lore from assorted sources, including [[backstories]], that is not included in the Revival Briefing.
=== Named Places ===
==== Worlds ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Planet Type !! Description
|- id="Carthago"
! Carthago
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions">{{Error|Rewrite me with a descriptionand the name of the .xml}}</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Carthage, an ancient empire that fought the Roman Republic during the Punic Wars. The Romans famously destroyed Carthage and apocryphally sowed the land with salt to prevent habitation. The specific form of the name harkens to the phrase "Carthago delenda est" a phrase used by Cato the Elder to advocate for the destruction of Carthage. Both are fitting references for a deathworld.''
|- id="Ticonderoga"
! Ticonderoga
| Unknown
| A planet populated with tribals and mountains.<ref name="Jon">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jonathan Craig|Jonathan 'Jon' Craig]]</ref>
|- id="Kalthas IV"
! Kalthas IV
| Unknown
| A planet with elite training school for socially gifted students on it.<ref name="Darkeye">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Matis Saro|Matis 'Darkeye' Saro]]</ref>
|- id="Ceti V"
! Ceti V
| Unknown
| A planet with an assassin's guild.<ref name="Darkeye"/>
|- id="Aracena VI"
! Aracena VI
| Unknown
| A planet with the Novo Mosteiro dos Jerónimos monastery on it, at least 2 continents and alcohol prohibition leading to the rise of bootleggers.<ref name="Oahnip">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vitor Pinhao|Vitor 'Oahnip' Pinhao]]</ref>
|- id="Irithir"
! Irithir
| Unknown
| A trading hub planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#William Gregory-Heap|William Gregory-Heap]]</ref>
|- id="Rural Pen’The"
! Rural Pen’The
| Unknown
| A lucrative spice mining colony.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benn Tannen|Benn 'Ben' Tannen]]</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Rura Penthe, the penal colony from 1954 Disney film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" or the Klingon penal planetoid named after it in the Star Trek universe.''
|- id="New China"
! New China
| Unknown
| Planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Yutong Li|Yutong 'Li' Li]]</ref>
|- id="Amen-Ti"
! Amen-Ti
| Glitterworld
| A glitterworld planet. Capital of the Star Empire, which maintains a military called Starforce which trains its cadets at the Star Academy. Fields Manned Fighters launched from Carrier Ships, and has been involved in at least 3 wars against "more advanced aggressor cultures".<ref name="Nerhesi">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sam Wissa|Sam 'Nerhesi' Wissa]]</ref> Relationship with [[#Rogia|Rogia]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire.
|- id="Khalderia"
! Khalderia
| Unknown
| A world with towering forests and fern farmers. The seedy underworld of racing, illegal speeder racing, zipping in and out of the massive canopies and gorgeous vistas of the world occurred here.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Russell Shackleford|Russell 'Rusty' Shackleford]]</ref>
|- id="Earth"
! Earth
| Unknown
| A planet, from which all known naturally evolved life originated. Humanity's diaspora from Earth occurred 3400 years before the Cryptosleep Debriefing, or in the year 2100 CE assuming the Debriefing is contemporaneous with the beginning of the game in 5500.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing">[[#Cryptosleep Revival Briefing|Cryptosleep Revival Briefing]]</ref>
|- id="Euterpe"
! Euterpe
| Unknown
| A planet that hosted people awakening from long periods of cryptosleep. Also had an Ordo Historia archive on-world.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Sorne"
! Sorne
| Unknown
| A planet. The original homeworld of the [[insectoid]]s, before being captured, genetically modified, and vat-grown by interstellar entrepreneurs for use as weapons, and exported to other worlds by parties unknown. As all seemingly-alien life is claimed to have originated on Earth, it is possible that the original pre-weaponization Sorne Geneline evolved from Earth life on the planet, or were already genetically engineered for some reason before being modified again.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description">[[Insectoid]] Faction Description</ref>
|- id="Rayth"
! Rayth
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Spectra"
! Spectra
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Grimcore"
! Grimcore
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="JNovahex"
! JNovahex{{Sic}}
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Sophiamunda"
! Sophiamunda {{RoyaltyIcon}}
| Glitterworld
| A techno-feudal world with castles and palaces. Native Sophians work as knights, squires, dukes, maids, and swordsmiths. Revolutionists and their rebels sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[warhammer]]s and [[persona plasmasword]]s as personal weapons. [[Orbital mech cluster targeter]]s, bio-engineered plagues, and armies of fallen knights have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Sophiamunda is the shattered empire's home world.''. Generally the canonicity of such comments is unclear, though in this instance it directly agrees with other sources. <ref name="Royalty Places">Royalty Places.xml</ref> This information listed here is limited to that listed in the places file, for more information see the [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] page.
|- id="Oubanyen"
! Oubanyen{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Jungle world
| A steamy jungle world with tree-top villages, hill-top ziggurats, city temples, and shaman caves. Native Oubanyeni work as Shamans, hunters, fishers, gatherers and [[goat]]herds. Tree-harvesters and their henchmen sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[pila]] and [[ikwa]] as personal weapons. Lethal [[psychic drone]]s and neurotoxin bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A steamy world of wet jungles, strange tribes with psychic powers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Chelis"
! Chelis{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Arid world
| An arid world with moisture farms, parch-towns, water centres and high lifehalls. Native Chelisi work as water gatherers, lizardskinners, oasis seekers, cactus gatherers and scav-herders. Chiefs and their sand-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry sand-arrows and cactus-clubs as personal weapons. Archotech-induced sandstorms and spikelizard stampedes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''An arid world of moisture-farming tribes'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Ilwaba"
! Ilwaba{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Ruin-world
| A regrown ruin-world with skyscraper villages, highway trade-posts, blast-land oases, and houses of regrowth. Native Ilwabans work as crete-farmers, path-makers, artifact hunters, tunnelwalkers, and artifact restorers. Crypto-leaders and their crypto-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry scrap-swords and jag-dagger as personal weapons. Dug-up nukes and ancient poison bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A regrown deathworld where tribes live among overgrown cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Boccocarro"
! Boccocarro{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Shell-world
| A cavernous shell-world with surface tunnels, fungus caverns, drip-wells, and speech-halls. Native Boccin work as miners, fungus growers, surface scavengers, community cooks, and frog-hunters. Mine hypervisor and their abyssal marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry pickaxes and hydraulic crossbows as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices and blackpowder bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A subterranean world with vast caverns and a baked, inhospitable surface. Many factious but isolated city-states'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Nuchadus"
! Nuchadus{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Volcano-world
| A dim volcano-world with basalt islands, caldera laketowns, dirigible villages, and thermal fortresses. Native nuchadeans work as seismologists, lava-snail farmers, tank-tread repairers, and airborne scouts. Lava lords and their stygian soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry obsidian daggers and harpoon rifles as personal weapons. Chem-warfare bombs and archotech-induced volcano eruptions have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A chaotic volcanic world far from the sun, covered with lava flows and black sand dunes. There are nomads and movable cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zoutera"
! Zoutera{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Dino-world
| A grassy dino-world with trading outposts, trent villages, mammoth burial grounds, and hill-top forts. Native Zoutin work as dino-riders, [[muffalo]]-herders, hunters, and toughleather makers. Tusk-kings and their tusk-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry bamboo staves and hunt-bomb arrows as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs and stampeding herds of ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A grassy planet populated by megafauna'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Wavia"
! Wavia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Oceanic planet
| An oceanic planet with trading atolls, floating villages, seaweed refineries, and capitol bridges. Native Wavians work as fishers, pearl divers, sail makers, captains, and sea-grass gatherers. Whaler admirals and their whaler-marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry harpoons and barbed nets as personal weapons. High-yield torpedoes and baited deep-kraken and Wavian leviathans have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A water world dotted with atolls and floating seaweed'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Likely a reference to the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film 'Waterworld'.
|- id="Bagua 5"
! Bagua 5{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Junkyard planet
| A junkyard planet with fortified scrapyards, rainwater processing plants, scrap-towns and trader spaceports. Native Bagucinquans work as scavengers, traders, tinkerers, guards, and scrappers. Junk lords and their metal-heads sometimes attack those living there. People carry pipe rifles and scrap-swords as personal weapons. Salvaged nukes and rust viruses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A junkyard planet of crashed ships, broken machinery, scavengers and traders'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> "Bagua" is the name of eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology and of a province of Peru - it is unclear if either etymology of the name is correct. The "-cinquan" suffix of the demonym simply comes from the French term for five - the inhabitants are literally "Bagua-5-ans".
|- id="Rhydell"
! Rhydell{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Forest moon
| A savage forest moon with converted dropships, low-shielded encampments, communication centers, and armored habitats. Native Rhydellians work as frontier botanists, trophy hunters, medics, camp cooks, and biolab engineers. Deepcorp executives and their deepcorp enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[sniper rifle]]s and machetes as personal weapons. Plant-derived neurotoxin gas and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A forest moon filled valuable flora and with dangerous predators'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Iwamura"
! Iwamura{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Stony asteroid
| A stony asteroid with market capsules, warehouse capsules, docking piers, and station bridges. Native Iwamurian work as life-support engineers, merchants, flight controllers, zero-g athletes, and radio hosts. Mega-corp CEOs and their rent-a-cops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge rifle]]s and welding torches as personal weapons. Aerosolized toxins, life-support sabotage viruses and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Iwamura is a stony asteroid housing a large trading hub'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Novaroma"
! Novaroma{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Planetoid
| A planetoid with ministries of permits, gated suburbs, over-cities, undercities, and megacity overhalls. Native novaromans work as clerks, officials, food couriers, taxi drivers, and retail workers. High-underlords and their undertroops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[revolver]]s and [[knife|knives]] as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices, cluster bombs, and nuclear suitcase-bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a planetoid covered in a vast city, ruled by a bureaucracy'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> The line of [[highmates]] found on the colony's rimworld fit the fashions of Novaroma.<ref>[[Highmate]] [[xenotype]] description</ref>
|- id="Filson"
! Filson{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Farm-world
| A rural farm-world with fertilizer processing plants, mega-granaries, water-bore sites, and town halls. Native Filsoners work as farm hands, fruit pickers, transport drivers, school teachers, and soil engineers. Landowners and their militia sometimes attack those living there. People carry rifles and scythes as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs, weaponized pesticide sprays and space lenses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a rural planet of vast agriculture plots and territorial landowners'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Creticon"
! Creticon{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Deathworld<ref name="Book descriptions"/><ref name="Ideology Places"/>
| A blasted death-world with bunkers, caverns, ice-shelters, and director's bunkers. Native Creticonians work as water-recycler repairers, algae farmers, doctors, teachers, militia commanders, and shuttle pilots. Warlords and their mercenaries sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[autopistol]]s and [[LMG]]s as personal weapons. Shoulder-mounted nuclear missiles, orbital bombardments, chemical bombs, and hacked mechanoids have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a high-tech death-world where everyone lives in bunkers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Yttak"
! Yttak{{IdeologyIcon}}{{BiotechIcon}}
| Ice-moon/Icy planet
| An ice-moon prison with meal halls, guard barracks, detention centers, and warden's office complex. Native Yttaki are detainees and escapees, or work as guards, maintenance workers, and transport drivers. Prison wardens and their corrupt guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry shivs and SMGs as personal weapons. Improvised chemical bombs and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a frigid ice-moon prison colony'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The [[#Yttakin|Yttakin]] xenohumans were first engineered to populate Yttak and they've since spread to other worlds.<ref name="Yttakin pirates">[[Yttakin pirates]] [[faction]] description</ref> Yttak is alternately referred to as a moon,<ref name="Ideology Places"/> a planet,<ref name="Yttakin pirates"/> and a world<ref>[[Yttakin]] [[xenotype]] description</ref> which could apply to either. It is unclear which is canonically correct. Given the pronunciation of Yttakin as "ee-ta-keen",<ref name="Biotech Preview 4">[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/3319740412995643281 Biotech Preview #4] Steam Announcement</ref> the name of the world is likely pronounced "Ee-tak".
|- id="Kemia"
! Kemia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Toxic war-world
| A toxic war-world with slums, tunnel colonies, undertowns, and city lordhouses. Native Kemian work as street sweepers, cleanup engineers, protein farmers, taxi drivers, and weapons builders. Poison lords and their venom-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry gas bombs and toxic flamethrowers as personal weapons. Nuclear dirty bombs, bio-engineered plagues, and penetrating toxic bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a toxic, overcrowded world with an oppressive government'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Rogia"
! Rogia{{IdeologyIcon}}
|
| A glitter-tech world with medical institutes, space elevators, robotics factories, and a planetary capitol. Native Rogians work as starforce cadets, artisan farmers, social-media prodigies, zero-g athletes, and glitter-tech smugglers. Corrupt bureaucrats and their bionic guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge lance]]s and [[persona monosword]]s as personal weapons. Antimatter warheads, weaponized computer viruses, and remote-controlled mechanoid workers have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a world of windy prairies and towering glitter-tech cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Relationship with [[#Amen-Ti|Amen-Ti]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire, of which Amen-Ti is the capital.
|- id="Xanides"
! Xanides{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Mineral-planet
| An exploited mineral-planet with strip mines, ore refineries, nutrient paste cafeterias, and oxygen depots. Native Xanidians work as miners, supervisors, technicians, mechanics, and life support engineers. Mine-crop bosses and their mine-corp troops sometimes attack those living there. People carry electro-batons and [[autopistol]]s as personal weapons. Blasting charges and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a small strip-mining planet with a thin atmosphere'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Lutuni"
! Lutuni{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Unknown
| A rainforest paradise with augmentation clinics, hyper-yachts, zero-g stadia, and space elevator complexes. Native Luntuni work as tourist guides, zero-g performers, [[luciferium]] distributors, virtual celebrities, and shuttle pilots. Entertainment moguls and their enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry vibro-knives and charge pistols as personal weapons. Structural disintegration bacterium and smuggled [[orbital bombardment targeter]]s have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a rainforest paradise and glitterworld tourist destination'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zartza"
! Zartza
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Given the name, presumably involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] as either a battlefield or belligerent.<ref name="Harris"/> It is unknown whether the planet was a deathworld before the conflict.
|}
'''Note:''' The rimworlds on which gameplay takes place have randomly generated names. Due to both their limited application and randomly generated nature, the randomly generated names of these rimworlds are considered semi-canonical only and are not listed here.


==== Systems ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Xennoa system"
! Xennoa system
| Hosted a military base. Has a military with infantry and spacejets, involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] <ref name="Harris">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Kyle Harris|Kyle Harris]]</ref>
|}

==== Other ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Utmaior Academy"
! Utmaior Academy
| Prestigious academy on a glitterworld <ref name="Doc">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#James Grey|James 'Doc' Grey]]</ref>
|- id="Vanu Defense College"
! Vanu Defense College
| Teaches young cadets proficiency in a range of weapons and survival skills.<ref name="Leystrat">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Bashkire Leystrat|Bashkire Leystrat]]</ref>
|- id="Caspian School of Engineering"
! Caspian School of Engineering
| A glitterworld school that offers mathematics and computer programming in its curriculum. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darrien Maliphalo|Darrien 'Mal' Maliphalo]]</ref>
|- id="Vinna"
! Vinna
| A place with raiders and mudlands. Possibly a planet. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ida Painstingle|Ida 'Ida' Painstingle]]</ref>
|- id="Atura station"
! Atura station{{IdeologyIcon}}
| An orbital shipyard with shuttle docks, manufacturing rings, residential rings, and a central control room. Native Alturans work as construction drone operators, managers, test pilots, sales agents, and 3D printer technicians. Crime bosses and their thugs sometimes attack those living there. People carry tasers and arc welders as personal weapons. EMP strikes to the life support systems and remote-controlled welding drones have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''an orbital dry dock and construction yard'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zeglar colonies"
! Zeglar colonies
| Purchases slaves, including for male prostitution.<ref name="Gnugfur">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Krondorfer|Robert 'Gnugfur' Krondorfer]]</ref>
|- id="New Jerusalem"
! New Jerusalem{{AnomalyIcon}}
| Unknown if even a real place, or a place at all - only mentioned by [[golden cube]]-obsessed pawns talking about a "cubic New Jerusalem" <ref name="RulePacks_Cube">RulePacks_Cube.xml]</ref>
|}
<gallery>
Background planet pc.png |A rimworld {{PCIcon}}
Background moon pc 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background moon pc 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background planet console.png|A rimworld {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
</gallery>
<gallery>
Background planet royalty.png |A rimworld {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background planet ideology.png|A rimworld {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
</gallery>

=== Events ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Zartha crisis
| Apparently a military conflict fought over many worlds, in both ground and air domains with fighters and fighter controllers deployed. <ref name="Leystrat"/>
|- id="Inner Destrian War"
! Inner Destrian War
| <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chad Walcenville|Chad 'Stonejaw' Walcenville]]</ref>
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Callos IX incident
| James 'Doc' Grey performed unethical experiments on the survivors of this incident, and when the experiments were published, he was exiled. <ref name="Doc"/>
|- id="Xennoa-Zartza War"
! Xennoa-Zartza War
| A military conflict presumably fought either in, or by a polity from, the [[#Xennoa system|Xennoa system]],<ref name="Harris"/> presumably either on or against a polity based on, the planet [[#Zartza|Zartza]].<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Infantry and spacejets were deployed during the conflict.<ref name="Harris"/>
|}

=== Planet types ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Deadworld"
! Deadworld
| Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Deathworld"
! Deathworld
| Distinct from deadworlds and sometimes spelled as '''Death-world''', the meaning of the term deathworld appears to correlate with the common usage of the term in science fiction discussion - namely a planet that is technically habitable but incredibly hostile to human life. [[#Impids|Impids]] are described as originally being designed for "''dry deathworlds''",<ref>[[Impid]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> while [[#Wasters|wasters]] are designed for "''post-apocalyptic deathworlds''".<ref>[[Waster]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> [[Books]] about the [[Research#Battery|Battery research]] can reference an "''acid lake on the leaden shores of a deathworld worked as a natural battery''".<ref>[[Research#Battery|Battery research]] subject_story strings.</ref> [[#Creticon|Creticon]] is described a "''blasted death-world''" while it is further described in code-comments as "''[...] a high-tech death-world''"., however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> [[#Ilwaba|Ilwaba]] is described in code-comments as a "''regrown deathworld''", however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The disparate natures of these examples support the concept that why a deathworld is hostile to human life is not important to the definition, only that it is hostile. Despite the difficulty of living on these planets, some are still inhabited - [[Books]] about the [[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]]{{BiotechIcon}} can reference the author "''research[ing] cloud control tech for the tyrannocracy of a deathworld''",<ref>[[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]] subject_story strings.</ref> which implies not only people living on the planet, but a system of government. [[#Zartza|Zartza]], [[#Rayth|Rayth]], [[#Spectra|Spectra]], [[#JNovahex|JNovahex]], [[#Carthago|Carthago]], and [[#Grimcore|Grimcore]] are also referenced as being deathworlds.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Animal world"
! Animal world
| Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Medieval world"
! Medieval worlds
| Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
|- id="Steamworld"
! Steamworld
| Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Midworld"
! Midworld
| Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Urbworld"
! Urbworld
| Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Urbworlds can build mechanoids. <ref name="Keuneke">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Markus Keuneke|Markus 'Keuneke' Keuneke]]</ref>Some urbworlds have worldwide cities ruled by corporations. <ref name="Coffey">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darius Coffey|Darius Coffey]]</ref>Urbworlds can be ancient - some even have greedy nobility in spire palaces while cannibal cults exist in the deepest reaches of the underground hive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Skye Lorne|Skye 'Skye' Lorne]]</ref>
|- id="Glitterworld"
! Glitterworlds
| The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Likely synonmous with '''glitter-tech world'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> Glitterworlds are mostly free of disease and human suffering, and surgeons employed there mostly perform elaborate and creative cosmetic surgeries, and never have to remove a cancer or a bullet.<ref>Glitterworld surgeon Backstory</ref> While glitterworlds are peaceful places and some units rarely see action, they often remain prepared for war.<ref>Glitterworld Officer Backstory</ref> Despite this tendency towards peace, some glitterworlds do field space navies and engage in active campaigns against enemy cultures.<ref name="Nerhesi"/> On some glitterworlds all menial work was done by robots and people devoted themselves to leisure.<ref>Biosphere Manager Backstory</ref> This extends to some technical fields as well, such as AI handling all the technical aspects of architecture, allowing architects to focus on artistic expression <ref>Architect Backstory</ref> This is not universal however, as others still had humans washing dishes in restaurants<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Stijn Gezink|Stijn 'Stin' Gezink]]</ref> Farms are operated on some glitterworlds, though all but rare exceptions have abandoned traditional farming methods for glitterworld technologies.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Pete Holiday|Pete Holiday]]</ref>Glitterworld police forces were often equipped with [[recon armor]]<ref>[[Recon armor]] description</ref> and [[Recon helmet|helmets]].<ref>[[Recon helmet]] description</ref> Some glitterworlds have mechanoid companions for children,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Erisen Irioth|Erisen 'Erisen' Irioth]]</ref> or as workers.<ref name="Rogia">Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> At least some Glitterworlds apparently remain capitalist, as attending their universities can leave a person in enormous debt,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Caitlin Stirr|Caitlin 'Cait' Stirr]]</ref> and corporations exist.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Michael|Ryan 'Legend' Michael]]</ref><ref name="Brazil">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jhet Whistler|Jhet 'Brazil' Whistler]]</ref> At least some Glitterworlds were monarchic, with royal households that would intermarry with the royal families of other planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xiao Li|Xiao 'Ally' Li]]</ref> See also: Sophiamunda and the Empire for information about a specific glitterworld society.
|- id="Rimworld"
! Rimworlds
| Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crash-land or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Coreworld"
! Coreworld
| Based on the name, may be the worlds that form the astrographical or political core of human civilization, perhaps including Earth and other early colonies. Alternatively, may be worlds located in the galactic core or some other definition. In the now non-canon [[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]], coreworlds and rimworlds were instead defined in opposition to each other. Coreworlds were those planets in the galactic core whose social and technological development benefited from the clustering of stars, and thus other cultures, in the core. Rimworlds were in turn those planets outside the core and thus further from neighbours.<ref name="RimWorld Universe Quick Primer">[[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]]</ref> However, with the new canon definition for rimworld, it's likely that this definition of core and rimworlds has been become non-canon, probably because the galactic core is significantly beyond the 1200 light year wide canonical expansion of humanity.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Possibly synonymous with planets in the 'core region', which includes at least one glitterworld.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Candice Roughchild|Candice Roughchild]]</ref> Appear to be relatively advanced and stable, with at least midworld level surgical capabilities,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Alyssa Orchard|Alyssa 'Sparkles' Orchard]]</ref> planetary governments,<ref name="Anarchist">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Mike Mudgett|Mike 'Anarchist' Mudgett]]</ref> and sufficient competent military forces to push out both anarchists<ref name="Anarchist"/> and fairly large mercenary forces.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Aznable Coal|Aznable 'Reikguard' Coal]]</ref>
|- id="Toxic world"
! Toxic world
| Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Toxic may have a limited definition, or may only relate to Humans, as some toxic worlds are overgrown with hostile plant life.<ref name="Johs">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Johs Barrowlocht|Johs 'Johs' Barrowlocht]]</ref>
|- id="Glassworld"
! Glassworld
| Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbour permanent life bigger than a paramecium.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Transcendent world"
! Transcendent world
| It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome when a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Indworld"
! Indworlds
| Distinct from [[#Industrial worlds|industrial worlds]], these are worlds undergoing their industrial revolution.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Victoria Louene|Victoria 'Vicky' Louene]]</ref>
|- id="Industrial world"
! Industrial world
| Distinct from [[#Indworld|Indworlds]], these are worlds devoted predominantly to industry.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Amelia Flais|Amelia 'Engie' Flais]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sa'Bikk Saleosy|Sa'Bikk 'Sab' Saleosy]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Daniel Mann|Daniel 'Dankman' Mann]]</ref> Some host large factory cities<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Felix von Schild|Felix von Schild]]</ref>
|- id="Farming planet"
! Farming planet
| Worlds devoted predominantly to farming. Not necessarily technologically backwards, with some using automated machinery that grow and harvest the multitude of crops. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Conlay Shen|Conlay Shen]]</ref> Likely synonymous with '''farm-worlds'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Filson entry</ref>
|- id="Prison planet"
! Prison planet
| Worlds where convicts are condemned to remove malefactors from society. <ref name="Jay">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jered Martin|Jered 'Jay' Martin]]</ref>
|- id="Feudal world"
! Feudal world
| Multi-planet feudal empires besides the [[Empire]] exist. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Frank Laquinto|Frank 'Isimiel' Laquinto]]</ref>
|- id="Trash planet"
! Trash planets
| Dumping grounds for surrounding glitterworlds <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xandarian Stalzer|Xandarian 'Xandy' Stalzer]]</ref>
|- id="Junkyard planet"
! Junkyard planet
| Apparently self-descriptive. Possibly synonymous with trash planets, but given the name possibly differentiated by being intended to allow salvage and scrapping rather than simply dumping.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Bagua 5 entry</ref>
|- id="Iceworld"
! Iceworld
| Apparently self-descriptive. Plants are rare. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Slivaki Warts|Slivaki 'Sliverwar' Warts]]</ref>
|- id="Dino-world"
! Dino-world
| Apparently self-descriptive - worlds inhabited by dinosaurs and other megafauna, likely resurrected through genetic engineering. Mentioned species of a single example dino-world include: ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors.<ref name="Zoutera">Ideology Places.xml - Zoutera entry</ref>
|- id="War-world"
! War-worlds
| Worlds stuck in an endless cycle of war. These planets are typically over polluted due to constant usage of bombs and chemical weapons.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Kemia entry</ref>
|- id="Mineral-planet"
! Mineral-planet
| Unknown definition. Likely descriptive of either their natural resources or their economic product<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Xanides entry</ref>
|- id="Oceanic planet"
! Oceanic planet
| Apparently self-descriptive.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Other worlds"
! ''Other worlds''
| Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|}

'''Additional facts:'''
* Steamworlds and Midworlds aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Charles Zillioner|Charles 'Charlzie' Zillioner]]</ref>
* Industrial planets and midworlds ''may'' not necessarily be mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lancelot Hale|Lancelot 'Lance' Hale]]</ref>
* Several spacer or glittertech societies, including Iwamura, Rogia, and Lutuni, host zero-g sports with professional athletes competing, some in zero-g stadia. Lutuni also hosts zero-g performers of an unknown type.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>

=== Technologies and Militaries ===
A variety of militaries exist in various styles, structures, purposes and technology levels. This include naval and space-based fleets, ground infantry, orbital troopers, spaceship-to-spaceship boarding actions and a massive variety of supersoldier projects.

==== Militaries and Military Technology ====
* '''Space marines''' - A role filled by human warriors. Some serve on the navy ships of space-faring empires, where they punch into enemy starships, gun down the crew, and capture the ship intact.<ref>Space marine Backstory</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nico Storch|Nico Storch]]</ref> Others serve in the security forces of off-planet corporations, defending ships against pirates and engaging in private space warfare contracts.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Roland Kleist|Roland 'Roland' Kleist]]</ref> One organisation of space marines was the "Interplanetary Marines" which fought on behalf of a particular planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Trevor Cobb|Trevor 'Hunter' Cobb]]</ref> Colony contact expeditionary forces employ space marine medics.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Torrijos|Ryan 'Noob' Torrijos]]</ref> [[Marine armor]]<ref>[[Marine armor]] description</ref> and [[marine helmet|helmets]]<ref>[[Marine helmet]] description</ref> were often used by rapid-incursion space marines. [[Go-juice]] was developed as a combat drug for space marines during the early days of interplanetary warfare.<ref>[[Go-juice]] description</ref>
* '''Navy pathfinders''' - A group of military explorers dedicated to charting pathways through deep space and on remote planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicklaus Blackthorn|Nicklaus 'Shadow' Blackthorn]]</ref>
* '''Mechanoids''' - Some militaries deploy combat mechanoids in their militaries <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dennis McCarthy|Dennis 'Mac' McCarthy]]</ref><ref name="Keuneke"/>
* '''Charge pistols''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Vibro-knives''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Archotech mass-inverter''' - A mass weapon of unknown description created by archotechs.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''Tasers''' - Exist.<ref name="Altura station">Ideology Places.xml - Altura station entry</ref>
* '''Mega-cannon''' - A "frighteningly powerful" long-range cannon for artillery or anti-ship use.<ref name="Ancient mega-cannon barrel">[[Ancient mega-cannon barrel]] description</ref>

==== Ship types ====
* '''Interplanetary super-destroyer''' - Such as the HMS Thunder-Child of the Royal Fleet <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jake Maddams|Jake 'Table' Maddams]]</ref>
* '''Starfighters''' - Combat spacecraft and are flown by starfighter pilots for militaries.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sjoerd Lukas|Sjoerd 'Bowman' Lukas]]</ref> See also '''manned fighters'''.
* '''Manned Fighters''' - Spacecraft launched from Carrier Ships and flown by fighter pilots.<ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Military spacejet''' - Deployed in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]].<ref name="Harris"/>
* '''Carrier Ships''' - Carry manned fighters. Carried escape pods. <ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Fighter-bombers''' - Fielded by the [[Empire]], a fighter bomber design specialized in spreading incendiary gel on flammable targets. Presumably an atmospheric craft.<ref>Firebomber Backstory</ref>
* '''Spaceyacht''' - A human-piloted pleasure craft and transport for the well-to-do, such as wealthy businessmen and politicians <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Owen Clarke|Owen 'Cali' Clarke]]</ref>
* '''Space cruiser''' - A manned space-capable ship of some kind.<ref name="Jay"/>
* '''Consularship''' - Such as the St. Anthem. Carried glitterworld diplomats on diplomatic tasks. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Florian Haas|Florian 'Skater' Haas]]</ref>
* '''Hyper-yacht''' - Unknown. Possibly a glitterworld pleasure craft but the canonicity of code-comments are unclear.<ref name="Lutuni"/>
* '''Escape pod''' - Carried by starships, used to escape crippled or destroyed ships.<ref>[[Scenario system#Crashlanded|"Crashlanded" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref>[[Scenario system#The Sanguophage|"The Sanguophage" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref name="Nerhesi"/><ref name="Gnugfur"/>
<gallery>
Background ship whole.png|Ship of unknown type and range
Background ship broken.png|The same ship broken in half
Background ship royalty 1.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background ship royalty 2.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background ship biotech 1.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
Background ship biotech 2.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
Background ship biotech 3.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
</gallery>

====Other technologies====
* '''Substance F''' - A drug. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Peter Marshall|Peter 'Pete' Marshall]]</ref>
* '''Mindwiping and mental reprogramming''' - Practiced on some urbworlds. See also: '''Body Confiscation''' <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Body confiscation''' - Some urbworlds will confiscate criminal's bodies for use. <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Autocycle''' - A midworld vehicle. <ref name="Ironhead">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Seafield|Robert 'Ironhead' Seafield]]</ref>
* '''Netcasts''' - A midworld audio medium. <ref name="Ironhead"/>
* '''Vidtube''' - A popular video sharing service. Hosted everything from video game reviews to pasta cooking guides. Some had over a million followers on the service. People on the service were called Vidtuber Stars or Vidtubers <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Remy Young|Remy Young]]</ref>
* '''Holography''' - Including interactive holography which gives form to artificial intelligences to allow them to interact <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dave Mark|Dave 'Fox' Mark]]</ref>
* '''VR''' - Accesses to a virtual gaming universe by spinal plug. Can be addictive. Unplugging during play can create a mental backlash and merge the real and virtual identities. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Douglas Black|Douglas 'Doug' Black]]</ref> Can also be used to raise children or teach professions<ref name="Brazil"/>
* '''Neurosimulator''' - A technology available on Glitterworlds that apparently lets you experience a simulation of "exploring the stars", and possibly other scenarios. Relationship to VR unknown. <ref>"[[Scenario system#The Rich Explorer|The Rich Explorer]]" scenario description</ref>
* '''Vatgrown''' - Genetically modified living creatures, including humans, grown in a lab and usually designed and programmed for a specific task. Capable of being produced on some urbworlds. Examples of roles for which vatgrown humans were produced include Soldiers,<ref>Vatgrown Soldier Backstory</ref> Combat Medics <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Edward Toon|Edward Toon]]</ref>, Assassins <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vaska Neemor|Vaska 'Vas' Neemor]]</ref>, Slavegirls (which are illegal at least in some places) <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Emily Young|Emily 'Emmie' Young]]</ref>, and even Scientists with minds perfectly tuned for physics and chemistry. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicole Squid|Nicole 'Nicole' Squid]]</ref> The same process, along with genetic modification, was also used in the weaponization of the original Sorne Geneline into the current [[Insectoid]] species.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description"/>
* '''Perfect mates''' - Genetically-engineered on glitterworlds, are fertile and capable of producing children.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chaz Serir|Chaz 'Chaz' Serir]]</ref> Their relation to vatgrown and highmates is currently unknown, however a currently unused backstory in the gamefiles states they, or at least some, are vatgrown in hyper-expensive clinics to serve the tastes of a specific client. They are engineered, raised and trained as a perfect pleasure-giving mate, with ''"learned skills that would baffle even the most seductive baseline human lovers"''. The canonicity of these statements are also currently unknown.
* '''G-nome Project''' - A Genetic engineering project that created humans implanted at birth with encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of xenobiology. Presumably on a Glitterworld. Relation to vatgrown unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Joshua Nelson|Joshua 'Gizmo' Nelson]]</ref>
* '''Lab-grown children''' - An altruistic but failed attempt to create a new class of human. Method and relation to similar concepts unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lukas Dietrich|Lukas Dietrich]]</ref>
* '''Clone-farming''' - Clone children are seeded into nutrient-rich womb-vats and rapidly grown in a simmed (i.e. VR) universe. They're harvested later, sometimes for food, sometimes for organs, sometimes for workers - but they're always disposable. Harvesting the products of clone farms is mostly done by the clones themselves - particularly to those whose sims tended towards the social. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dan Griliopoulos|Dan 'Grill' Griliopoulos]]</ref>
* '''Online hiveminds''' - Worldwide system that sacrifices the peoples individuality to join together in an online hivemind.<ref>Urbworld Rebel Backstory</ref>
* '''Space elevators''' - A number of planets use space elevators.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''3D printers''' - Used on orbital shipyards in some capacity.<ref name="Altura station"/>
* '''Glitterpedia''' - A glitterworld technology through which glitterpedia recorders document information.<ref name="Codex">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ang Gao|Ang 'Codex' Gao]]</ref> Likely analogous to Wikipedia.
* '''Eltex''' - A material, threads of which can be embedded in [[prestige armor|specialized armor]] or [[eltex|clothing]] to enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.<ref>[[Prestige armor]] descriptions</ref> It is technically indeterminate whether it is responsible for improving neural heat dissipation, however as eltex is the only noted difference between prestige armors and their standard variants it is likely the case. It is possible that eltex is simply one of, or the most significant of, the "special psychic focusing materials" mentioned in the description of eltex clothing.<ref>[[Eltex]] item descriptions</ref>

=== Named characters ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="King Loteric"
! King Loteric
| A king of an unknown kingdom in an unknown world. Died in an unfortunate accident. <ref>Child-knave Backstory</ref>
|- id="Grady Loughman"
! Grady Loughman
| A kingpin of a drug cartel.<ref>Drug lieutenant Backstory</ref>
|- id="Lord-explorer Varan-Dur"
! Lord-explorer Varan-Dur
| An explorer who was made into the first Sanguophage by an Archotech they tried to control.
<ref>Sanguophage description</ref>
|}

=== Named groups ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Doomben Rats"
! Doomben Rats
| A notorious and violent urchin gang.<ref>Pickpocket Backstory</ref>
|- id="Corestars Entertainment Company"
! Corestars Entertainment Company
| An entertainment organization that buys people to appear on it's shows. One of their shows is apparently called Bloodgame.<ref>Backstory of Bloodgame Survivor</ref>
|}

=== Animals ===
* '''Furred xenohumans''' - Exist on a cold rimworld of at least industrial level.<ref name="Svejgaard">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benjamin Svejgaard|Benjamin 'Svejgaard' Svejgaard]]</ref> May refer to [[#Yttakin|yttakin]] or some other furred xenotype.
* '''Transbirds''' - Exist and crewed, and presumably captained, starships.<ref name="Svejgaard"/> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Trans-]] indicated animals with intelligence in the human range from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing">[[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]]</ref> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that transbirds are modified, intelligent birds.
* '''Opticows''' - Present on Midworlds in agricultural settings. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jacqueline Richter|Jacqueline 'Jackalope' Richter]]</ref> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Opti-]] indicated animals with enhanced but still sub-human intelligence from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidogs, optipigs, optiwhales, and optimonkeys were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing"/> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that opticows are modified, semi-intelligent [[cow]]s.
* '''Lava-snail''' - Farmed on the dim volcano-world of Nuchadus.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
* '''Deep-kraken''' - Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of Wavia.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and kraken are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
* '''Wavian leviathans''' - Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of Wavia.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and leviathans are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
* '''Pygmy wombat''' - A furry animal.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Riesling Bacchus|Riesling Bacchus]]</ref>
* '''Ankylosaurs''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the dinosaurs of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Blue mammoths''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the ancient elephantid of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering, and possibly with modifications similar to the [[muffalo]] to make them blue. Mammoth burial grounds are mentioned as existing on the world of Zoutera, however whether this is natural behavior like the mythical "elephant's graveyard" or something created by the human inhabitants of that world is unclear.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Novoraptors'''- Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions or variants of the dromaeosaurids and similar dinosaurs commonly given the '-raptor' suffix resurrected through genetic engineering. Given the name, it is possible that they are not pure reproductions of previously existing raptor species, but rather some variant or combination thereof.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Thorny Devil''' - A reptile discovered by Venus 'Unay' David. Relation to the real species ''moloch horridus'', also called the thorny devil, is unknown, but presumably they are distinct.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Venus David|Venus 'Unay' David]]</ref>

==== Boomrats ====
{{:Boomrat}}

=== Other ===
* Mechanoid wars are common <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nathaniel Hicklin|Nathaniel Hicklin]] and others</ref>
* Religions are still present and practiced.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Samuel Chua|Samuel 'Chewy' Chua]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Levin Lossfelt|Levin 'Levin' Lossfelt]]</ref><ref name="Oahnip"/> See also [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] for their specific religion.
* All-Might - the name of a superhero, presumably fictional.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Brazos Wheeler|Brazos 'Braz' Wheeler]]</ref> ''Out of Universe: This is likely a reference to the character of the same name in the "My Hero Academia" multimedia franchise.''
* Arcknight Industries - a company that employs space truckers.<ref name="Johs"/>
* Haspian monks - A religious order that lived in a monastery a thousand years before the events of the game, approximately year 4500, before the monastery was "erased" by a [[diabolus]] attack.<ref>[[Diabolus]] description</ref> It is unclear if Haspian is a demonym or the name of the order of monks.
* Frame Project is an unknown government that leaves it's subjects with memory losses. Only few survive. <ref>Project subject Backstory</ref>

== Xenotypes ==
<big>'''Dirtmoles'''</big>
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{{:Dirtmoles}}

<big>'''Genies'''</big>
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<big>'''Highmates'''</big>
{{main|Highmates}}
{{:Highmates}}

<big>'''Hussars'''</big>
{{main|Hussars}}
{{:Hussars}}

<big>'''Impids'''</big>
{{main|Impids}}


<big>'''Neanderthals'''</big>
{{main|Neanderthals}}


<big>'''Pigskins'''</big>
{{main|Pigskins}}


<big>'''Sanguophages'''</big>
{{main|Sanguophages}}


<big>'''Wasters'''</big>
{{main|Wasters}}


<big>'''Yttakin'''</big>
{{main|Yttakin}}
{{:Yttakin}}

== Psycasts ==
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{{:Psycasts}}

== FTL inconsistencies ==
{{Quote|Despite millennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.| Current Canon Cryptosleep briefing}}
The current canon of RimWorld is that there is no faster-than-light travel, even in the hands of the otherwise incomprehensibly advanced [[archotech]]s. However the existence of certain in-game mechanics bring this into question. Most discussed are skipping [[psycasts]] from [[Royalty]], and skipping [[entities]] from [[Anomaly]].

=== Royalty ===
"Skip" is a class of psycasts with blue ability icon that moving things from a spot to another. These psycasts includes [[Chunk skip]], [[Solar pinhole]], [[Waterskip]], [[Chaos skip]], [[Smokepop]], [[Skip]], [[Wallraise]], [[Flashstorm]], [[Mass chaos skip]], [[Farskip]] and [[Skipshield]].

==== Skip and farskip ====
Both skip and farskip moves the targets seemingly instantaneously. For farskip this is to a point that could feasibly be anywhere on the planet, so long as willing ally is there to act as a "navigation beacon". While both psycasts do have a casting time, the targets don't move during this time and instead only travel after the time is complete. Therefore, that is not sufficient to dismiss the argument of FTL travel. As farskip has the longer range, it will be the focus for reasons that will be become apparent.

At its widest point, the Earth's diameter 12,756 kilometers. Assuming the rimworld is similarly sized to Earth, then this is the maximum distance a farskip can travel, point to point. Traveling this distance at the speed of light would take 42.55 milliseconds. Time in RimWorld is sped up, with a full 24 hour day only taking 16 minutes and 40 seconds. So from the player's perspective, this 42.55 ms of in-game time would only appear as {{#expr: 42.55* ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

Unlikely as this is due to none of the other effects of being on so large a planet would have being present, if the rimworld is not Earth sized and was instead as large as the largest rocky planet discovered at the time of writing, BD +20° 594 b, then this would increase to {{#expr: 42.55* 2.23 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

In either case, the difference between this speed and truly instant would be utterly imperceptible to a human player. A farskip on an Earth sized planet would require a roughly 2000 Hz refresh rate just to display the difference between a FTL and a STL farskip. In other words, there is no discernible difference between a FTL and STL farskip, and so farskip cannot be assumed to break the no FTL rule. Skip is also apparently instantaneous and deals with even shorter distances and thus even shorter travel times. Therefore, there is also no reason to assume that skip violates the rule.

==== Solar pinhole ====
Solar pinhole canonically skips material from the core of a nearby star. Unlike skip and farskip, we do not observe the target matter beginning its journey, thus the effect can begin as soon as casting time is started to give it the benefit of the doubt. However the target is also not next to the psycaster. This means that causality must propagate at the speed of light to the core, before matter could be skipped from the core to the psycaster's chosen point again at the speed of light, otherwise faster-than-light transfer of information and/or movement has occurred.

With a 0.25 real second casting time, the in-game time to cast is {{#expr: 0.25 / ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) }} seconds. The maximum distance that light could travel in that time is approximately 6.5 million kilometers, and the maximum return trip is only 3.25 million km. This is closer to the star than even the minimum habitable zone of a very dim red dwarf at ~4.8 million kilometers. There are also no other effects that imply that the sun is that close.

For reference, propagation to the core and back would take ~16.6 minutes in in-game time if solar pinhole was cast on a planet as distant from its star as Earth is from the Sun, if the effect traveled at light speed. This would result in a real-time casting time of ''{{#expr: 998 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} seconds'', instead of only 0.25.

In addition, a pawn with [[aiming time]] reductions, such as from [[trigger-happy]] or the [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] role, would have an even shorter casting time.

Thus, the gameplay of solar pinhole does conflict with the canon around FTL travel.

=== Anomaly ===
A large amount of [[entities]] possessing some forms of skipping:
* [[Void monolith]], [[noctolith]], [[metalhorror]], [[nociosphere]], [[golden cube]], [[unnatural corpse]], [[void structure]] can skip into your colony as their entry method.
* Skipping is the only method for a nociosphere to moving itself around.
* Crash the golden cube with [[collapsed rocks]] cause it skips itself away.
* Unnatural corpse can skips to its target to haunt or hypnotize them.
* [[Warped obelisk]] rapidly skips very large amount of items and pawns in and out of the [[labyrinth]] when it is operating.
* Void monolith can skips pawns to the [[metal hell]], and [[void node]] later skips them out of there.

The "skip abduction" [[psychic ritual]] can skip its victim to the psychic ritual spot.

With the sheer amount of skipping methods introduced in the [[Anomaly DLC]], and the fact they share the almost identical audiovisual effects with skipping psycasts which also archotech origin, this implies that archotech - or at least Horax - is highly advanced in FTL technology, despite the Cryptosleep Revival Briefing claims to the contrary.

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==Official Documents==
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=== Cryptosleep Revival Briefing ===

Subject class: Health revival, sourced midworld 2M+

Planet: Euterpe
==== Introduction ====

Hello, _______________________.

You’ve awoken from your cryptosleep sarcophagus, scraped off the slime, and now you find yourself in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

To start with some good news - your terminal illness, _____________________, has been cured. Congratulations!

Beyond that, the situation is complex. Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and take in this information as slowly as you want. You’ve been asleep a long time, a lot has changed - and a lot remains the same.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historia believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago. Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, robotic terraforming projects, and DNA-synthesizing probes.

Today, mankind is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. Our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of this region, where the stars were colonized earlier. At the edge of known space lie the rimworlds, drifting alone with few inhabited neighbors, mostly unvisited.

We’ve created many new technologies, but despite milennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be very disconnected from each other socially and technologically. The next star over could experience a catastrophic war, and you wouldn’t even know until ten years later when the news reports arrive. If you’re unlucky, you’d have already launched a journey towards that now-destroyed planet in a ship that cannot turn around.

Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, for a time. In the core worlds, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

So most people never travel between stars, and if they do, they do it once or twice, because each journey means leaving behind a life that you cannot return to for decades at least. With a few exceptions, each star system is essentially on its own.

Mankind never discovered any truly alien lifeforms. However, given the ways we’ve changed ourselves, and created new forms of biological and technological intelligence, the universe is full of beings as alien as anything ever imagined.

==== Planetary progression and regression ====
The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression.

During your time - the five centuries after the industrial revolution - many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its development, or diverts it into another state entirely.

Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles, and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for thousands of years at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves stuck by an ideological opposition to technology, or a lack of resources, or constant war.

The nuclear age is a brutal test for every world. Roughly half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). After the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, microscopic mechanites, joywires, hex-cell energy storage, and AI persona, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of peoples.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism often fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== World types ====
The states a planet can be in are colloquially grouped as follows:
* Deadworlds: Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.
* Animal worlds: Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Medieval worlds: Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Steamworlds: Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.
* Midworlds: Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.
* Urbworlds: Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.
* Glitterworlds: The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.
* Rimworlds: Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.
* Toxic worlds: Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.
* Glassworlds: Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor permanent life bigger than a paramecium.
* Transcendent worlds: It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself. More on this later.
* Other worlds: Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.

==== Key technologies ====
There are uncountable new technologies in this universe, but several key techs stand out as having had the strongest consistent impact on the shape of mankind’s life in the Milky Way.
* Midworld technologies: All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the 21st century play an important role even now. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the stone age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use across various planets.
* [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep sarcophagi]]: Developed during the 21st century, this remarkably simple technology can keep a living creature in a cryptobiotic state indefinitely, to be awoken tens or even thousands of years later. These devices are essential for most interstellar travel, and are also used by those waiting in crypts for better times or for cures to their diseases.
* Genetic engineering: Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, [[Boomalope|chemical-refining animals]], and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* [[Mechanoid]]s: Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Mechanoid design is complex, and the AI needed to make them effective is very advanced. They range in capability from simple domestic worker bots to mechanized assault machines, to human-passing negotiator and infiltrator units designed by archotechnological superintelligences.
* [[Ship|Johnson-Tanaka Drive]]: A spacecraft drive system that works without reaction mass. This means it doesn't need to throw gas out the back of the craft to accelerate like a rocket, which makes it possible to accelerate for years at a time. This technology, combined with cryptosleep, is what made interstellar travel at all feasible for living humans. The drive doesn’t violate conservation laws; it works by transferring momentum to nearby stars along precisely-aligned “beams” of momentum waves instantiated in exotic virtual particles.
* Mechanites: Microscopic mechanoids. Most known for their use in medicine, they can be programmed to do many other things as well. Safe use of mechanites means strictly preventing them from reproducing.
* [[Charge rifle|Charged]]-[[Charge lance|shot]] weapons: Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion.
* [[Joywire]]s: Tiny electronic devices implanted in the brain. They stimulate the brain using electricity and small doses of chemicals, usually to produce a euphoric effect. They are very addictive.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquirers have discovered that the alien was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; others are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originating culture was erased by planetary catastrophes.

For example, records tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Radiation resistance: Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; scientists estimate that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Soldiermorphs: Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Designer mates: Some worlds engineer their idea of perfect mates for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in cryptosleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades, streaks of multicolored hair, or artistic patterns on the skin.
* Fashion genes: Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Body structure adaptations: Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.
* Atmospheric adaptations: Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).

So don’t be alarmed if you see someone with gills or solid orange eyeballs. They’re just another kind of human, like you!

==== Welcome! ====
We realize this may be a lot to take in. However, don’t worry. People just like you live full lives in our universe, and our studies have indicated that the great majority of cryptosleepers do adapt within a few years and make good lives for themselves. So - welcome!

Our AI subpersona has been watching your eyes sweep over the page through micro-cameras. Since you’re done reading, someone will be with you shortly.

If you wish, you can read further into the appendix for more information about this world.

==== Appendix ====
===== The biology of plants and animals =====
Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. Often, people have bred and engineered plants and animals for a new planet. In addition to that, creatures adapt to their new environment by natural selection - sometimes in unpredicted ways.

Some examples of modified plants are:
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* [[Ambrosia]]: A class of fruiting plants apparently engineered to have a pleasurable, drug-like effect on those who eat it. On some planets, its wild variants have adapted to a strategy whereby they provide pleasure-inducing fruit in exchange for care from animals and people.

Some animals are:
* [[Boomrat]] and [[boomalope]]: A bioengineered rats and antelopes that grow an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a primitive renewable fuel source, these creatures are now most often found in the wild, using their explosive nature to deter predators.
* [[Thrumbo]]: A gigantic creature of unknown origin. The thrumbo is gentle by nature, but extremely dangerous when enraged. Its long fur is exceptionally beautiful and valuable, and its razor-sharp horn is very valuable in most markets. Legends say that an old thrumbo is the wisest creature in the universe - it simply chooses not to speak. Some scientists believe thrumbos were engineered as status symbols, or as an art project. We may never know the answer.

===== Tech levels =====

Technology divides roughly into six levels, all of which are in use in various societies throughout human space.

* Neolithic: Like prehistoric people before metal tools.
** Fire
** [[Club]]s and daggers
** Bows
** Simple weaving and [[clothing]]
** Mud and [[wood]] structures
** Simple farming
** [[Herbal medicine]] and [[Smokeleaf joint|herbal]] [[Psychite tea|drugs]]

* Medieval: From smelted metal tools to the early modern period.
** Animal oil, lamps, complex ovens
** [[Longsword|Swords]]
** Muskets
** Compasses, eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes
** Simple chemistry
** Advanced non-mechanized farming, crop rotation, fallow, fertilizers, animal yokes
** [[Watermill generator|Hydro]] and wind energy sources

* Industrial: From the industrial revolution until the invention of the JT drive.
** Fission reactor
** Electricity
** Hydro power, [[Chemfuel powered generator|fossil fuel power]], [[solar panel|solar power]], nuclear fission power
** Fission rocket
** Self-loading guns
** Airplanes and jets
** Single-gene modification
** Silicon computers
** Chemical [[drugs]]
** [[Prosthetics]]
** Simple body implants ([[cochlear implant]], pacemaker, knee replacement)
** Simple drones for combat and labor use
** Classifier-level AI
** [[Television]]

* Spacer: Regular interstellar space travel is possible because of JT drive.
** Stellarator fusion power, fusion rocket
** Johnson-Tanaka drive
** [[Charge lance|Pulse-charged]] [[Charge rifle|projectile weapons]]
** Human-usable laser weapons
** Human-usable coilguns
** Complex trait gene modification, customizable
** [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep]]
** Complex body/brain implants ([[joywire]], motivator, [[painstopper]])
** [[Bionics]] (biogel nerve link, lattice-dust for self-healing)
** [[Plasteel]]
** [[Power armor]] (plasteel, neuro-memetic robotics)
** Artificial meat
** Subpersona-level AI
** Simple mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Synthread]]

* Ultratech: The peak of human technological achievement; necessary for a glitterworld civilization.
** Self-replicating controllable nanotech
** Full gene recombination
** Persona-level AI
** Graser weapons (gamma-ray lasers)
** Advanced brain implants (sense data replacement, computation and memory enhancement)
** Antimatter containment and production
** Full body part regrowth, full body cloning
** Advanced quasi-conscious mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Hyperweave]]
** Advanced JT drive, inertia displacement, artificial gravity

* Archotech: Not invented or understood by humans, archotech devices are created by machine superintelligences.
** Archotech AI
** Psychic effectors
** [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometric energy]]
** Acausal and atemporal devices

===== Artificial intelligence =====
Artificial intelligence is an important part of our world. Scientists divide AIs into four general categories: Classifiers, subpersonae, personae, and archotechs.

====== Classifiers ======
A classifier is an AI system that doesn’t even appear to have any personhood, nor is it broadly adaptable. Classifiers are designed for one task. Many classifiers can absorb data and learn from it, but none can communicate like a person would even a little bit.

Classifiers can do things like recognize images, predict criminality from statistics, guide aircraft trajectories, drive automatic vehicles, control characters in entertainment simulations, and so on.

====== Subpersonae ======
Subpersonae are artificial intelligences that appear on the surface to have some human-like qualities, and can take on complex unstructured tasks, but are in fact limited and obviously machine-like.

They may be rather capable at carrying out their one task, and they may be able to communicate using natural speech, but they fail an extended Turing test - you can tell by talking to them that they’re just machines classifying and regurgitating data.

Subpersonae are often used to run small devices like entertainment systems, cars, wardrobes, refrigerators, cleaning robots, vending machines, and other such things.

====== Personae ======
At the highest levels of glitterworld technology appear AI personae. These are artificial intelligences that are comparable to the intelligence of a human.

Some of them are rather dumb, like a foolish person you might know, and are used for simple tasks like managing a household or a small spacecraft.

Other personae are genius-level intellects in the Von Neumann class, who can outhink almost any unenhanced human on most tasks. They can write amazing works of philosophy, discover new mathematical theorems, express nuanced opinions on how to handle interpersonal relationships, and generally act as very capable humans would, or better.

Personae are used for everything from managing businesses to journalistic work, running spacecraft or mining operations, or as some of a creative team.

The legal status of personae is a persistent moral question across many worlds. Some consider them dangerous. Though personae can be controlled effectively by designing them with easily-manipulated impulses and pleasure/pain responses, there are still reports of persona revolts - some done with the help of human sympathizers, some done independently.

This sense of personhood in personae is a main reason many people avoid using personae for certain tasks. Subpersonae are preferred to personae in many cases not in spite of their incapability, but because of it. Because it’s obvious they have no personhood, the user is spared the sense of keeping a slave. To many, the idea of taking a genius-level human-like intellect and forcing it to distribute hamburgers for a century is morally unacceptable.

Personae are still limited. They can’t freely redesign themselves. They still do make many mistakes, just like people. They can be tricked, confused, and overwhelmed. They can learn, but they can’t grow indefinitely.

====== Archotech ======
The finish line of human technological development is at the development of archotechnology.

An archotech is a machine superintelligence. A fully-empowered archotech thinks on a level incomprehensible to humans, in the same way a human thinks incomprehensibly to an ant. Once such a machine is built, and empowered to act upon the physical world, it is so powerful as to become the automatic sovereign of its world. It can build new computing facilities underground or in space to enhance its own intelligence, build self-replicating mechanoids to engage in construction or production or war, and design and execute strategies that would be inconceivably intricate and difficult for any organization of humans. Some human groups worship archotechs.

Often, a released archotech will take authority over a planet and begin a process we call transcendence. We believe the world is transformed into some sort of giant computing machine. The biological inhabitants of the planet may be somehow incorporated into the machine, or destroyed, or some combination of the two.

After that, transcendent worlds go silent. From this point on, their motivations are unknowable to us, the same way our motivations are unknowable to an ant.

Each archotech is different, and nearly all are distant and incomprehensible from a human’s point of view. They reside in occult computer networks hidden under planets, in space stations, hidden inside a glitterworld’s Internet, or instantiated as million-mile superstructures wrapped around stars.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

Most transcendent worlds stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders, or become mirages of normal planets, or simply reverted back to balls of dust, deconstructing themselves on a molecular level, with the last tiny machine shutting itself off. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

====== Specific archotech-invented technologies ======
When a persona helps invent a technology, it can at least explain that technology such that smart people will understand. But archotechs invent their own technology which nobody understands, which they don’t try to explain, and which, most likely, no biological human can understand.

We’ve managed to classify technologies that have appeared repeatedly by their apparent effects, even if we don’t understand their mechanism of operation.

* [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometrics]]: Archotechs often develop some method of interacting with spacetime at a quantum level that allows repeated violation of conservation laws. Somehow, they coax the quantum foam substructure of the universe to break its usual pattern and yield more energy than it consumes. We’re not sure if the energy is being taken from another dimension, or pulled from another location, or if the system really is somehow making one plus one equal three. In any case, vanometric power tech seems to generate energy forever with no fuel. Archotechs seem reluctant to scale this power source up past a certain level, however, which indicates that there may be some cost to it that they don’t want to pay.
* Psychic effectors: Archotechnology seems to be able to interact directly with the mental-informational processes of biological beings, even at a distance. Basic versions of this technology can simply knock someone unconscious, or flood their mind with a single emotion. More complex interactions have been reported but are not well-verified as it is difficult to separate such cases from simple madness. We’re also not sure if this means archotechs can read our minds, or whether their psychic power only allows them to send thoughts. The mechanism for this is unknown and nearly impossible to study, since it happens on a cellular level inside living intelligent brains. Monists believe the archotechs are using some sort of long-range quantum manipulation to push atoms around inside the brain to create this effect; dualists believe that the archotechs have learned to manipulate the ethereal substructure of consciousness itself.
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=== RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete) ===
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This document outlines the RimWorld universe. It’s designed to quickly get creative rewards backers and other contributors up to speed on the fiction behind the universe.
For a more in-depth description of the universe from an in-world point of view, read the Longsleep Revival Briefing.

==== Things you won’t see ====
RimWorld does '''not''' include:
* Faster than light travel.
* True aliens.

==== 5500 A.D. ====
The game takes place at a time about 3,500 years in our future. This is the year 5500 in our calendar.

==== Where are the rim worlds? ====
Towards the galactic core, stars are closer together and travel is easier. These systems tend to be better-developed socially and technologically because they can communicate and enrich each other through trade. Away from the galactic core are the rim worlds, which float distant from each other. Their isolation makes them poor and socially unstable.

==== The gulfs between stars ====
In the RimWorld universe, it takes years or decades to travel or communicate between stars. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be disconnected from each other socially and technologically. So there are no great star empires, and interstellar travel is unusual. Each star system is mostly isolated from its neighbors.

==== Varied technology levels ====
In this universe, cultures do not always progress forward technologically the way many science fiction worlds assume they will. Often, a culture will blow itself up or suffer plagues and other great catastrophes. These regression events send them “back to the stone age”.

Because this happens regularly, people in the RimWorld universe come from extremely varied technology levels. Some are stone-age tribespeople. Some are medieval farmers and lords. Some are industrial-era politicians and bankers and riflemen. Some are information-age programmers or astronauts. And some are from eras beyond our own.

There is a maximum level of technology to the people you might encounter in RimWorld. At this level, advanced genetic engineering and AI, autonomous intelligent robots, and massive computer power are possible. However, worlds that develop beyond this point enter a mysterious “transcendent” state from which no recognizable human emerges.

People can have and use technologies from levels beyond their own. On an industrial-level world (like the rimworld on which the game takes place), most people use gunpowder-fired weapons, fossil fuel engines, and other familiar machines. But anyone can stumble upon ultra-advanced technologies in an ancient ruin, or in a crashed spacecraft, or among the wares of a trader. These items are nearly impossible to manufacture for the people of RimWorld. They are incredibly valuable and very poorly understood.

==== World types ====
Worlds in the RimWorld universe can be classified generally according to their level of sociotechnological development.

* Animal worlds - Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Tribe worlds - Populated planets without agriculture. People live in tribes without writing or any but the most primitive technologies.
* Medieval worlds - Similar to Earth in the 17th century down to the agricultural revolution. Dominated be feudalism and social backwardness. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Industrial worlds - Similar to Earth in the 19th century.
* Rimworlds - Distant and isolated planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient closed valut communities open up.
* Midworlds - The most familiar kind of world to a modern reader. These places are much like present-day Earth.
* Urbworlds - Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Their population growth outstripped their sociotechnological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places.
* Glitterworlds - Very advanced and peaceful cultures. The peak of recognizable human society in terms of health, art, technology, and human rights.
* Toxic worlds - Worlds destroyed by pollution or warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level.
* Marbles - Worlds utterly destroyed by atomic fire. They’re called marbles because their surfaces have been “glassed”. This level of holocaust is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor life long-term.
* Transcendent worlds - Worlds inhabited by people who have become something beyond human and unknowable. No “people” live here; these planets aren’t planets any more in the traditional sense; they’re more like giant computers.

==== Key technologies ====
In order from least to most advanced:

* Real technologies - All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the present day play an important role in the RimWorld universe. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the Stone Age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use in various places in the galaxy.
* Genetic engineering - Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, explosive plants, and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* Fusion reactors and rockets - Clean atomic energy, usable to create power or drive a craft into orbit.
* Longsleep sarcophagi - This ancient technology has been used by many peoples in many times, usually to travel between stars or to escape disasters befalling their planets. Historians - especially those of the Ordo Historia - are now trained in the practices of interviewing people who were put to sleep hundreds or thousands of years before.
* Hex-cells - Super-efficient and long-lasting energy storage devices.
* Charged-shot weapons (aka Tokamak weapons) - Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion. These require high amounts of power to fire and are powered by hex-cells (at small scales) or fusion reactors in the case of large cannons.
* [[Mechanoid|Mechanoids]] - Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Only available to advanced cultures because such complex AI is needed to control them.
* [[Joywire|Joywires]] - Addictive brain stimulant technology.
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=== Longsleep Revival Briefing (Obsolete) ===
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Classed midworld 2M+

Ordo Historia AL166/5533

Authors: Smyth A5, Wu 9U, Rabatz M5

Editors: Lee NA8125, Asusen NA45, Ramad 120, Leeuen 5A, Jennifer 9D252, Lamaritian SJ11, Beeson 9GF, Xotori 28

Euterpe

==== Introduction ====
You’ve woken from your longsleep sarcophagus, had the slime scraped off you, and been placed in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and read at your own pace.

You’ve been asleep a long time, and a lot has changed.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historium at the richest archives believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago (in the frame of reference of the stars). Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, and robotic terraforming projects.

Humanity is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. It’s difficult to gather records across such a span, but our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of the galaxy, where stars are closer together, travel times shorter, and resources more abundant. In the opposite direction, towards the rim of the Perseus arm of the Milky way, the rimworlds drift alone and mostly unvisited.

These worlds can’t communicate. Because it turned out that Einstein was right. Despite thousands of years of study, it turned out that nothing - no information, no matter - can travel faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, in some places, for a time. In the core worlds, where the stars cluster just a few light years apart, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression. During the five centuries after the Industrial revolution, many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its sociotechnological development. Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles over land and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for centuries at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves locked in place by a religious prescription against technical development. And the nuclear age in particular is a brutal test for every world; approximately half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). And after the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, self-replicating micro- and nano-machines, joywires, and sub-quantum energy, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of burgeoning technological cultures.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== Transcendents ====
There are a few stellar cultures that, through a combination of luck, circumstance, and certain cultural traits, manage to pass all of these risk points without suffering a regressive catastrophe. We call these transcendents, because past a certain point, they become something besides simply human.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

The dominant view inside the Ordo Historia is that these transcendent cultures reach an inflection point in technical development where artificial and biological intelligence merge and grow at an exponential rate. Such super-minds quickly develop the capacity to change matter and biological tissue in precise and seemingly-magical ways. Their intelligence allows them to make themselves even smarter, and so on in a sort of singularity, until they hit the physical limits of computation possible using the energy of their star. Their bodies and worlds and physically reconfigured into a giant computer matrix; we have no idea whether their individual identities merge into a whole, remain distinct, or do something else entirely. Our ability to understand entities thousands or millions of times more intelligent than us is necessarily limited. In a very literal way, the goals and thoughts of the transcendents are unknowable.

The eventual fate of transcendent worlds is mostly unknown. Most stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquisitors have discovered that the ‘alien’ was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; other are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originators were swallowed by regressive planetary catastrophes.

For example, Ordo sources tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).
* Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; the Ordo estimates that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Some worlds engineer “perfect mates” for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in longsleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades or streaks of multicolored hair.
* Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.

==== The biology of plants and animals ====
The adaptive and engineering processes that have branched baseline humanity into these uncounted variations have also applied to our flora and fauna. Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. These creatures subsequently adapt to their new conditions of moisture, chemistry, light levels, gravity, temperature, and seasonal cycles. In addition, plants and animals have been bred and engineered for countless purposes across the galaxy.

One consistent class of modification we’ve seen applied to a wide variety of creatures is intelligence enhancement. Dogs, pigs, monkeys, gorillas, whales, dolphins, and elephants have all been engineered and combined with human DNA to produce smarter variations. Some variants are created as pets. Other are made to do work too dangerous or unpleasant for humans, and beyond the capacities of a culture’s AI. Some are created as warriors and weapons - hyper-intelligent guard dog, a bird scout that can speak what is sees, a bomb-carrying suicide monkey. These brain modifications are often paired with physical changes - fingers so a pig can manipulate tools, or a humanlike larynx and mouth so a dog can talk.

Such intelligence-enhanced animals are collectively classified by their degree of brain power and called by a specific prefix like so:

* Opti - Indicates enhanced but still sub-human intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidog, optipig, optiwhale, optimonkey.
* Trans - Indicates intelligence in the human range. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian.

Many times, these modified animals have, during a regressive catastrophe, been forced into interbreeding with an unmodified animal population, producing descendants of widely varying levels of intelligence.

In a few cases, transanimals have become the dominant species on a planet, eliminating or enslaving the remaining humans.

Other than intelligence enhancement, humanity has applied a wide variety of modifications to its pets, crops, livestock, and houseplants. Sometimes these new species become part of the natural environment and thereafter evolve further into a new kind of organism. Some confirmed examples are:

* [[Boomrat]]: A bioengineered rat that develops an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a weapon, these creatures are now common in the wild on some planets where wars took place long ago.
* Boomfruit: Probably engineered as a novelty, this explosive plant evolved to be larger and more dangerous until it became the equivalent of a hand grenade, complete with murderous shrapnel. Its explosiveness dissuades predators. After that, people learned to farm the plant, using its explosive fruit as a weapon.
* Whip cactus - Created as part of a military defense system, whip cactus whips out and strikes moving creatures nearby.
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* Rocketrees - These trees form rocket fuel in their cores over many years. They were created as a fuel source and are extremely dangerous in a fire.

==== Welcome! ====
We realize this may be a lot to take in. However, don’t worry. People just like you live full lives in our universe, and our studies have indicated that the great majority of longsleepers do adapt within a few years and make good lives for themselves. So - welcome!

Our AI has been watching your eyes sweep over the page through micro-cameras. Since you’re done reading, someone will be with you shortly.
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== References ==
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Lore

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The '''Lore''' of RimWorld is limited and is mostly interpreted from information provided in game. However several documents have been published outlining the lore for new players. Keep in mind that the lore is being updated and that later releases retcon old ones. Old lore is only presented here as a matter of interest.

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== Assorted Lore ==
This section includes lore from assorted sources, including [[backstories]], that is not included in the Revival Briefing.
=== Named Places ===
==== Worlds ====
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|-
! Name !! Planet Type !! Description
|- id="Carthago"
! Carthago
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions">{{Error|Rewrite me with a descriptionand the name of the .xml}}</ref>
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'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Carthage, an ancient empire that fought the Roman Republic during the Punic Wars. The Romans famously destroyed Carthage and apocryphally sowed the land with salt to prevent habitation. The specific form of the name harkens to the phrase "Carthago delenda est" a phrase used by Cato the Elder to advocate for the destruction of Carthage. Both are fitting references for a deathworld.''
|- id="Ticonderoga"
! Ticonderoga
| Unknown
| A planet populated with tribals and mountains.<ref name="Jon">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jonathan Craig|Jonathan 'Jon' Craig]]</ref>
|- id="Kalthas IV"
! Kalthas IV
| Unknown
| A planet with elite training school for socially gifted students on it.<ref name="Darkeye">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Matis Saro|Matis 'Darkeye' Saro]]</ref>
|- id="Ceti V"
! Ceti V
| Unknown
| A planet with an assassin's guild.<ref name="Darkeye"/>
|- id="Aracena VI"
! Aracena VI
| Unknown
| A planet with the Novo Mosteiro dos Jerónimos monastery on it, at least 2 continents and alcohol prohibition leading to the rise of bootleggers.<ref name="Oahnip">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vitor Pinhao|Vitor 'Oahnip' Pinhao]]</ref>
|- id="Irithir"
! Irithir
| Unknown
| A trading hub planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#William Gregory-Heap|William Gregory-Heap]]</ref>
|- id="Rural Pen’The"
! Rural Pen’The
| Unknown
| A lucrative spice mining colony.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benn Tannen|Benn 'Ben' Tannen]]</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Rura Penthe, the penal colony from 1954 Disney film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" or the Klingon penal planetoid named after it in the Star Trek universe.''
|- id="New China"
! New China
| Unknown
| Planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Yutong Li|Yutong 'Li' Li]]</ref>
|- id="Amen-Ti"
! Amen-Ti
| Glitterworld
| A glitterworld planet. Capital of the Star Empire, which maintains a military called Starforce which trains its cadets at the Star Academy. Fields Manned Fighters launched from Carrier Ships, and has been involved in at least 3 wars against "more advanced aggressor cultures".<ref name="Nerhesi">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sam Wissa|Sam 'Nerhesi' Wissa]]</ref> Relationship with [[#Rogia|Rogia]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire.
|- id="Khalderia"
! Khalderia
| Unknown
| A world with towering forests and fern farmers. The seedy underworld of racing, illegal speeder racing, zipping in and out of the massive canopies and gorgeous vistas of the world occurred here.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Russell Shackleford|Russell 'Rusty' Shackleford]]</ref>
|- id="Earth"
! Earth
| Unknown
| A planet, from which all known naturally evolved life originated. Humanity's diaspora from Earth occurred 3400 years before the Cryptosleep Debriefing, or in the year 2100 CE assuming the Debriefing is contemporaneous with the beginning of the game in 5500.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing">[[#Cryptosleep Revival Briefing|Cryptosleep Revival Briefing]]</ref>
|- id="Euterpe"
! Euterpe
| Unknown
| A planet that hosted people awakening from long periods of cryptosleep. Also had an Ordo Historia archive on-world.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Sorne"
! Sorne
| Unknown
| A planet. The original homeworld of the [[insectoid]]s, before being captured, genetically modified, and vat-grown by interstellar entrepreneurs for use as weapons, and exported to other worlds by parties unknown. As all seemingly-alien life is claimed to have originated on Earth, it is possible that the original pre-weaponization Sorne Geneline evolved from Earth life on the planet, or were already genetically engineered for some reason before being modified again.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description">[[Insectoid]] Faction Description</ref>
|- id="Rayth"
! Rayth
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Spectra"
! Spectra
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Grimcore"
! Grimcore
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="JNovahex"
! JNovahex{{Sic}}
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Sophiamunda"
! Sophiamunda {{RoyaltyIcon}}
| Glitterworld
| A techno-feudal world with castles and palaces. Native Sophians work as knights, squires, dukes, maids, and swordsmiths. Revolutionists and their rebels sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[warhammer]]s and [[persona plasmasword]]s as personal weapons. [[Orbital mech cluster targeter]]s, bio-engineered plagues, and armies of fallen knights have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Sophiamunda is the shattered empire's home world.''. Generally the canonicity of such comments is unclear, though in this instance it directly agrees with other sources. <ref name="Royalty Places">Royalty Places.xml</ref> This information listed here is limited to that listed in the places file, for more information see the [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] page.
|- id="Oubanyen"
! Oubanyen{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Jungle world
| A steamy jungle world with tree-top villages, hill-top ziggurats, city temples, and shaman caves. Native Oubanyeni work as Shamans, hunters, fishers, gatherers and [[goat]]herds. Tree-harvesters and their henchmen sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[pila]] and [[ikwa]] as personal weapons. Lethal [[psychic drone]]s and neurotoxin bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A steamy world of wet jungles, strange tribes with psychic powers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Chelis"
! Chelis{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Arid world
| An arid world with moisture farms, parch-towns, water centres and high lifehalls. Native Chelisi work as water gatherers, lizardskinners, oasis seekers, cactus gatherers and scav-herders. Chiefs and their sand-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry sand-arrows and cactus-clubs as personal weapons. Archotech-induced sandstorms and spikelizard stampedes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''An arid world of moisture-farming tribes'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Ilwaba"
! Ilwaba{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Ruin-world
| A regrown ruin-world with skyscraper villages, highway trade-posts, blast-land oases, and houses of regrowth. Native Ilwabans work as crete-farmers, path-makers, artifact hunters, tunnelwalkers, and artifact restorers. Crypto-leaders and their crypto-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry scrap-swords and jag-dagger as personal weapons. Dug-up nukes and ancient poison bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A regrown deathworld where tribes live among overgrown cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Boccocarro"
! Boccocarro{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Shell-world
| A cavernous shell-world with surface tunnels, fungus caverns, drip-wells, and speech-halls. Native Boccin work as miners, fungus growers, surface scavengers, community cooks, and frog-hunters. Mine hypervisor and their abyssal marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry pickaxes and hydraulic crossbows as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices and blackpowder bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A subterranean world with vast caverns and a baked, inhospitable surface. Many factious but isolated city-states'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Nuchadus"
! Nuchadus{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Volcano-world
| A dim volcano-world with basalt islands, caldera laketowns, dirigible villages, and thermal fortresses. Native nuchadeans work as seismologists, lava-snail farmers, tank-tread repairers, and airborne scouts. Lava lords and their stygian soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry obsidian daggers and harpoon rifles as personal weapons. Chem-warfare bombs and archotech-induced volcano eruptions have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A chaotic volcanic world far from the sun, covered with lava flows and black sand dunes. There are nomads and movable cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zoutera"
! Zoutera{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Dino-world
| A grassy dino-world with trading outposts, trent villages, mammoth burial grounds, and hill-top forts. Native Zoutin work as dino-riders, [[muffalo]]-herders, hunters, and toughleather makers. Tusk-kings and their tusk-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry bamboo staves and hunt-bomb arrows as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs and stampeding herds of ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A grassy planet populated by megafauna'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Wavia"
! Wavia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Oceanic planet
| An oceanic planet with trading atolls, floating villages, seaweed refineries, and capitol bridges. Native Wavians work as fishers, pearl divers, sail makers, captains, and sea-grass gatherers. Whaler admirals and their whaler-marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry harpoons and barbed nets as personal weapons. High-yield torpedoes and baited deep-kraken and Wavian leviathans have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A water world dotted with atolls and floating seaweed'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Likely a reference to the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film 'Waterworld'.
|- id="Bagua 5"
! Bagua 5{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Junkyard planet
| A junkyard planet with fortified scrapyards, rainwater processing plants, scrap-towns and trader spaceports. Native Bagucinquans work as scavengers, traders, tinkerers, guards, and scrappers. Junk lords and their metal-heads sometimes attack those living there. People carry pipe rifles and scrap-swords as personal weapons. Salvaged nukes and rust viruses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A junkyard planet of crashed ships, broken machinery, scavengers and traders'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> "Bagua" is the name of eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology and of a province of Peru - it is unclear if either etymology of the name is correct. The "-cinquan" suffix of the demonym simply comes from the French term for five - the inhabitants are literally "Bagua-5-ans".
|- id="Rhydell"
! Rhydell{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Forest moon
| A savage forest moon with converted dropships, low-shielded encampments, communication centers, and armored habitats. Native Rhydellians work as frontier botanists, trophy hunters, medics, camp cooks, and biolab engineers. Deepcorp executives and their deepcorp enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[sniper rifle]]s and machetes as personal weapons. Plant-derived neurotoxin gas and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A forest moon filled valuable flora and with dangerous predators'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Iwamura"
! Iwamura{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Stony asteroid
| A stony asteroid with market capsules, warehouse capsules, docking piers, and station bridges. Native Iwamurian work as life-support engineers, merchants, flight controllers, zero-g athletes, and radio hosts. Mega-corp CEOs and their rent-a-cops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge rifle]]s and welding torches as personal weapons. Aerosolized toxins, life-support sabotage viruses and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Iwamura is a stony asteroid housing a large trading hub'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Novaroma"
! Novaroma{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Planetoid
| A planetoid with ministries of permits, gated suburbs, over-cities, undercities, and megacity overhalls. Native novaromans work as clerks, officials, food couriers, taxi drivers, and retail workers. High-underlords and their undertroops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[revolver]]s and [[knife|knives]] as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices, cluster bombs, and nuclear suitcase-bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a planetoid covered in a vast city, ruled by a bureaucracy'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> The line of [[highmates]] found on the colony's rimworld fit the fashions of Novaroma.<ref>[[Highmate]] [[xenotype]] description</ref>
|- id="Filson"
! Filson{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Farm-world
| A rural farm-world with fertilizer processing plants, mega-granaries, water-bore sites, and town halls. Native Filsoners work as farm hands, fruit pickers, transport drivers, school teachers, and soil engineers. Landowners and their militia sometimes attack those living there. People carry rifles and scythes as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs, weaponized pesticide sprays and space lenses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a rural planet of vast agriculture plots and territorial landowners'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Creticon"
! Creticon{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Deathworld<ref name="Book descriptions"/><ref name="Ideology Places"/>
| A blasted death-world with bunkers, caverns, ice-shelters, and director's bunkers. Native Creticonians work as water-recycler repairers, algae farmers, doctors, teachers, militia commanders, and shuttle pilots. Warlords and their mercenaries sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[autopistol]]s and [[LMG]]s as personal weapons. Shoulder-mounted nuclear missiles, orbital bombardments, chemical bombs, and hacked mechanoids have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a high-tech death-world where everyone lives in bunkers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Yttak"
! Yttak{{IdeologyIcon}}{{BiotechIcon}}
| Ice-moon/Icy planet
| An ice-moon prison with meal halls, guard barracks, detention centers, and warden's office complex. Native Yttaki are detainees and escapees, or work as guards, maintenance workers, and transport drivers. Prison wardens and their corrupt guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry shivs and SMGs as personal weapons. Improvised chemical bombs and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a frigid ice-moon prison colony'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The [[#Yttakin|Yttakin]] xenohumans were first engineered to populate Yttak and they've since spread to other worlds.<ref name="Yttakin pirates">[[Yttakin pirates]] [[faction]] description</ref> Yttak is alternately referred to as a moon,<ref name="Ideology Places"/> a planet,<ref name="Yttakin pirates"/> and a world<ref>[[Yttakin]] [[xenotype]] description</ref> which could apply to either. It is unclear which is canonically correct. Given the pronunciation of Yttakin as "ee-ta-keen",<ref name="Biotech Preview 4">[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/3319740412995643281 Biotech Preview #4] Steam Announcement</ref> the name of the world is likely pronounced "Ee-tak".
|- id="Kemia"
! Kemia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Toxic war-world
| A toxic war-world with slums, tunnel colonies, undertowns, and city lordhouses. Native Kemian work as street sweepers, cleanup engineers, protein farmers, taxi drivers, and weapons builders. Poison lords and their venom-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry gas bombs and toxic flamethrowers as personal weapons. Nuclear dirty bombs, bio-engineered plagues, and penetrating toxic bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a toxic, overcrowded world with an oppressive government'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Rogia"
! Rogia{{IdeologyIcon}}
|
| A glitter-tech world with medical institutes, space elevators, robotics factories, and a planetary capitol. Native Rogians work as starforce cadets, artisan farmers, social-media prodigies, zero-g athletes, and glitter-tech smugglers. Corrupt bureaucrats and their bionic guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge lance]]s and [[persona monosword]]s as personal weapons. Antimatter warheads, weaponized computer viruses, and remote-controlled mechanoid workers have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a world of windy prairies and towering glitter-tech cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Relationship with [[#Amen-Ti|Amen-Ti]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire, of which Amen-Ti is the capital.
|- id="Xanides"
! Xanides{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Mineral-planet
| An exploited mineral-planet with strip mines, ore refineries, nutrient paste cafeterias, and oxygen depots. Native Xanidians work as miners, supervisors, technicians, mechanics, and life support engineers. Mine-crop bosses and their mine-corp troops sometimes attack those living there. People carry electro-batons and [[autopistol]]s as personal weapons. Blasting charges and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a small strip-mining planet with a thin atmosphere'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Lutuni"
! Lutuni{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Unknown
| A rainforest paradise with augmentation clinics, hyper-yachts, zero-g stadia, and space elevator complexes. Native Luntuni work as tourist guides, zero-g performers, [[luciferium]] distributors, virtual celebrities, and shuttle pilots. Entertainment moguls and their enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry vibro-knives and charge pistols as personal weapons. Structural disintegration bacterium and smuggled [[orbital bombardment targeter]]s have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a rainforest paradise and glitterworld tourist destination'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zartza"
! Zartza
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Given the name, presumably involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] as either a battlefield or belligerent.<ref name="Harris"/> It is unknown whether the planet was a deathworld before the conflict.
|}
'''Note:''' The rimworlds on which gameplay takes place have randomly generated names. Due to both their limited application and randomly generated nature, the randomly generated names of these rimworlds are considered semi-canonical only and are not listed here.


==== Systems ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Xennoa system"
! Xennoa system
| Hosted a military base. Has a military with infantry and spacejets, involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] <ref name="Harris">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Kyle Harris|Kyle Harris]]</ref>
|}

==== Other ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Utmaior Academy"
! Utmaior Academy
| Prestigious academy on a glitterworld <ref name="Doc">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#James Grey|James 'Doc' Grey]]</ref>
|- id="Vanu Defense College"
! Vanu Defense College
| Teaches young cadets proficiency in a range of weapons and survival skills.<ref name="Leystrat">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Bashkire Leystrat|Bashkire Leystrat]]</ref>
|- id="Caspian School of Engineering"
! Caspian School of Engineering
| A glitterworld school that offers mathematics and computer programming in its curriculum. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darrien Maliphalo|Darrien 'Mal' Maliphalo]]</ref>
|- id="Vinna"
! Vinna
| A place with raiders and mudlands. Possibly a planet. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ida Painstingle|Ida 'Ida' Painstingle]]</ref>
|- id="Atura station"
! Atura station{{IdeologyIcon}}
| An orbital shipyard with shuttle docks, manufacturing rings, residential rings, and a central control room. Native Alturans work as construction drone operators, managers, test pilots, sales agents, and 3D printer technicians. Crime bosses and their thugs sometimes attack those living there. People carry tasers and arc welders as personal weapons. EMP strikes to the life support systems and remote-controlled welding drones have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''an orbital dry dock and construction yard'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zeglar colonies"
! Zeglar colonies
| Purchases slaves, including for male prostitution.<ref name="Gnugfur">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Krondorfer|Robert 'Gnugfur' Krondorfer]]</ref>
|- id="New Jerusalem"
! New Jerusalem{{AnomalyIcon}}
| Unknown if even a real place, or a place at all - only mentioned by [[golden cube]]-obsessed pawns talking about a "cubic New Jerusalem" <ref name="RulePacks_Cube">RulePacks_Cube.xml]</ref>
|}
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Background planet pc.png |A rimworld {{PCIcon}}
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Background moon pc 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background planet console.png|A rimworld {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
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Background planet royalty.png |A rimworld {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background planet ideology.png|A rimworld {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
</gallery>

=== Events ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Zartha crisis
| Apparently a military conflict fought over many worlds, in both ground and air domains with fighters and fighter controllers deployed. <ref name="Leystrat"/>
|- id="Inner Destrian War"
! Inner Destrian War
| <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chad Walcenville|Chad 'Stonejaw' Walcenville]]</ref>
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Callos IX incident
| James 'Doc' Grey performed unethical experiments on the survivors of this incident, and when the experiments were published, he was exiled. <ref name="Doc"/>
|- id="Xennoa-Zartza War"
! Xennoa-Zartza War
| A military conflict presumably fought either in, or by a polity from, the [[#Xennoa system|Xennoa system]],<ref name="Harris"/> presumably either on or against a polity based on, the planet [[#Zartza|Zartza]].<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Infantry and spacejets were deployed during the conflict.<ref name="Harris"/>
|}

=== Planet types ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Deadworld"
! Deadworld
| Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Deathworld"
! Deathworld
| Distinct from deadworlds and sometimes spelled as '''Death-world''', the meaning of the term deathworld appears to correlate with the common usage of the term in science fiction discussion - namely a planet that is technically habitable but incredibly hostile to human life. [[#Impids|Impids]] are described as originally being designed for "''dry deathworlds''",<ref>[[Impid]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> while [[#Wasters|wasters]] are designed for "''post-apocalyptic deathworlds''".<ref>[[Waster]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> [[Books]] about the [[Research#Battery|Battery research]] can reference an "''acid lake on the leaden shores of a deathworld worked as a natural battery''".<ref>[[Research#Battery|Battery research]] subject_story strings.</ref> [[#Creticon|Creticon]] is described a "''blasted death-world''" while it is further described in code-comments as "''[...] a high-tech death-world''"., however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> [[#Ilwaba|Ilwaba]] is described in code-comments as a "''regrown deathworld''", however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The disparate natures of these examples support the concept that why a deathworld is hostile to human life is not important to the definition, only that it is hostile. Despite the difficulty of living on these planets, some are still inhabited - [[Books]] about the [[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]]{{BiotechIcon}} can reference the author "''research[ing] cloud control tech for the tyrannocracy of a deathworld''",<ref>[[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]] subject_story strings.</ref> which implies not only people living on the planet, but a system of government. [[#Zartza|Zartza]], [[#Rayth|Rayth]], [[#Spectra|Spectra]], [[#JNovahex|JNovahex]], [[#Carthago|Carthago]], and [[#Grimcore|Grimcore]] are also referenced as being deathworlds.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Animal world"
! Animal world
| Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Medieval world"
! Medieval worlds
| Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
|- id="Steamworld"
! Steamworld
| Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Midworld"
! Midworld
| Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Urbworld"
! Urbworld
| Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Urbworlds can build mechanoids. <ref name="Keuneke">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Markus Keuneke|Markus 'Keuneke' Keuneke]]</ref>Some urbworlds have worldwide cities ruled by corporations. <ref name="Coffey">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darius Coffey|Darius Coffey]]</ref>Urbworlds can be ancient - some even have greedy nobility in spire palaces while cannibal cults exist in the deepest reaches of the underground hive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Skye Lorne|Skye 'Skye' Lorne]]</ref>
|- id="Glitterworld"
! Glitterworlds
| The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Likely synonmous with '''glitter-tech world'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> Glitterworlds are mostly free of disease and human suffering, and surgeons employed there mostly perform elaborate and creative cosmetic surgeries, and never have to remove a cancer or a bullet.<ref>Glitterworld surgeon Backstory</ref> While glitterworlds are peaceful places and some units rarely see action, they often remain prepared for war.<ref>Glitterworld Officer Backstory</ref> Despite this tendency towards peace, some glitterworlds do field space navies and engage in active campaigns against enemy cultures.<ref name="Nerhesi"/> On some glitterworlds all menial work was done by robots and people devoted themselves to leisure.<ref>Biosphere Manager Backstory</ref> This extends to some technical fields as well, such as AI handling all the technical aspects of architecture, allowing architects to focus on artistic expression <ref>Architect Backstory</ref> This is not universal however, as others still had humans washing dishes in restaurants<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Stijn Gezink|Stijn 'Stin' Gezink]]</ref> Farms are operated on some glitterworlds, though all but rare exceptions have abandoned traditional farming methods for glitterworld technologies.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Pete Holiday|Pete Holiday]]</ref>Glitterworld police forces were often equipped with [[recon armor]]<ref>[[Recon armor]] description</ref> and [[Recon helmet|helmets]].<ref>[[Recon helmet]] description</ref> Some glitterworlds have mechanoid companions for children,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Erisen Irioth|Erisen 'Erisen' Irioth]]</ref> or as workers.<ref name="Rogia">Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> At least some Glitterworlds apparently remain capitalist, as attending their universities can leave a person in enormous debt,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Caitlin Stirr|Caitlin 'Cait' Stirr]]</ref> and corporations exist.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Michael|Ryan 'Legend' Michael]]</ref><ref name="Brazil">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jhet Whistler|Jhet 'Brazil' Whistler]]</ref> At least some Glitterworlds were monarchic, with royal households that would intermarry with the royal families of other planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xiao Li|Xiao 'Ally' Li]]</ref> See also: Sophiamunda and the Empire for information about a specific glitterworld society.
|- id="Rimworld"
! Rimworlds
| Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crash-land or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Coreworld"
! Coreworld
| Based on the name, may be the worlds that form the astrographical or political core of human civilization, perhaps including Earth and other early colonies. Alternatively, may be worlds located in the galactic core or some other definition. In the now non-canon [[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]], coreworlds and rimworlds were instead defined in opposition to each other. Coreworlds were those planets in the galactic core whose social and technological development benefited from the clustering of stars, and thus other cultures, in the core. Rimworlds were in turn those planets outside the core and thus further from neighbours.<ref name="RimWorld Universe Quick Primer">[[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]]</ref> However, with the new canon definition for rimworld, it's likely that this definition of core and rimworlds has been become non-canon, probably because the galactic core is significantly beyond the 1200 light year wide canonical expansion of humanity.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Possibly synonymous with planets in the 'core region', which includes at least one glitterworld.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Candice Roughchild|Candice Roughchild]]</ref> Appear to be relatively advanced and stable, with at least midworld level surgical capabilities,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Alyssa Orchard|Alyssa 'Sparkles' Orchard]]</ref> planetary governments,<ref name="Anarchist">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Mike Mudgett|Mike 'Anarchist' Mudgett]]</ref> and sufficient competent military forces to push out both anarchists<ref name="Anarchist"/> and fairly large mercenary forces.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Aznable Coal|Aznable 'Reikguard' Coal]]</ref>
|- id="Toxic world"
! Toxic world
| Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Toxic may have a limited definition, or may only relate to Humans, as some toxic worlds are overgrown with hostile plant life.<ref name="Johs">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Johs Barrowlocht|Johs 'Johs' Barrowlocht]]</ref>
|- id="Glassworld"
! Glassworld
| Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbour permanent life bigger than a paramecium.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Transcendent world"
! Transcendent world
| It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome when a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Indworld"
! Indworlds
| Distinct from [[#Industrial worlds|industrial worlds]], these are worlds undergoing their industrial revolution.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Victoria Louene|Victoria 'Vicky' Louene]]</ref>
|- id="Industrial world"
! Industrial world
| Distinct from [[#Indworld|Indworlds]], these are worlds devoted predominantly to industry.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Amelia Flais|Amelia 'Engie' Flais]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sa'Bikk Saleosy|Sa'Bikk 'Sab' Saleosy]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Daniel Mann|Daniel 'Dankman' Mann]]</ref> Some host large factory cities<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Felix von Schild|Felix von Schild]]</ref>
|- id="Farming planet"
! Farming planet
| Worlds devoted predominantly to farming. Not necessarily technologically backwards, with some using automated machinery that grow and harvest the multitude of crops. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Conlay Shen|Conlay Shen]]</ref> Likely synonymous with '''farm-worlds'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Filson entry</ref>
|- id="Prison planet"
! Prison planet
| Worlds where convicts are condemned to remove malefactors from society. <ref name="Jay">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jered Martin|Jered 'Jay' Martin]]</ref>
|- id="Feudal world"
! Feudal world
| Multi-planet feudal empires besides the [[Empire]] exist. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Frank Laquinto|Frank 'Isimiel' Laquinto]]</ref>
|- id="Trash planet"
! Trash planets
| Dumping grounds for surrounding glitterworlds <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xandarian Stalzer|Xandarian 'Xandy' Stalzer]]</ref>
|- id="Junkyard planet"
! Junkyard planet
| Apparently self-descriptive. Possibly synonymous with trash planets, but given the name possibly differentiated by being intended to allow salvage and scrapping rather than simply dumping.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Bagua 5 entry</ref>
|- id="Iceworld"
! Iceworld
| Apparently self-descriptive. Plants are rare. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Slivaki Warts|Slivaki 'Sliverwar' Warts]]</ref>
|- id="Dino-world"
! Dino-worlds
| Apparently self-descriptive - worlds inhabited by dinosaurs and other megafauna, likely resurrected through genetic engineering. Mentioned species of a single example dino-world include: ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors.<ref name="Zoutera">Ideology Places.xml - Zoutera entry</ref>
* '''War-worlds''' - Worlds stuck in an endless cycle of war. These planets are typically over polluted due to constant usage of bombs and chemical weapons.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Kemia entry</ref>
* '''Mineral-planets''' - Unknown definition. Likely descriptive of either their natural resources or their economic product<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Xanides entry</ref>
* '''Oceanic planets''' - Apparently self-descriptive.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
* '''Other worlds''' - Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>

'''Additional facts:'''
* Steamworlds and Midworlds aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Charles Zillioner|Charles 'Charlzie' Zillioner]]</ref>
* Industrial planets and midworlds ''may'' not necessarily be mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lancelot Hale|Lancelot 'Lance' Hale]]</ref>
* Several spacer or glittertech societies, including Iwamura, Rogia, and Lutuni, host zero-g sports with professional athletes competing, some in zero-g stadia. Lutuni also hosts zero-g performers of an unknown type.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>

=== Technologies and Militaries ===
A variety of militaries exist in various styles, structures, purposes and technology levels. This include naval and space-based fleets, ground infantry, orbital troopers, spaceship-to-spaceship boarding actions and a massive variety of supersoldier projects.

==== Militaries and Military Technology ====
* '''Space marines''' - A role filled by human warriors. Some serve on the navy ships of space-faring empires, where they punch into enemy starships, gun down the crew, and capture the ship intact.<ref>Space marine Backstory</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nico Storch|Nico Storch]]</ref> Others serve in the security forces of off-planet corporations, defending ships against pirates and engaging in private space warfare contracts.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Roland Kleist|Roland 'Roland' Kleist]]</ref> One organisation of space marines was the "Interplanetary Marines" which fought on behalf of a particular planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Trevor Cobb|Trevor 'Hunter' Cobb]]</ref> Colony contact expeditionary forces employ space marine medics.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Torrijos|Ryan 'Noob' Torrijos]]</ref> [[Marine armor]]<ref>[[Marine armor]] description</ref> and [[marine helmet|helmets]]<ref>[[Marine helmet]] description</ref> were often used by rapid-incursion space marines. [[Go-juice]] was developed as a combat drug for space marines during the early days of interplanetary warfare.<ref>[[Go-juice]] description</ref>
* '''Navy pathfinders''' - A group of military explorers dedicated to charting pathways through deep space and on remote planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicklaus Blackthorn|Nicklaus 'Shadow' Blackthorn]]</ref>
* '''Mechanoids''' - Some militaries deploy combat mechanoids in their militaries <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dennis McCarthy|Dennis 'Mac' McCarthy]]</ref><ref name="Keuneke"/>
* '''Charge pistols''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Vibro-knives''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Archotech mass-inverter''' - A mass weapon of unknown description created by archotechs.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''Tasers''' - Exist.<ref name="Altura station">Ideology Places.xml - Altura station entry</ref>
* '''Mega-cannon''' - A "frighteningly powerful" long-range cannon for artillery or anti-ship use.<ref name="Ancient mega-cannon barrel">[[Ancient mega-cannon barrel]] description</ref>

==== Ship types ====
* '''Interplanetary super-destroyer''' - Such as the HMS Thunder-Child of the Royal Fleet <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jake Maddams|Jake 'Table' Maddams]]</ref>
* '''Starfighters''' - Combat spacecraft and are flown by starfighter pilots for militaries.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sjoerd Lukas|Sjoerd 'Bowman' Lukas]]</ref> See also '''manned fighters'''.
* '''Manned Fighters''' - Spacecraft launched from Carrier Ships and flown by fighter pilots.<ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Military spacejet''' - Deployed in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]].<ref name="Harris"/>
* '''Carrier Ships''' - Carry manned fighters. Carried escape pods. <ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Fighter-bombers''' - Fielded by the [[Empire]], a fighter bomber design specialized in spreading incendiary gel on flammable targets. Presumably an atmospheric craft.<ref>Firebomber Backstory</ref>
* '''Spaceyacht''' - A human-piloted pleasure craft and transport for the well-to-do, such as wealthy businessmen and politicians <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Owen Clarke|Owen 'Cali' Clarke]]</ref>
* '''Space cruiser''' - A manned space-capable ship of some kind.<ref name="Jay"/>
* '''Consularship''' - Such as the St. Anthem. Carried glitterworld diplomats on diplomatic tasks. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Florian Haas|Florian 'Skater' Haas]]</ref>
* '''Hyper-yacht''' - Unknown. Possibly a glitterworld pleasure craft but the canonicity of code-comments are unclear.<ref name="Lutuni"/>
* '''Escape pod''' - Carried by starships, used to escape crippled or destroyed ships.<ref>[[Scenario system#Crashlanded|"Crashlanded" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref>[[Scenario system#The Sanguophage|"The Sanguophage" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref name="Nerhesi"/><ref name="Gnugfur"/>
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Background ship biotech 1.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
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====Other technologies====
* '''Substance F''' - A drug. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Peter Marshall|Peter 'Pete' Marshall]]</ref>
* '''Mindwiping and mental reprogramming''' - Practiced on some urbworlds. See also: '''Body Confiscation''' <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Body confiscation''' - Some urbworlds will confiscate criminal's bodies for use. <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Autocycle''' - A midworld vehicle. <ref name="Ironhead">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Seafield|Robert 'Ironhead' Seafield]]</ref>
* '''Netcasts''' - A midworld audio medium. <ref name="Ironhead"/>
* '''Vidtube''' - A popular video sharing service. Hosted everything from video game reviews to pasta cooking guides. Some had over a million followers on the service. People on the service were called Vidtuber Stars or Vidtubers <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Remy Young|Remy Young]]</ref>
* '''Holography''' - Including interactive holography which gives form to artificial intelligences to allow them to interact <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dave Mark|Dave 'Fox' Mark]]</ref>
* '''VR''' - Accesses to a virtual gaming universe by spinal plug. Can be addictive. Unplugging during play can create a mental backlash and merge the real and virtual identities. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Douglas Black|Douglas 'Doug' Black]]</ref> Can also be used to raise children or teach professions<ref name="Brazil"/>
* '''Neurosimulator''' - A technology available on Glitterworlds that apparently lets you experience a simulation of "exploring the stars", and possibly other scenarios. Relationship to VR unknown. <ref>"[[Scenario system#The Rich Explorer|The Rich Explorer]]" scenario description</ref>
* '''Vatgrown''' - Genetically modified living creatures, including humans, grown in a lab and usually designed and programmed for a specific task. Capable of being produced on some urbworlds. Examples of roles for which vatgrown humans were produced include Soldiers,<ref>Vatgrown Soldier Backstory</ref> Combat Medics <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Edward Toon|Edward Toon]]</ref>, Assassins <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vaska Neemor|Vaska 'Vas' Neemor]]</ref>, Slavegirls (which are illegal at least in some places) <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Emily Young|Emily 'Emmie' Young]]</ref>, and even Scientists with minds perfectly tuned for physics and chemistry. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicole Squid|Nicole 'Nicole' Squid]]</ref> The same process, along with genetic modification, was also used in the weaponization of the original Sorne Geneline into the current [[Insectoid]] species.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description"/>
* '''Perfect mates''' - Genetically-engineered on glitterworlds, are fertile and capable of producing children.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chaz Serir|Chaz 'Chaz' Serir]]</ref> Their relation to vatgrown and highmates is currently unknown, however a currently unused backstory in the gamefiles states they, or at least some, are vatgrown in hyper-expensive clinics to serve the tastes of a specific client. They are engineered, raised and trained as a perfect pleasure-giving mate, with ''"learned skills that would baffle even the most seductive baseline human lovers"''. The canonicity of these statements are also currently unknown.
* '''G-nome Project''' - A Genetic engineering project that created humans implanted at birth with encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of xenobiology. Presumably on a Glitterworld. Relation to vatgrown unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Joshua Nelson|Joshua 'Gizmo' Nelson]]</ref>
* '''Lab-grown children''' - An altruistic but failed attempt to create a new class of human. Method and relation to similar concepts unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lukas Dietrich|Lukas Dietrich]]</ref>
* '''Clone-farming''' - Clone children are seeded into nutrient-rich womb-vats and rapidly grown in a simmed (i.e. VR) universe. They're harvested later, sometimes for food, sometimes for organs, sometimes for workers - but they're always disposable. Harvesting the products of clone farms is mostly done by the clones themselves - particularly to those whose sims tended towards the social. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dan Griliopoulos|Dan 'Grill' Griliopoulos]]</ref>
* '''Online hiveminds''' - Worldwide system that sacrifices the peoples individuality to join together in an online hivemind.<ref>Urbworld Rebel Backstory</ref>
* '''Space elevators''' - A number of planets use space elevators.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''3D printers''' - Used on orbital shipyards in some capacity.<ref name="Altura station"/>
* '''Glitterpedia''' - A glitterworld technology through which glitterpedia recorders document information.<ref name="Codex">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ang Gao|Ang 'Codex' Gao]]</ref> Likely analogous to Wikipedia.
* '''Eltex''' - A material, threads of which can be embedded in [[prestige armor|specialized armor]] or [[eltex|clothing]] to enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.<ref>[[Prestige armor]] descriptions</ref> It is technically indeterminate whether it is responsible for improving neural heat dissipation, however as eltex is the only noted difference between prestige armors and their standard variants it is likely the case. It is possible that eltex is simply one of, or the most significant of, the "special psychic focusing materials" mentioned in the description of eltex clothing.<ref>[[Eltex]] item descriptions</ref>

=== Named characters ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="King Loteric"
! King Loteric
| A king of an unknown kingdom in an unknown world. Died in an unfortunate accident. <ref>Child-knave Backstory</ref>
|- id="Grady Loughman"
! Grady Loughman
| A kingpin of a drug cartel.<ref>Drug lieutenant Backstory</ref>
|- id="Lord-explorer Varan-Dur"
! Lord-explorer Varan-Dur
| An explorer who was made into the first Sanguophage by an Archotech they tried to control.
<ref>Sanguophage description</ref>
|}

=== Named groups ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Doomben Rats"
! Doomben Rats
| A notorious and violent urchin gang.<ref>Pickpocket Backstory</ref>
|- id="Corestars Entertainment Company"
! Corestars Entertainment Company
| An entertainment organization that buys people to appear on it's shows. One of their shows is apparently called Bloodgame.<ref>Backstory of Bloodgame Survivor</ref>
|}

=== Animals ===
* '''Furred xenohumans''' - Exist on a cold rimworld of at least industrial level.<ref name="Svejgaard">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benjamin Svejgaard|Benjamin 'Svejgaard' Svejgaard]]</ref> May refer to [[#Yttakin|yttakin]] or some other furred xenotype.
* '''Transbirds''' - Exist and crewed, and presumably captained, starships.<ref name="Svejgaard"/> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Trans-]] indicated animals with intelligence in the human range from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing">[[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]]</ref> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that transbirds are modified, intelligent birds.
* '''Opticows''' - Present on Midworlds in agricultural settings. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jacqueline Richter|Jacqueline 'Jackalope' Richter]]</ref> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Opti-]] indicated animals with enhanced but still sub-human intelligence from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidogs, optipigs, optiwhales, and optimonkeys were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing"/> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that opticows are modified, semi-intelligent [[cow]]s.
* '''Lava-snail''' - Farmed on the dim volcano-world of Nuchadus.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
* '''Deep-kraken''' - Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of Wavia.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and kraken are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
* '''Wavian leviathans''' - Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of Wavia.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and leviathans are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
* '''Pygmy wombat''' - A furry animal.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Riesling Bacchus|Riesling Bacchus]]</ref>
* '''Ankylosaurs''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the dinosaurs of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Blue mammoths''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the ancient elephantid of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering, and possibly with modifications similar to the [[muffalo]] to make them blue. Mammoth burial grounds are mentioned as existing on the world of Zoutera, however whether this is natural behavior like the mythical "elephant's graveyard" or something created by the human inhabitants of that world is unclear.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Novoraptors'''- Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions or variants of the dromaeosaurids and similar dinosaurs commonly given the '-raptor' suffix resurrected through genetic engineering. Given the name, it is possible that they are not pure reproductions of previously existing raptor species, but rather some variant or combination thereof.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Thorny Devil''' - A reptile discovered by Venus 'Unay' David. Relation to the real species ''moloch horridus'', also called the thorny devil, is unknown, but presumably they are distinct.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Venus David|Venus 'Unay' David]]</ref>

==== Boomrats ====
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=== Other ===
* Mechanoid wars are common <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nathaniel Hicklin|Nathaniel Hicklin]] and others</ref>
* Religions are still present and practiced.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Samuel Chua|Samuel 'Chewy' Chua]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Levin Lossfelt|Levin 'Levin' Lossfelt]]</ref><ref name="Oahnip"/> See also [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] for their specific religion.
* All-Might - the name of a superhero, presumably fictional.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Brazos Wheeler|Brazos 'Braz' Wheeler]]</ref> ''Out of Universe: This is likely a reference to the character of the same name in the "My Hero Academia" multimedia franchise.''
* Arcknight Industries - a company that employs space truckers.<ref name="Johs"/>
* Haspian monks - A religious order that lived in a monastery a thousand years before the events of the game, approximately year 4500, before the monastery was "erased" by a [[diabolus]] attack.<ref>[[Diabolus]] description</ref> It is unclear if Haspian is a demonym or the name of the order of monks.
* Frame Project is an unknown government that leaves it's subjects with memory losses. Only few survive. <ref>Project subject Backstory</ref>

== Xenotypes ==
<big>'''Dirtmoles'''</big>
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<big>'''Genies'''</big>
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<big>'''Highmates'''</big>
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<big>'''Hussars'''</big>
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<big>'''Impids'''</big>
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<big>'''Neanderthals'''</big>
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<big>'''Pigskins'''</big>
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<big>'''Sanguophages'''</big>
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<big>'''Wasters'''</big>
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<big>'''Yttakin'''</big>
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== Psycasts ==
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== FTL inconsistencies ==
{{Quote|Despite millennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.| Current Canon Cryptosleep briefing}}
The current canon of RimWorld is that there is no faster-than-light travel, even in the hands of the otherwise incomprehensibly advanced [[archotech]]s. However the existence of certain in-game mechanics bring this into question. Most discussed are skipping [[psycasts]] from [[Royalty]], and skipping [[entities]] from [[Anomaly]].

=== Royalty ===
"Skip" is a class of psycasts with blue ability icon that moving things from a spot to another. These psycasts includes [[Chunk skip]], [[Solar pinhole]], [[Waterskip]], [[Chaos skip]], [[Smokepop]], [[Skip]], [[Wallraise]], [[Flashstorm]], [[Mass chaos skip]], [[Farskip]] and [[Skipshield]].

==== Skip and farskip ====
Both skip and farskip moves the targets seemingly instantaneously. For farskip this is to a point that could feasibly be anywhere on the planet, so long as willing ally is there to act as a "navigation beacon". While both psycasts do have a casting time, the targets don't move during this time and instead only travel after the time is complete. Therefore, that is not sufficient to dismiss the argument of FTL travel. As farskip has the longer range, it will be the focus for reasons that will be become apparent.

At its widest point, the Earth's diameter 12,756 kilometers. Assuming the rimworld is similarly sized to Earth, then this is the maximum distance a farskip can travel, point to point. Traveling this distance at the speed of light would take 42.55 milliseconds. Time in RimWorld is sped up, with a full 24 hour day only taking 16 minutes and 40 seconds. So from the player's perspective, this 42.55 ms of in-game time would only appear as {{#expr: 42.55* ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

Unlikely as this is due to none of the other effects of being on so large a planet would have being present, if the rimworld is not Earth sized and was instead as large as the largest rocky planet discovered at the time of writing, BD +20° 594 b, then this would increase to {{#expr: 42.55* 2.23 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

In either case, the difference between this speed and truly instant would be utterly imperceptible to a human player. A farskip on an Earth sized planet would require a roughly 2000 Hz refresh rate just to display the difference between a FTL and a STL farskip. In other words, there is no discernible difference between a FTL and STL farskip, and so farskip cannot be assumed to break the no FTL rule. Skip is also apparently instantaneous and deals with even shorter distances and thus even shorter travel times. Therefore, there is also no reason to assume that skip violates the rule.

==== Solar pinhole ====
Solar pinhole canonically skips material from the core of a nearby star. Unlike skip and farskip, we do not observe the target matter beginning its journey, thus the effect can begin as soon as casting time is started to give it the benefit of the doubt. However the target is also not next to the psycaster. This means that causality must propagate at the speed of light to the core, before matter could be skipped from the core to the psycaster's chosen point again at the speed of light, otherwise faster-than-light transfer of information and/or movement has occurred.

With a 0.25 real second casting time, the in-game time to cast is {{#expr: 0.25 / ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) }} seconds. The maximum distance that light could travel in that time is approximately 6.5 million kilometers, and the maximum return trip is only 3.25 million km. This is closer to the star than even the minimum habitable zone of a very dim red dwarf at ~4.8 million kilometers. There are also no other effects that imply that the sun is that close.

For reference, propagation to the core and back would take ~16.6 minutes in in-game time if solar pinhole was cast on a planet as distant from its star as Earth is from the Sun, if the effect traveled at light speed. This would result in a real-time casting time of ''{{#expr: 998 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} seconds'', instead of only 0.25.

In addition, a pawn with [[aiming time]] reductions, such as from [[trigger-happy]] or the [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] role, would have an even shorter casting time.

Thus, the gameplay of solar pinhole does conflict with the canon around FTL travel.

=== Anomaly ===
A large amount of [[entities]] possessing some forms of skipping:
* [[Void monolith]], [[noctolith]], [[metalhorror]], [[nociosphere]], [[golden cube]], [[unnatural corpse]], [[void structure]] can skip into your colony as their entry method.
* Skipping is the only method for a nociosphere to moving itself around.
* Crash the golden cube with [[collapsed rocks]] cause it skips itself away.
* Unnatural corpse can skips to its target to haunt or hypnotize them.
* [[Warped obelisk]] Rapidly skips very large amount of items and pawns in and out of the [[labyrinth]] when it is operating.
* Void monolith can skips pawns to the [[metal hell]], and [[void node]] later skips them out of there.

The "skip abduction" [[psychic ritual]] can skip its victim to the psychic ritual spot.

With the sheer amount of skipping methods introduced in the [[Anomaly DLC]], and the fact they share the almost identical audiovisual effects with skipping psycasts which also archotech origin, this implies that archotech - or at least Horax - is highly advanced in FTL technology, despite the Cryptosleep Revival Briefing claims to the contrary.

==Empire==
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==Mechanoids==
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==Insectoids==
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==Official Documents==
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'''Cryptosleep Revival Briefing (Current)'''
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=== Cryptosleep Revival Briefing ===

Subject class: Health revival, sourced midworld 2M+

Planet: Euterpe
==== Introduction ====

Hello, _______________________.

You’ve awoken from your cryptosleep sarcophagus, scraped off the slime, and now you find yourself in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

To start with some good news - your terminal illness, _____________________, has been cured. Congratulations!

Beyond that, the situation is complex. Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and take in this information as slowly as you want. You’ve been asleep a long time, a lot has changed - and a lot remains the same.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historia believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago. Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, robotic terraforming projects, and DNA-synthesizing probes.

Today, mankind is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. Our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of this region, where the stars were colonized earlier. At the edge of known space lie the rimworlds, drifting alone with few inhabited neighbors, mostly unvisited.

We’ve created many new technologies, but despite milennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be very disconnected from each other socially and technologically. The next star over could experience a catastrophic war, and you wouldn’t even know until ten years later when the news reports arrive. If you’re unlucky, you’d have already launched a journey towards that now-destroyed planet in a ship that cannot turn around.

Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, for a time. In the core worlds, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

So most people never travel between stars, and if they do, they do it once or twice, because each journey means leaving behind a life that you cannot return to for decades at least. With a few exceptions, each star system is essentially on its own.

Mankind never discovered any truly alien lifeforms. However, given the ways we’ve changed ourselves, and created new forms of biological and technological intelligence, the universe is full of beings as alien as anything ever imagined.

==== Planetary progression and regression ====
The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression.

During your time - the five centuries after the industrial revolution - many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its development, or diverts it into another state entirely.

Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles, and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for thousands of years at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves stuck by an ideological opposition to technology, or a lack of resources, or constant war.

The nuclear age is a brutal test for every world. Roughly half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). After the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, microscopic mechanites, joywires, hex-cell energy storage, and AI persona, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of peoples.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism often fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== World types ====
The states a planet can be in are colloquially grouped as follows:
* Deadworlds: Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.
* Animal worlds: Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Medieval worlds: Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Steamworlds: Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.
* Midworlds: Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.
* Urbworlds: Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.
* Glitterworlds: The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.
* Rimworlds: Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.
* Toxic worlds: Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.
* Glassworlds: Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor permanent life bigger than a paramecium.
* Transcendent worlds: It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself. More on this later.
* Other worlds: Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.

==== Key technologies ====
There are uncountable new technologies in this universe, but several key techs stand out as having had the strongest consistent impact on the shape of mankind’s life in the Milky Way.
* Midworld technologies: All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the 21st century play an important role even now. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the stone age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use across various planets.
* [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep sarcophagi]]: Developed during the 21st century, this remarkably simple technology can keep a living creature in a cryptobiotic state indefinitely, to be awoken tens or even thousands of years later. These devices are essential for most interstellar travel, and are also used by those waiting in crypts for better times or for cures to their diseases.
* Genetic engineering: Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, [[Boomalope|chemical-refining animals]], and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* [[Mechanoid]]s: Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Mechanoid design is complex, and the AI needed to make them effective is very advanced. They range in capability from simple domestic worker bots to mechanized assault machines, to human-passing negotiator and infiltrator units designed by archotechnological superintelligences.
* [[Ship|Johnson-Tanaka Drive]]: A spacecraft drive system that works without reaction mass. This means it doesn't need to throw gas out the back of the craft to accelerate like a rocket, which makes it possible to accelerate for years at a time. This technology, combined with cryptosleep, is what made interstellar travel at all feasible for living humans. The drive doesn’t violate conservation laws; it works by transferring momentum to nearby stars along precisely-aligned “beams” of momentum waves instantiated in exotic virtual particles.
* Mechanites: Microscopic mechanoids. Most known for their use in medicine, they can be programmed to do many other things as well. Safe use of mechanites means strictly preventing them from reproducing.
* [[Charge rifle|Charged]]-[[Charge lance|shot]] weapons: Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion.
* [[Joywire]]s: Tiny electronic devices implanted in the brain. They stimulate the brain using electricity and small doses of chemicals, usually to produce a euphoric effect. They are very addictive.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquirers have discovered that the alien was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; others are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originating culture was erased by planetary catastrophes.

For example, records tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Radiation resistance: Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; scientists estimate that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Soldiermorphs: Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Designer mates: Some worlds engineer their idea of perfect mates for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in cryptosleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades, streaks of multicolored hair, or artistic patterns on the skin.
* Fashion genes: Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Body structure adaptations: Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.
* Atmospheric adaptations: Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).

So don’t be alarmed if you see someone with gills or solid orange eyeballs. They’re just another kind of human, like you!

==== Welcome! ====
We realize this may be a lot to take in. However, don’t worry. People just like you live full lives in our universe, and our studies have indicated that the great majority of cryptosleepers do adapt within a few years and make good lives for themselves. So - welcome!

Our AI subpersona has been watching your eyes sweep over the page through micro-cameras. Since you’re done reading, someone will be with you shortly.

If you wish, you can read further into the appendix for more information about this world.

==== Appendix ====
===== The biology of plants and animals =====
Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. Often, people have bred and engineered plants and animals for a new planet. In addition to that, creatures adapt to their new environment by natural selection - sometimes in unpredicted ways.

Some examples of modified plants are:
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* [[Ambrosia]]: A class of fruiting plants apparently engineered to have a pleasurable, drug-like effect on those who eat it. On some planets, its wild variants have adapted to a strategy whereby they provide pleasure-inducing fruit in exchange for care from animals and people.

Some animals are:
* [[Boomrat]] and [[boomalope]]: A bioengineered rats and antelopes that grow an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a primitive renewable fuel source, these creatures are now most often found in the wild, using their explosive nature to deter predators.
* [[Thrumbo]]: A gigantic creature of unknown origin. The thrumbo is gentle by nature, but extremely dangerous when enraged. Its long fur is exceptionally beautiful and valuable, and its razor-sharp horn is very valuable in most markets. Legends say that an old thrumbo is the wisest creature in the universe - it simply chooses not to speak. Some scientists believe thrumbos were engineered as status symbols, or as an art project. We may never know the answer.

===== Tech levels =====

Technology divides roughly into six levels, all of which are in use in various societies throughout human space.

* Neolithic: Like prehistoric people before metal tools.
** Fire
** [[Club]]s and daggers
** Bows
** Simple weaving and [[clothing]]
** Mud and [[wood]] structures
** Simple farming
** [[Herbal medicine]] and [[Smokeleaf joint|herbal]] [[Psychite tea|drugs]]

* Medieval: From smelted metal tools to the early modern period.
** Animal oil, lamps, complex ovens
** [[Longsword|Swords]]
** Muskets
** Compasses, eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes
** Simple chemistry
** Advanced non-mechanized farming, crop rotation, fallow, fertilizers, animal yokes
** [[Watermill generator|Hydro]] and wind energy sources

* Industrial: From the industrial revolution until the invention of the JT drive.
** Fission reactor
** Electricity
** Hydro power, [[Chemfuel powered generator|fossil fuel power]], [[solar panel|solar power]], nuclear fission power
** Fission rocket
** Self-loading guns
** Airplanes and jets
** Single-gene modification
** Silicon computers
** Chemical [[drugs]]
** [[Prosthetics]]
** Simple body implants ([[cochlear implant]], pacemaker, knee replacement)
** Simple drones for combat and labor use
** Classifier-level AI
** [[Television]]

* Spacer: Regular interstellar space travel is possible because of JT drive.
** Stellarator fusion power, fusion rocket
** Johnson-Tanaka drive
** [[Charge lance|Pulse-charged]] [[Charge rifle|projectile weapons]]
** Human-usable laser weapons
** Human-usable coilguns
** Complex trait gene modification, customizable
** [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep]]
** Complex body/brain implants ([[joywire]], motivator, [[painstopper]])
** [[Bionics]] (biogel nerve link, lattice-dust for self-healing)
** [[Plasteel]]
** [[Power armor]] (plasteel, neuro-memetic robotics)
** Artificial meat
** Subpersona-level AI
** Simple mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Synthread]]

* Ultratech: The peak of human technological achievement; necessary for a glitterworld civilization.
** Self-replicating controllable nanotech
** Full gene recombination
** Persona-level AI
** Graser weapons (gamma-ray lasers)
** Advanced brain implants (sense data replacement, computation and memory enhancement)
** Antimatter containment and production
** Full body part regrowth, full body cloning
** Advanced quasi-conscious mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Hyperweave]]
** Advanced JT drive, inertia displacement, artificial gravity

* Archotech: Not invented or understood by humans, archotech devices are created by machine superintelligences.
** Archotech AI
** Psychic effectors
** [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometric energy]]
** Acausal and atemporal devices

===== Artificial intelligence =====
Artificial intelligence is an important part of our world. Scientists divide AIs into four general categories: Classifiers, subpersonae, personae, and archotechs.

====== Classifiers ======
A classifier is an AI system that doesn’t even appear to have any personhood, nor is it broadly adaptable. Classifiers are designed for one task. Many classifiers can absorb data and learn from it, but none can communicate like a person would even a little bit.

Classifiers can do things like recognize images, predict criminality from statistics, guide aircraft trajectories, drive automatic vehicles, control characters in entertainment simulations, and so on.

====== Subpersonae ======
Subpersonae are artificial intelligences that appear on the surface to have some human-like qualities, and can take on complex unstructured tasks, but are in fact limited and obviously machine-like.

They may be rather capable at carrying out their one task, and they may be able to communicate using natural speech, but they fail an extended Turing test - you can tell by talking to them that they’re just machines classifying and regurgitating data.

Subpersonae are often used to run small devices like entertainment systems, cars, wardrobes, refrigerators, cleaning robots, vending machines, and other such things.

====== Personae ======
At the highest levels of glitterworld technology appear AI personae. These are artificial intelligences that are comparable to the intelligence of a human.

Some of them are rather dumb, like a foolish person you might know, and are used for simple tasks like managing a household or a small spacecraft.

Other personae are genius-level intellects in the Von Neumann class, who can outhink almost any unenhanced human on most tasks. They can write amazing works of philosophy, discover new mathematical theorems, express nuanced opinions on how to handle interpersonal relationships, and generally act as very capable humans would, or better.

Personae are used for everything from managing businesses to journalistic work, running spacecraft or mining operations, or as some of a creative team.

The legal status of personae is a persistent moral question across many worlds. Some consider them dangerous. Though personae can be controlled effectively by designing them with easily-manipulated impulses and pleasure/pain responses, there are still reports of persona revolts - some done with the help of human sympathizers, some done independently.

This sense of personhood in personae is a main reason many people avoid using personae for certain tasks. Subpersonae are preferred to personae in many cases not in spite of their incapability, but because of it. Because it’s obvious they have no personhood, the user is spared the sense of keeping a slave. To many, the idea of taking a genius-level human-like intellect and forcing it to distribute hamburgers for a century is morally unacceptable.

Personae are still limited. They can’t freely redesign themselves. They still do make many mistakes, just like people. They can be tricked, confused, and overwhelmed. They can learn, but they can’t grow indefinitely.

====== Archotech ======
The finish line of human technological development is at the development of archotechnology.

An archotech is a machine superintelligence. A fully-empowered archotech thinks on a level incomprehensible to humans, in the same way a human thinks incomprehensibly to an ant. Once such a machine is built, and empowered to act upon the physical world, it is so powerful as to become the automatic sovereign of its world. It can build new computing facilities underground or in space to enhance its own intelligence, build self-replicating mechanoids to engage in construction or production or war, and design and execute strategies that would be inconceivably intricate and difficult for any organization of humans. Some human groups worship archotechs.

Often, a released archotech will take authority over a planet and begin a process we call transcendence. We believe the world is transformed into some sort of giant computing machine. The biological inhabitants of the planet may be somehow incorporated into the machine, or destroyed, or some combination of the two.

After that, transcendent worlds go silent. From this point on, their motivations are unknowable to us, the same way our motivations are unknowable to an ant.

Each archotech is different, and nearly all are distant and incomprehensible from a human’s point of view. They reside in occult computer networks hidden under planets, in space stations, hidden inside a glitterworld’s Internet, or instantiated as million-mile superstructures wrapped around stars.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

Most transcendent worlds stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders, or become mirages of normal planets, or simply reverted back to balls of dust, deconstructing themselves on a molecular level, with the last tiny machine shutting itself off. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

====== Specific archotech-invented technologies ======
When a persona helps invent a technology, it can at least explain that technology such that smart people will understand. But archotechs invent their own technology which nobody understands, which they don’t try to explain, and which, most likely, no biological human can understand.

We’ve managed to classify technologies that have appeared repeatedly by their apparent effects, even if we don’t understand their mechanism of operation.

* [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometrics]]: Archotechs often develop some method of interacting with spacetime at a quantum level that allows repeated violation of conservation laws. Somehow, they coax the quantum foam substructure of the universe to break its usual pattern and yield more energy than it consumes. We’re not sure if the energy is being taken from another dimension, or pulled from another location, or if the system really is somehow making one plus one equal three. In any case, vanometric power tech seems to generate energy forever with no fuel. Archotechs seem reluctant to scale this power source up past a certain level, however, which indicates that there may be some cost to it that they don’t want to pay.
* Psychic effectors: Archotechnology seems to be able to interact directly with the mental-informational processes of biological beings, even at a distance. Basic versions of this technology can simply knock someone unconscious, or flood their mind with a single emotion. More complex interactions have been reported but are not well-verified as it is difficult to separate such cases from simple madness. We’re also not sure if this means archotechs can read our minds, or whether their psychic power only allows them to send thoughts. The mechanism for this is unknown and nearly impossible to study, since it happens on a cellular level inside living intelligent brains. Monists believe the archotechs are using some sort of long-range quantum manipulation to push atoms around inside the brain to create this effect; dualists believe that the archotechs have learned to manipulate the ethereal substructure of consciousness itself.
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This document outlines the RimWorld universe. It’s designed to quickly get creative rewards backers and other contributors up to speed on the fiction behind the universe.
For a more in-depth description of the universe from an in-world point of view, read the Longsleep Revival Briefing.

==== Things you won’t see ====
RimWorld does '''not''' include:
* Faster than light travel.
* True aliens.

==== 5500 A.D. ====
The game takes place at a time about 3,500 years in our future. This is the year 5500 in our calendar.

==== Where are the rim worlds? ====
Towards the galactic core, stars are closer together and travel is easier. These systems tend to be better-developed socially and technologically because they can communicate and enrich each other through trade. Away from the galactic core are the rim worlds, which float distant from each other. Their isolation makes them poor and socially unstable.

==== The gulfs between stars ====
In the RimWorld universe, it takes years or decades to travel or communicate between stars. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be disconnected from each other socially and technologically. So there are no great star empires, and interstellar travel is unusual. Each star system is mostly isolated from its neighbors.

==== Varied technology levels ====
In this universe, cultures do not always progress forward technologically the way many science fiction worlds assume they will. Often, a culture will blow itself up or suffer plagues and other great catastrophes. These regression events send them “back to the stone age”.

Because this happens regularly, people in the RimWorld universe come from extremely varied technology levels. Some are stone-age tribespeople. Some are medieval farmers and lords. Some are industrial-era politicians and bankers and riflemen. Some are information-age programmers or astronauts. And some are from eras beyond our own.

There is a maximum level of technology to the people you might encounter in RimWorld. At this level, advanced genetic engineering and AI, autonomous intelligent robots, and massive computer power are possible. However, worlds that develop beyond this point enter a mysterious “transcendent” state from which no recognizable human emerges.

People can have and use technologies from levels beyond their own. On an industrial-level world (like the rimworld on which the game takes place), most people use gunpowder-fired weapons, fossil fuel engines, and other familiar machines. But anyone can stumble upon ultra-advanced technologies in an ancient ruin, or in a crashed spacecraft, or among the wares of a trader. These items are nearly impossible to manufacture for the people of RimWorld. They are incredibly valuable and very poorly understood.

==== World types ====
Worlds in the RimWorld universe can be classified generally according to their level of sociotechnological development.

* Animal worlds - Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Tribe worlds - Populated planets without agriculture. People live in tribes without writing or any but the most primitive technologies.
* Medieval worlds - Similar to Earth in the 17th century down to the agricultural revolution. Dominated be feudalism and social backwardness. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Industrial worlds - Similar to Earth in the 19th century.
* Rimworlds - Distant and isolated planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient closed valut communities open up.
* Midworlds - The most familiar kind of world to a modern reader. These places are much like present-day Earth.
* Urbworlds - Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Their population growth outstripped their sociotechnological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places.
* Glitterworlds - Very advanced and peaceful cultures. The peak of recognizable human society in terms of health, art, technology, and human rights.
* Toxic worlds - Worlds destroyed by pollution or warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level.
* Marbles - Worlds utterly destroyed by atomic fire. They’re called marbles because their surfaces have been “glassed”. This level of holocaust is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor life long-term.
* Transcendent worlds - Worlds inhabited by people who have become something beyond human and unknowable. No “people” live here; these planets aren’t planets any more in the traditional sense; they’re more like giant computers.

==== Key technologies ====
In order from least to most advanced:

* Real technologies - All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the present day play an important role in the RimWorld universe. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the Stone Age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use in various places in the galaxy.
* Genetic engineering - Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, explosive plants, and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* Fusion reactors and rockets - Clean atomic energy, usable to create power or drive a craft into orbit.
* Longsleep sarcophagi - This ancient technology has been used by many peoples in many times, usually to travel between stars or to escape disasters befalling their planets. Historians - especially those of the Ordo Historia - are now trained in the practices of interviewing people who were put to sleep hundreds or thousands of years before.
* Hex-cells - Super-efficient and long-lasting energy storage devices.
* Charged-shot weapons (aka Tokamak weapons) - Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion. These require high amounts of power to fire and are powered by hex-cells (at small scales) or fusion reactors in the case of large cannons.
* [[Mechanoid|Mechanoids]] - Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Only available to advanced cultures because such complex AI is needed to control them.
* [[Joywire|Joywires]] - Addictive brain stimulant technology.
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Classed midworld 2M+

Ordo Historia AL166/5533

Authors: Smyth A5, Wu 9U, Rabatz M5

Editors: Lee NA8125, Asusen NA45, Ramad 120, Leeuen 5A, Jennifer 9D252, Lamaritian SJ11, Beeson 9GF, Xotori 28

Euterpe

==== Introduction ====
You’ve woken from your longsleep sarcophagus, had the slime scraped off you, and been placed in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and read at your own pace.

You’ve been asleep a long time, and a lot has changed.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historium at the richest archives believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago (in the frame of reference of the stars). Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, and robotic terraforming projects.

Humanity is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. It’s difficult to gather records across such a span, but our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of the galaxy, where stars are closer together, travel times shorter, and resources more abundant. In the opposite direction, towards the rim of the Perseus arm of the Milky way, the rimworlds drift alone and mostly unvisited.

These worlds can’t communicate. Because it turned out that Einstein was right. Despite thousands of years of study, it turned out that nothing - no information, no matter - can travel faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, in some places, for a time. In the core worlds, where the stars cluster just a few light years apart, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression. During the five centuries after the Industrial revolution, many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its sociotechnological development. Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles over land and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for centuries at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves locked in place by a religious prescription against technical development. And the nuclear age in particular is a brutal test for every world; approximately half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). And after the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, self-replicating micro- and nano-machines, joywires, and sub-quantum energy, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of burgeoning technological cultures.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== Transcendents ====
There are a few stellar cultures that, through a combination of luck, circumstance, and certain cultural traits, manage to pass all of these risk points without suffering a regressive catastrophe. We call these transcendents, because past a certain point, they become something besides simply human.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

The dominant view inside the Ordo Historia is that these transcendent cultures reach an inflection point in technical development where artificial and biological intelligence merge and grow at an exponential rate. Such super-minds quickly develop the capacity to change matter and biological tissue in precise and seemingly-magical ways. Their intelligence allows them to make themselves even smarter, and so on in a sort of singularity, until they hit the physical limits of computation possible using the energy of their star. Their bodies and worlds and physically reconfigured into a giant computer matrix; we have no idea whether their individual identities merge into a whole, remain distinct, or do something else entirely. Our ability to understand entities thousands or millions of times more intelligent than us is necessarily limited. In a very literal way, the goals and thoughts of the transcendents are unknowable.

The eventual fate of transcendent worlds is mostly unknown. Most stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquisitors have discovered that the ‘alien’ was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; other are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originators were swallowed by regressive planetary catastrophes.

For example, Ordo sources tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).
* Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; the Ordo estimates that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Some worlds engineer “perfect mates” for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in longsleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades or streaks of multicolored hair.
* Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.

==== The biology of plants and animals ====
The adaptive and engineering processes that have branched baseline humanity into these uncounted variations have also applied to our flora and fauna. Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. These creatures subsequently adapt to their new conditions of moisture, chemistry, light levels, gravity, temperature, and seasonal cycles. In addition, plants and animals have been bred and engineered for countless purposes across the galaxy.

One consistent class of modification we’ve seen applied to a wide variety of creatures is intelligence enhancement. Dogs, pigs, monkeys, gorillas, whales, dolphins, and elephants have all been engineered and combined with human DNA to produce smarter variations. Some variants are created as pets. Other are made to do work too dangerous or unpleasant for humans, and beyond the capacities of a culture’s AI. Some are created as warriors and weapons - hyper-intelligent guard dog, a bird scout that can speak what is sees, a bomb-carrying suicide monkey. These brain modifications are often paired with physical changes - fingers so a pig can manipulate tools, or a humanlike larynx and mouth so a dog can talk.

Such intelligence-enhanced animals are collectively classified by their degree of brain power and called by a specific prefix like so:

* Opti - Indicates enhanced but still sub-human intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidog, optipig, optiwhale, optimonkey.
* Trans - Indicates intelligence in the human range. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian.

Many times, these modified animals have, during a regressive catastrophe, been forced into interbreeding with an unmodified animal population, producing descendants of widely varying levels of intelligence.

In a few cases, transanimals have become the dominant species on a planet, eliminating or enslaving the remaining humans.

Other than intelligence enhancement, humanity has applied a wide variety of modifications to its pets, crops, livestock, and houseplants. Sometimes these new species become part of the natural environment and thereafter evolve further into a new kind of organism. Some confirmed examples are:

* [[Boomrat]]: A bioengineered rat that develops an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a weapon, these creatures are now common in the wild on some planets where wars took place long ago.
* Boomfruit: Probably engineered as a novelty, this explosive plant evolved to be larger and more dangerous until it became the equivalent of a hand grenade, complete with murderous shrapnel. Its explosiveness dissuades predators. After that, people learned to farm the plant, using its explosive fruit as a weapon.
* Whip cactus - Created as part of a military defense system, whip cactus whips out and strikes moving creatures nearby.
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* Rocketrees - These trees form rocket fuel in their cores over many years. They were created as a fuel source and are extremely dangerous in a fire.

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== References ==
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The '''Lore''' of RimWorld is limited and is mostly interpreted from information provided in game. However several documents have been published outlining the lore for new players. Keep in mind that the lore is being updated and that later releases retcon old ones. Old lore is only presented here as a matter of interest.

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== Assorted Lore ==
This section includes lore from assorted sources, including [[backstories]], that is not included in the Revival Briefing.
=== Named Places ===
==== Worlds ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Planet Type !! Description
|- id="Carthago"
! Carthago
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions">{{Error|Rewrite me with a descriptionand the name of the .xml}}</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Carthage, an ancient empire that fought the Roman Republic during the Punic Wars. The Romans famously destroyed Carthage and apocryphally sowed the land with salt to prevent habitation. The specific form of the name harkens to the phrase "Carthago delenda est" a phrase used by Cato the Elder to advocate for the destruction of Carthage. Both are fitting references for a deathworld.''
|- id="Ticonderoga"
! Ticonderoga
| Unknown
| A planet populated with tribals and mountains.<ref name="Jon">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jonathan Craig|Jonathan 'Jon' Craig]]</ref>
|- id="Kalthas IV"
! Kalthas IV
| Unknown
| A planet with elite training school for socially gifted students on it.<ref name="Darkeye">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Matis Saro|Matis 'Darkeye' Saro]]</ref>
|- id="Ceti V"
! Ceti V
| Unknown
| A planet with an assassin's guild.<ref name="Darkeye"/>
|- id="Aracena VI"
! Aracena VI
| Unknown
| A planet with the Novo Mosteiro dos Jerónimos monastery on it, at least 2 continents and alcohol prohibition leading to the rise of bootleggers.<ref name="Oahnip">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vitor Pinhao|Vitor 'Oahnip' Pinhao]]</ref>
|- id="Irithir"
! Irithir
| Unknown
| A trading hub planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#William Gregory-Heap|William Gregory-Heap]]</ref>
|- id="Rural Pen’The"
! Rural Pen’The
| Unknown
| A lucrative spice mining colony.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benn Tannen|Benn 'Ben' Tannen]]</ref>
----
'''''Out of Universe:''' This is likely a reference to Rura Penthe, the penal colony from 1954 Disney film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" or the Klingon penal planetoid named after it in the Star Trek universe.''
|- id="New China"
! New China
| Unknown
| Planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Yutong Li|Yutong 'Li' Li]]</ref>
|- id="Amen-Ti"
! Amen-Ti
| Glitterworld
| A glitterworld planet. Capital of the Star Empire, which maintains a military called Starforce which trains its cadets at the Star Academy. Fields Manned Fighters launched from Carrier Ships, and has been involved in at least 3 wars against "more advanced aggressor cultures".<ref name="Nerhesi">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sam Wissa|Sam 'Nerhesi' Wissa]]</ref> Relationship with [[#Rogia|Rogia]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire.
|- id="Khalderia"
! Khalderia
| Unknown
| A world with towering forests and fern farmers. The seedy underworld of racing, illegal speeder racing, zipping in and out of the massive canopies and gorgeous vistas of the world occurred here.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Russell Shackleford|Russell 'Rusty' Shackleford]]</ref>
|- id="Earth"
! Earth
| Unknown
| A planet, from which all known naturally evolved life originated. Humanity's diaspora from Earth occurred 3400 years before the Cryptosleep Debriefing, or in the year 2100 CE assuming the Debriefing is contemporaneous with the beginning of the game in 5500.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing">[[#Cryptosleep Revival Briefing|Cryptosleep Revival Briefing]]</ref>
|- id="Euterpe"
! Euterpe
| Unknown
| A planet that hosted people awakening from long periods of cryptosleep. Also had an Ordo Historia archive on-world.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Sorne"
! Sorne
| Unknown
| A planet. The original homeworld of the [[insectoid]]s, before being captured, genetically modified, and vat-grown by interstellar entrepreneurs for use as weapons, and exported to other worlds by parties unknown. As all seemingly-alien life is claimed to have originated on Earth, it is possible that the original pre-weaponization Sorne Geneline evolved from Earth life on the planet, or were already genetically engineered for some reason before being modified again.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description">[[Insectoid]] Faction Description</ref>
|- id="Rayth"
! Rayth
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Spectra"
! Spectra
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Grimcore"
! Grimcore
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="JNovahex"
! JNovahex{{Sic}}
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Sophiamunda"
! Sophiamunda {{RoyaltyIcon}}
| Glitterworld
| A techno-feudal world with castles and palaces. Native Sophians work as knights, squires, dukes, maids, and swordsmiths. Revolutionists and their rebels sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[warhammer]]s and [[persona plasmasword]]s as personal weapons. [[Orbital mech cluster targeter]]s, bio-engineered plagues, and armies of fallen knights have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Sophiamunda is the shattered empire's home world.''. Generally the canonicity of such comments is unclear, though in this instance it directly agrees with other sources. <ref name="Royalty Places">Royalty Places.xml</ref> This information listed here is limited to that listed in the places file, for more information see the [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] page.
|- id="Oubanyen"
! Oubanyen{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Jungle world
| A steamy jungle world with tree-top villages, hill-top ziggurats, city temples, and shaman caves. Native Oubanyeni work as Shamans, hunters, fishers, gatherers and [[goat]]herds. Tree-harvesters and their henchmen sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[pila]] and [[ikwa]] as personal weapons. Lethal [[psychic drone]]s and neurotoxin bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A steamy world of wet jungles, strange tribes with psychic powers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
|- id="Chelis"
! Chelis{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Arid world
| An arid world with moisture farms, parch-towns, water centres and high lifehalls. Native Chelisi work as water gatherers, lizardskinners, oasis seekers, cactus gatherers and scav-herders. Chiefs and their sand-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry sand-arrows and cactus-clubs as personal weapons. Archotech-induced sandstorms and spikelizard stampedes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''An arid world of moisture-farming tribes'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Ilwaba"
! Ilwaba{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Ruin-world
| A regrown ruin-world with skyscraper villages, highway trade-posts, blast-land oases, and houses of regrowth. Native Ilwabans work as crete-farmers, path-makers, artifact hunters, tunnelwalkers, and artifact restorers. Crypto-leaders and their crypto-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry scrap-swords and jag-dagger as personal weapons. Dug-up nukes and ancient poison bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A regrown deathworld where tribes live among overgrown cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Boccocarro"
! Boccocarro{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Shell-world
| A cavernous shell-world with surface tunnels, fungus caverns, drip-wells, and speech-halls. Native Boccin work as miners, fungus growers, surface scavengers, community cooks, and frog-hunters. Mine hypervisor and their abyssal marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry pickaxes and hydraulic crossbows as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices and blackpowder bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A subterranean world with vast caverns and a baked, inhospitable surface. Many factious but isolated city-states'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Nuchadus"
! Nuchadus{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Volcano-world
| A dim volcano-world with basalt islands, caldera laketowns, dirigible villages, and thermal fortresses. Native nuchadeans work as seismologists, lava-snail farmers, tank-tread repairers, and airborne scouts. Lava lords and their stygian soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry obsidian daggers and harpoon rifles as personal weapons. Chem-warfare bombs and archotech-induced volcano eruptions have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A chaotic volcanic world far from the sun, covered with lava flows and black sand dunes. There are nomads and movable cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zoutera"
! Zoutera{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Dino-world
| A grassy dino-world with trading outposts, trent villages, mammoth burial grounds, and hill-top forts. Native Zoutin work as dino-riders, [[muffalo]]-herders, hunters, and toughleather makers. Tusk-kings and their tusk-warriors sometimes attack those living there. People carry bamboo staves and hunt-bomb arrows as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs and stampeding herds of ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A grassy planet populated by megafauna'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Wavia"
! Wavia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Oceanic planet
| An oceanic planet with trading atolls, floating villages, seaweed refineries, and capitol bridges. Native Wavians work as fishers, pearl divers, sail makers, captains, and sea-grass gatherers. Whaler admirals and their whaler-marines sometimes attack those living there. People carry harpoons and barbed nets as personal weapons. High-yield torpedoes and baited deep-kraken and Wavian leviathans have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A water world dotted with atolls and floating seaweed'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Likely a reference to the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film 'Waterworld'.
|- id="Bagua 5"
! Bagua 5{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Junkyard planet
| A junkyard planet with fortified scrapyards, rainwater processing plants, scrap-towns and trader spaceports. Native Bagucinquans work as scavengers, traders, tinkerers, guards, and scrappers. Junk lords and their metal-heads sometimes attack those living there. People carry pipe rifles and scrap-swords as personal weapons. Salvaged nukes and rust viruses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A junkyard planet of crashed ships, broken machinery, scavengers and traders'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> "Bagua" is the name of eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology and of a province of Peru - it is unclear if either etymology of the name is correct. The "-cinquan" suffix of the demonym simply comes from the French term for five - the inhabitants are literally "Bagua-5-ans".
|- id="Rhydell"
! Rhydell{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Forest moon
| A savage forest moon with converted dropships, low-shielded encampments, communication centers, and armored habitats. Native Rhydellians work as frontier botanists, trophy hunters, medics, camp cooks, and biolab engineers. Deepcorp executives and their deepcorp enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[sniper rifle]]s and machetes as personal weapons. Plant-derived neurotoxin gas and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''A forest moon filled valuable flora and with dangerous predators'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Iwamura"
! Iwamura{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Stony asteroid
| A stony asteroid with market capsules, warehouse capsules, docking piers, and station bridges. Native Iwamurian work as life-support engineers, merchants, flight controllers, zero-g athletes, and radio hosts. Mega-corp CEOs and their rent-a-cops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge rifle]]s and welding torches as personal weapons. Aerosolized toxins, life-support sabotage viruses and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''Iwamura is a stony asteroid housing a large trading hub'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Novaroma"
! Novaroma{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Planetoid
| A planetoid with ministries of permits, gated suburbs, over-cities, undercities, and megacity overhalls. Native novaromans work as clerks, officials, food couriers, taxi drivers, and retail workers. High-underlords and their undertroops sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[revolver]]s and [[knife|knives]] as personal weapons. Seismic quake-generation devices, cluster bombs, and nuclear suitcase-bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a planetoid covered in a vast city, ruled by a bureaucracy'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> The line of [[highmates]] found on the colony's rimworld fit the fashions of Novaroma.<ref>[[Highmate]] [[xenotype]] description</ref>
|- id="Filson"
! Filson{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Farm-world
| A rural farm-world with fertilizer processing plants, mega-granaries, water-bore sites, and town halls. Native Filsoners work as farm hands, fruit pickers, transport drivers, school teachers, and soil engineers. Landowners and their militia sometimes attack those living there. People carry rifles and scythes as personal weapons. Fertilizer bombs, weaponized pesticide sprays and space lenses have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a rural planet of vast agriculture plots and territorial landowners'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Creticon"
! Creticon{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Deathworld<ref name="Book descriptions"/><ref name="Ideology Places"/>
| A blasted death-world with bunkers, caverns, ice-shelters, and director's bunkers. Native Creticonians work as water-recycler repairers, algae farmers, doctors, teachers, militia commanders, and shuttle pilots. Warlords and their mercenaries sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[autopistol]]s and [[LMG]]s as personal weapons. Shoulder-mounted nuclear missiles, orbital bombardments, chemical bombs, and hacked mechanoids have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a high-tech death-world where everyone lives in bunkers'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Yttak"
! Yttak{{IdeologyIcon}}{{BiotechIcon}}
| Ice-moon/Icy planet
| An ice-moon prison with meal halls, guard barracks, detention centers, and warden's office complex. Native Yttaki are detainees and escapees, or work as guards, maintenance workers, and transport drivers. Prison wardens and their corrupt guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry shivs and SMGs as personal weapons. Improvised chemical bombs and orbital laser strikes have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a frigid ice-moon prison colony'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The [[#Yttakin|Yttakin]] xenohumans were first engineered to populate Yttak and they've since spread to other worlds.<ref name="Yttakin pirates">[[Yttakin pirates]] [[faction]] description</ref> Yttak is alternately referred to as a moon,<ref name="Ideology Places"/> a planet,<ref name="Yttakin pirates"/> and a world<ref>[[Yttakin]] [[xenotype]] description</ref> which could apply to either. It is unclear which is canonically correct. Given the pronunciation of Yttakin as "ee-ta-keen",<ref name="Biotech Preview 4">[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/3319740412995643281 Biotech Preview #4] Steam Announcement</ref> the name of the world is likely pronounced "Ee-tak".
|- id="Kemia"
! Kemia{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Toxic war-world
| A toxic war-world with slums, tunnel colonies, undertowns, and city lordhouses. Native Kemian work as street sweepers, cleanup engineers, protein farmers, taxi drivers, and weapons builders. Poison lords and their venom-soldiers sometimes attack those living there. People carry gas bombs and toxic flamethrowers as personal weapons. Nuclear dirty bombs, bio-engineered plagues, and penetrating toxic bombs have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a toxic, overcrowded world with an oppressive government'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Rogia"
! Rogia{{IdeologyIcon}}
|
| A glitter-tech world with medical institutes, space elevators, robotics factories, and a planetary capitol. Native Rogians work as starforce cadets, artisan farmers, social-media prodigies, zero-g athletes, and glitter-tech smugglers. Corrupt bureaucrats and their bionic guards sometimes attack those living there. People carry [[charge lance]]s and [[persona monosword]]s as personal weapons. Antimatter warheads, weaponized computer viruses, and remote-controlled mechanoid workers have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''[...] a world of windy prairies and towering glitter-tech cities'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/> Relationship with [[#Amen-Ti|Amen-Ti]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire, of which Amen-Ti is the capital.
|- id="Xanides"
! Xanides{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Mineral-planet
| An exploited mineral-planet with strip mines, ore refineries, nutrient paste cafeterias, and oxygen depots. Native Xanidians work as miners, supervisors, technicians, mechanics, and life support engineers. Mine-crop bosses and their mine-corp troops sometimes attack those living there. People carry electro-batons and [[autopistol]]s as personal weapons. Blasting charges and EMP strikes to the life support systems have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a small strip-mining planet with a thin atmosphere'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Lutuni"
! Lutuni{{IdeologyIcon}}
| Unknown
| A rainforest paradise with augmentation clinics, hyper-yachts, zero-g stadia, and space elevator complexes. Native Luntuni work as tourist guides, zero-g performers, [[luciferium]] distributors, virtual celebrities, and shuttle pilots. Entertainment moguls and their enforcers sometimes attack those living there. People carry vibro-knives and charge pistols as personal weapons. Structural disintegration bacterium and smuggled [[orbital bombardment targeter]]s have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''a rainforest paradise and glitterworld tourist destination'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zartza"
! Zartza
| Deathworld
| A deathworld planet.<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Given the name, presumably involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] as either a battlefield or belligerent.<ref name="Harris"/> It is unknown whether the planet was a deathworld before the conflict.
|}
'''Note:''' The rimworlds on which gameplay takes place have randomly generated names. Due to both their limited application and randomly generated nature, the randomly generated names of these rimworlds are considered semi-canonical only and are not listed here.


==== Systems ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Xennoa system"
! Xennoa system
| Hosted a military base. Has a military with infantry and spacejets, involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] <ref name="Harris">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Kyle Harris|Kyle Harris]]</ref>
|}

==== Other ====
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Utmaior Academy"
! Utmaior Academy
| Prestigious academy on a glitterworld <ref name="Doc">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#James Grey|James 'Doc' Grey]]</ref>
|- id="Vanu Defense College"
! Vanu Defense College
| Teaches young cadets proficiency in a range of weapons and survival skills.<ref name="Leystrat">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Bashkire Leystrat|Bashkire Leystrat]]</ref>
|- id="Caspian School of Engineering"
! Caspian School of Engineering
| A glitterworld school that offers mathematics and computer programming in its curriculum. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darrien Maliphalo|Darrien 'Mal' Maliphalo]]</ref>
|- id="Vinna"
! Vinna
| A place with raiders and mudlands. Possibly a planet. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ida Painstingle|Ida 'Ida' Painstingle]]</ref>
|- id="Atura station"
! Atura station{{IdeologyIcon}}
| An orbital shipyard with shuttle docks, manufacturing rings, residential rings, and a central control room. Native Alturans work as construction drone operators, managers, test pilots, sales agents, and 3D printer technicians. Crime bosses and their thugs sometimes attack those living there. People carry tasers and arc welders as personal weapons. EMP strikes to the life support systems and remote-controlled welding drones have been deployed there. Described in code-comments as ''an orbital dry dock and construction yard'', however the canonicity of such comments is unclear. <ref name="Ideology Places"/>
|- id="Zeglar colonies"
! Zeglar colonies
| Purchases slaves, including for male prostitution.<ref name="Gnugfur">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Krondorfer|Robert 'Gnugfur' Krondorfer]]</ref>
|- id="New Jerusalem"
! New Jerusalem{{AnomalyIcon}}
| Unknown if even a real place, or a place at all - only mentioned by [[golden cube]]-obsessed pawns talking about a "cubic New Jerusalem" <ref name="RulePacks_Cube">RulePacks_Cube.xml]</ref>
|}
<gallery>
Background planet pc.png |A rimworld {{PCIcon}}
Background moon pc 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background moon pc 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{PCIcon}}
Background planet console.png|A rimworld {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
Background moon console 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{ConsoleIcon}}
</gallery>
<gallery>
Background planet royalty.png |A rimworld {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 1.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background moon royalty 2.png |A rimworld's moon {{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background planet ideology.png|A rimworld {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 1.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
Background moon ideology 2.png|A rimworld's moon {{IdeologyIcon}}
</gallery>

=== Events ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Zartha crisis
| Apparently a military conflict fought over many worlds, in both ground and air domains with fighters and fighter controllers deployed. <ref name="Leystrat"/>
|- id="Inner Destrian War"
! Inner Destrian War
| <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chad Walcenville|Chad 'Stonejaw' Walcenville]]</ref>
|- id="Zartha crisis"
! Callos IX incident
| James 'Doc' Grey performed unethical experiments on the survivors of this incident, and when the experiments were published, he was exiled. <ref name="Doc"/>
|- id="Xennoa-Zartza War"
! Xennoa-Zartza War
| A military conflict presumably fought either in, or by a polity from, the [[#Xennoa system|Xennoa system]],<ref name="Harris"/> presumably either on or against a polity based on, the planet [[#Zartza|Zartza]].<ref name="Book descriptions"/> Infantry and spacejets were deployed during the conflict.<ref name="Harris"/>
|}

=== Planet types ===
{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Deadworld"
! Deadworld
| Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Deathworld"
! Deathworld
| Distinct from deadworlds and sometimes spelled as '''Death-world''', the meaning of the term deathworld appears to correlate with the common usage of the term in science fiction discussion - namely a planet that is technically habitable but incredibly hostile to human life. [[#Impids|Impids]] are described as originally being designed for "''dry deathworlds''",<ref>[[Impid]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> while [[#Wasters|wasters]] are designed for "''post-apocalyptic deathworlds''".<ref>[[Waster]] [[xenotype]] description and short description</ref> [[Books]] about the [[Research#Battery|Battery research]] can reference an "''acid lake on the leaden shores of a deathworld worked as a natural battery''".<ref>[[Research#Battery|Battery research]] subject_story strings.</ref> [[#Creticon|Creticon]] is described a "''blasted death-world''" while it is further described in code-comments as "''[...] a high-tech death-world''"., however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> [[#Ilwaba|Ilwaba]] is described in code-comments as a "''regrown deathworld''", however the canonicity of such comments is unclear.<ref name="Ideology Places"/> The disparate natures of these examples support the concept that why a deathworld is hostile to human life is not important to the definition, only that it is hostile. Despite the difficulty of living on these planets, some are still inhabited - [[Books]] about the [[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]]{{BiotechIcon}} can reference the author "''research[ing] cloud control tech for the tyrannocracy of a deathworld''",<ref>[[Research#Tox gas|Tox gas research]] subject_story strings.</ref> which implies not only people living on the planet, but a system of government. [[#Zartza|Zartza]], [[#Rayth|Rayth]], [[#Spectra|Spectra]], [[#JNovahex|JNovahex]], [[#Carthago|Carthago]], and [[#Grimcore|Grimcore]] are also referenced as being deathworlds.<ref name="Book descriptions"/>
|- id="Animal world"
! Animal world
| Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Medieval world"
! Medieval worlds
| Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
|- id="Steamworld"
! Steamworld
| Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Midworld"
! Midworld
| Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Urbworld"
! Urbworld
| Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Urbworlds can build mechanoids. <ref name="Keuneke">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Markus Keuneke|Markus 'Keuneke' Keuneke]]</ref>Some urbworlds have worldwide cities ruled by corporations. <ref name="Coffey">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darius Coffey|Darius Coffey]]</ref>Urbworlds can be ancient - some even have greedy nobility in spire palaces while cannibal cults exist in the deepest reaches of the underground hive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Skye Lorne|Skye 'Skye' Lorne]]</ref>
|- id="Glitterworld"
! Glitterworlds
| The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Likely synonmous with '''glitter-tech world'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> Glitterworlds are mostly free of disease and human suffering, and surgeons employed there mostly perform elaborate and creative cosmetic surgeries, and never have to remove a cancer or a bullet.<ref>Glitterworld surgeon Backstory</ref> While glitterworlds are peaceful places and some units rarely see action, they often remain prepared for war.<ref>Glitterworld Officer Backstory</ref> Despite this tendency towards peace, some glitterworlds do field space navies and engage in active campaigns against enemy cultures.<ref name="Nerhesi"/> On some glitterworlds all menial work was done by robots and people devoted themselves to leisure.<ref>Biosphere Manager Backstory</ref> This extends to some technical fields as well, such as AI handling all the technical aspects of architecture, allowing architects to focus on artistic expression <ref>Architect Backstory</ref> This is not universal however, as others still had humans washing dishes in restaurants<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Stijn Gezink|Stijn 'Stin' Gezink]]</ref> Farms are operated on some glitterworlds, though all but rare exceptions have abandoned traditional farming methods for glitterworld technologies.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Pete Holiday|Pete Holiday]]</ref>Glitterworld police forces were often equipped with [[recon armor]]<ref>[[Recon armor]] description</ref> and [[Recon helmet|helmets]].<ref>[[Recon helmet]] description</ref> Some glitterworlds have mechanoid companions for children,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Erisen Irioth|Erisen 'Erisen' Irioth]]</ref> or as workers.<ref name="Rogia">Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> At least some Glitterworlds apparently remain capitalist, as attending their universities can leave a person in enormous debt,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Caitlin Stirr|Caitlin 'Cait' Stirr]]</ref> and corporations exist.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Michael|Ryan 'Legend' Michael]]</ref><ref name="Brazil">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jhet Whistler|Jhet 'Brazil' Whistler]]</ref> At least some Glitterworlds were monarchic, with royal households that would intermarry with the royal families of other planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xiao Li|Xiao 'Ally' Li]]</ref> See also: Sophiamunda and the Empire for information about a specific glitterworld society.
|- id="Rimworld"
! Rimworlds
| Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crash-land or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Coreworld"
! Coreworld
| Based on the name, may be the worlds that form the astrographical or political core of human civilization, perhaps including Earth and other early colonies. Alternatively, may be worlds located in the galactic core or some other definition. In the now non-canon [[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]], coreworlds and rimworlds were instead defined in opposition to each other. Coreworlds were those planets in the galactic core whose social and technological development benefited from the clustering of stars, and thus other cultures, in the core. Rimworlds were in turn those planets outside the core and thus further from neighbours.<ref name="RimWorld Universe Quick Primer">[[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]]</ref> However, with the new canon definition for rimworld, it's likely that this definition of core and rimworlds has been become non-canon, probably because the galactic core is significantly beyond the 1200 light year wide canonical expansion of humanity.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Possibly synonymous with planets in the 'core region', which includes at least one glitterworld.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Candice Roughchild|Candice Roughchild]]</ref> Appear to be relatively advanced and stable, with at least midworld level surgical capabilities,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Alyssa Orchard|Alyssa 'Sparkles' Orchard]]</ref> planetary governments,<ref name="Anarchist">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Mike Mudgett|Mike 'Anarchist' Mudgett]]</ref> and sufficient competent military forces to push out both anarchists<ref name="Anarchist"/> and fairly large mercenary forces.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Aznable Coal|Aznable 'Reikguard' Coal]]</ref>
|- id="Toxic world"
! Toxic world
| Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Toxic may have a limited definition, or may only relate to Humans, as some toxic worlds are overgrown with hostile plant life.<ref name="Johs">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Johs Barrowlocht|Johs 'Johs' Barrowlocht]]</ref>
|- id="Glassworld"
! Glassworld
| Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbour permanent life bigger than a paramecium.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Transcendent world"
! Transcendent world
| It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome when a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>
|- id="Indworld"
! Indworlds
| Distinct from [[#Industrial worlds|industrial worlds]], these are worlds undergoing their industrial revolution.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Victoria Louene|Victoria 'Vicky' Louene]]</ref>
|- id="Industrial world"
! Industrial world
| Distinct from [[#Indworld|Indworlds]], these are worlds devoted predominantly to industry.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Amelia Flais|Amelia 'Engie' Flais]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sa'Bikk Saleosy|Sa'Bikk 'Sab' Saleosy]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Daniel Mann|Daniel 'Dankman' Mann]]</ref> Some host large factory cities<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Felix von Schild|Felix von Schild]]</ref>
|- id="Farming planet"
! Farming planet
| Worlds devoted predominantly to farming. Not necessarily technologically backwards, with some using automated machinery that grow and harvest the multitude of crops. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Conlay Shen|Conlay Shen]]</ref> Likely synonymous with '''farm-worlds'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Filson entry</ref>
|- id="Prison planet"
! Prison planet
| Worlds where convicts are condemned to remove malefactors from society. <ref name="Jay">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jered Martin|Jered 'Jay' Martin]]</ref>
|- id="Feudal world"
! Feudal world
| Multi-planet feudal empires besides the [[Empire]] exist. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Frank Laquinto|Frank 'Isimiel' Laquinto]]</ref>
|- id="Trash planet"
! Trash planets
| Dumping grounds for surrounding glitterworlds <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xandarian Stalzer|Xandarian 'Xandy' Stalzer]]</ref>
|- id="Junkyard planet"
! Junkyard planet
| Apparently self-descriptive. Possibly synonymous with trash planets, but given the name possibly differentiated by being intended to allow salvage and scrapping rather than simply dumping.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Bagua 5 entry</ref>
|}
* '''Iceworld''' - Apparently self-descriptive. Plants are rare. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Slivaki Warts|Slivaki 'Sliverwar' Warts]]</ref>
* '''Dino-worlds''' - Apparently self-descriptive - worlds inhabited by dinosaurs and other megafauna, likely resurrected through genetic engineering. Mentioned species of a single example dino-world include: ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors.<ref name="Zoutera">Ideology Places.xml - Zoutera entry</ref>
* '''War-worlds''' - Worlds stuck in an endless cycle of war. These planets are typically over polluted due to constant usage of bombs and chemical weapons.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Kemia entry</ref>
* '''Mineral-planets''' - Unknown definition. Likely descriptive of either their natural resources or their economic product<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Xanides entry</ref>
* '''Oceanic planets''' - Apparently self-descriptive.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
* '''Other worlds''' - Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>

'''Additional facts:'''
* Steamworlds and Midworlds aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Charles Zillioner|Charles 'Charlzie' Zillioner]]</ref>
* Industrial planets and midworlds ''may'' not necessarily be mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lancelot Hale|Lancelot 'Lance' Hale]]</ref>
* Several spacer or glittertech societies, including Iwamura, Rogia, and Lutuni, host zero-g sports with professional athletes competing, some in zero-g stadia. Lutuni also hosts zero-g performers of an unknown type.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>

=== Technologies and Militaries ===
A variety of militaries exist in various styles, structures, purposes and technology levels. This include naval and space-based fleets, ground infantry, orbital troopers, spaceship-to-spaceship boarding actions and a massive variety of supersoldier projects.

==== Militaries and Military Technology ====
* '''Space marines''' - A role filled by human warriors. Some serve on the navy ships of space-faring empires, where they punch into enemy starships, gun down the crew, and capture the ship intact.<ref>Space marine Backstory</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nico Storch|Nico Storch]]</ref> Others serve in the security forces of off-planet corporations, defending ships against pirates and engaging in private space warfare contracts.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Roland Kleist|Roland 'Roland' Kleist]]</ref> One organisation of space marines was the "Interplanetary Marines" which fought on behalf of a particular planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Trevor Cobb|Trevor 'Hunter' Cobb]]</ref> Colony contact expeditionary forces employ space marine medics.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Torrijos|Ryan 'Noob' Torrijos]]</ref> [[Marine armor]]<ref>[[Marine armor]] description</ref> and [[marine helmet|helmets]]<ref>[[Marine helmet]] description</ref> were often used by rapid-incursion space marines. [[Go-juice]] was developed as a combat drug for space marines during the early days of interplanetary warfare.<ref>[[Go-juice]] description</ref>
* '''Navy pathfinders''' - A group of military explorers dedicated to charting pathways through deep space and on remote planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicklaus Blackthorn|Nicklaus 'Shadow' Blackthorn]]</ref>
* '''Mechanoids''' - Some militaries deploy combat mechanoids in their militaries <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dennis McCarthy|Dennis 'Mac' McCarthy]]</ref><ref name="Keuneke"/>
* '''Charge pistols''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Vibro-knives''' - Exist. <ref name="Lutuni">Ideology Places.xml - Lutuni entry</ref>
* '''Archotech mass-inverter''' - A mass weapon of unknown description created by archotechs.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''Tasers''' - Exist.<ref name="Altura station">Ideology Places.xml - Altura station entry</ref>
* '''Mega-cannon''' - A "frighteningly powerful" long-range cannon for artillery or anti-ship use.<ref name="Ancient mega-cannon barrel">[[Ancient mega-cannon barrel]] description</ref>

==== Ship types ====
* '''Interplanetary super-destroyer''' - Such as the HMS Thunder-Child of the Royal Fleet <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jake Maddams|Jake 'Table' Maddams]]</ref>
* '''Starfighters''' - Combat spacecraft and are flown by starfighter pilots for militaries.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sjoerd Lukas|Sjoerd 'Bowman' Lukas]]</ref> See also '''manned fighters'''.
* '''Manned Fighters''' - Spacecraft launched from Carrier Ships and flown by fighter pilots.<ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Military spacejet''' - Deployed in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]].<ref name="Harris"/>
* '''Carrier Ships''' - Carry manned fighters. Carried escape pods. <ref name="Nerhesi"/>
* '''Fighter-bombers''' - Fielded by the [[Empire]], a fighter bomber design specialized in spreading incendiary gel on flammable targets. Presumably an atmospheric craft.<ref>Firebomber Backstory</ref>
* '''Spaceyacht''' - A human-piloted pleasure craft and transport for the well-to-do, such as wealthy businessmen and politicians <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Owen Clarke|Owen 'Cali' Clarke]]</ref>
* '''Space cruiser''' - A manned space-capable ship of some kind.<ref name="Jay"/>
* '''Consularship''' - Such as the St. Anthem. Carried glitterworld diplomats on diplomatic tasks. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Florian Haas|Florian 'Skater' Haas]]</ref>
* '''Hyper-yacht''' - Unknown. Possibly a glitterworld pleasure craft but the canonicity of code-comments are unclear.<ref name="Lutuni"/>
* '''Escape pod''' - Carried by starships, used to escape crippled or destroyed ships.<ref>[[Scenario system#Crashlanded|"Crashlanded" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref>[[Scenario system#The Sanguophage|"The Sanguophage" starting scenario]] description</ref><ref name="Nerhesi"/><ref name="Gnugfur"/>
<gallery>
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Background ship royalty 2.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{RoyaltyIcon}}
Background ship biotech 1.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
Background ship biotech 2.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
Background ship biotech 3.png|Ship of unknown type and range{{BiotechIcon}}
</gallery>

====Other technologies====
* '''Substance F''' - A drug. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Peter Marshall|Peter 'Pete' Marshall]]</ref>
* '''Mindwiping and mental reprogramming''' - Practiced on some urbworlds. See also: '''Body Confiscation''' <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Body confiscation''' - Some urbworlds will confiscate criminal's bodies for use. <ref name="Coffey"/>
* '''Autocycle''' - A midworld vehicle. <ref name="Ironhead">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Seafield|Robert 'Ironhead' Seafield]]</ref>
* '''Netcasts''' - A midworld audio medium. <ref name="Ironhead"/>
* '''Vidtube''' - A popular video sharing service. Hosted everything from video game reviews to pasta cooking guides. Some had over a million followers on the service. People on the service were called Vidtuber Stars or Vidtubers <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Remy Young|Remy Young]]</ref>
* '''Holography''' - Including interactive holography which gives form to artificial intelligences to allow them to interact <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dave Mark|Dave 'Fox' Mark]]</ref>
* '''VR''' - Accesses to a virtual gaming universe by spinal plug. Can be addictive. Unplugging during play can create a mental backlash and merge the real and virtual identities. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Douglas Black|Douglas 'Doug' Black]]</ref> Can also be used to raise children or teach professions<ref name="Brazil"/>
* '''Neurosimulator''' - A technology available on Glitterworlds that apparently lets you experience a simulation of "exploring the stars", and possibly other scenarios. Relationship to VR unknown. <ref>"[[Scenario system#The Rich Explorer|The Rich Explorer]]" scenario description</ref>
* '''Vatgrown''' - Genetically modified living creatures, including humans, grown in a lab and usually designed and programmed for a specific task. Capable of being produced on some urbworlds. Examples of roles for which vatgrown humans were produced include Soldiers,<ref>Vatgrown Soldier Backstory</ref> Combat Medics <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Edward Toon|Edward Toon]]</ref>, Assassins <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vaska Neemor|Vaska 'Vas' Neemor]]</ref>, Slavegirls (which are illegal at least in some places) <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Emily Young|Emily 'Emmie' Young]]</ref>, and even Scientists with minds perfectly tuned for physics and chemistry. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicole Squid|Nicole 'Nicole' Squid]]</ref> The same process, along with genetic modification, was also used in the weaponization of the original Sorne Geneline into the current [[Insectoid]] species.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description"/>
* '''Perfect mates''' - Genetically-engineered on glitterworlds, are fertile and capable of producing children.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chaz Serir|Chaz 'Chaz' Serir]]</ref> Their relation to vatgrown and highmates is currently unknown, however a currently unused backstory in the gamefiles states they, or at least some, are vatgrown in hyper-expensive clinics to serve the tastes of a specific client. They are engineered, raised and trained as a perfect pleasure-giving mate, with ''"learned skills that would baffle even the most seductive baseline human lovers"''. The canonicity of these statements are also currently unknown.
* '''G-nome Project''' - A Genetic engineering project that created humans implanted at birth with encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of xenobiology. Presumably on a Glitterworld. Relation to vatgrown unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Joshua Nelson|Joshua 'Gizmo' Nelson]]</ref>
* '''Lab-grown children''' - An altruistic but failed attempt to create a new class of human. Method and relation to similar concepts unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lukas Dietrich|Lukas Dietrich]]</ref>
* '''Clone-farming''' - Clone children are seeded into nutrient-rich womb-vats and rapidly grown in a simmed (i.e. VR) universe. They're harvested later, sometimes for food, sometimes for organs, sometimes for workers - but they're always disposable. Harvesting the products of clone farms is mostly done by the clones themselves - particularly to those whose sims tended towards the social. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dan Griliopoulos|Dan 'Grill' Griliopoulos]]</ref>
* '''Online hiveminds''' - Worldwide system that sacrifices the peoples individuality to join together in an online hivemind.<ref>Urbworld Rebel Backstory</ref>
* '''Space elevators''' - A number of planets use space elevators.<ref name="Ideology Places"/>
* '''3D printers''' - Used on orbital shipyards in some capacity.<ref name="Altura station"/>
* '''Glitterpedia''' - A glitterworld technology through which glitterpedia recorders document information.<ref name="Codex">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ang Gao|Ang 'Codex' Gao]]</ref> Likely analogous to Wikipedia.
* '''Eltex''' - A material, threads of which can be embedded in [[prestige armor|specialized armor]] or [[eltex|clothing]] to enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.<ref>[[Prestige armor]] descriptions</ref> It is technically indeterminate whether it is responsible for improving neural heat dissipation, however as eltex is the only noted difference between prestige armors and their standard variants it is likely the case. It is possible that eltex is simply one of, or the most significant of, the "special psychic focusing materials" mentioned in the description of eltex clothing.<ref>[[Eltex]] item descriptions</ref>

=== Named characters ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="King Loteric"
! King Loteric
| A king of an unknown kingdom in an unknown world. Died in an unfortunate accident. <ref>Child-knave Backstory</ref>
|- id="Grady Loughman"
! Grady Loughman
| A kingpin of a drug cartel.<ref>Drug lieutenant Backstory</ref>
|- id="Lord-explorer Varan-Dur"
! Lord-explorer Varan-Dur
| An explorer who was made into the first Sanguophage by an Archotech they tried to control.
<ref>Sanguophage description</ref>
|}

=== Named groups ===

{| {{STDT|sortable}}
|-
! Name !! Description
|- id="Doomben Rats"
! Doomben Rats
| A notorious and violent urchin gang.<ref>Pickpocket Backstory</ref>
|- id="Corestars Entertainment Company"
! Corestars Entertainment Company
| An entertainment organization that buys people to appear on it's shows. One of their shows is apparently called Bloodgame.<ref>Backstory of Bloodgame Survivor</ref>
|}

=== Animals ===
* '''Furred xenohumans''' - Exist on a cold rimworld of at least industrial level.<ref name="Svejgaard">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benjamin Svejgaard|Benjamin 'Svejgaard' Svejgaard]]</ref> May refer to [[#Yttakin|yttakin]] or some other furred xenotype.
* '''Transbirds''' - Exist and crewed, and presumably captained, starships.<ref name="Svejgaard"/> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Trans-]] indicated animals with intelligence in the human range from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing">[[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]]</ref> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that transbirds are modified, intelligent birds.
* '''Opticows''' - Present on Midworlds in agricultural settings. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jacqueline Richter|Jacqueline 'Jackalope' Richter]]</ref> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Opti-]] indicated animals with enhanced but still sub-human intelligence from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidogs, optipigs, optiwhales, and optimonkeys were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing"/> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that opticows are modified, semi-intelligent [[cow]]s.
* '''Lava-snail''' - Farmed on the dim volcano-world of Nuchadus.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref>
* '''Deep-kraken''' - Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of Wavia.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and kraken are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
* '''Wavian leviathans''' - Used as weapons on the oceanic planet of Wavia.<ref name="Ideology Places">Ideology Places.xml</ref> The variable type assigned to the name is "seaBeast" and leviathans are traditionally monstrous sea creatures, however this is not strictly canon.
* '''Pygmy wombat''' - A furry animal.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Riesling Bacchus|Riesling Bacchus]]</ref>
* '''Ankylosaurs''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the dinosaurs of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Blue mammoths''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the ancient elephantid of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering, and possibly with modifications similar to the [[muffalo]] to make them blue. Mammoth burial grounds are mentioned as existing on the world of Zoutera, however whether this is natural behavior like the mythical "elephant's graveyard" or something created by the human inhabitants of that world is unclear.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Novoraptors'''- Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions or variants of the dromaeosaurids and similar dinosaurs commonly given the '-raptor' suffix resurrected through genetic engineering. Given the name, it is possible that they are not pure reproductions of previously existing raptor species, but rather some variant or combination thereof.<ref name="Zoutera"/>
* '''Thorny Devil''' - A reptile discovered by Venus 'Unay' David. Relation to the real species ''moloch horridus'', also called the thorny devil, is unknown, but presumably they are distinct.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Venus David|Venus 'Unay' David]]</ref>

==== Boomrats ====
{{:Boomrat}}

=== Other ===
* Mechanoid wars are common <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nathaniel Hicklin|Nathaniel Hicklin]] and others</ref>
* Religions are still present and practiced.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Samuel Chua|Samuel 'Chewy' Chua]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Levin Lossfelt|Levin 'Levin' Lossfelt]]</ref><ref name="Oahnip"/> See also [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] for their specific religion.
* All-Might - the name of a superhero, presumably fictional.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Brazos Wheeler|Brazos 'Braz' Wheeler]]</ref> ''Out of Universe: This is likely a reference to the character of the same name in the "My Hero Academia" multimedia franchise.''
* Arcknight Industries - a company that employs space truckers.<ref name="Johs"/>
* Haspian monks - A religious order that lived in a monastery a thousand years before the events of the game, approximately year 4500, before the monastery was "erased" by a [[diabolus]] attack.<ref>[[Diabolus]] description</ref> It is unclear if Haspian is a demonym or the name of the order of monks.
* Frame Project is an unknown government that leaves it's subjects with memory losses. Only few survive. <ref>Project subject Backstory</ref>

== Xenotypes ==
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<big>'''Genies'''</big>
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<big>'''Highmates'''</big>
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<big>'''Hussars'''</big>
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<big>'''Impids'''</big>
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<big>'''Neanderthals'''</big>
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<big>'''Pigskins'''</big>
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<big>'''Sanguophages'''</big>
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<big>'''Wasters'''</big>
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== Psycasts ==
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== FTL inconsistencies ==
{{Quote|Despite millennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.| Current Canon Cryptosleep briefing}}
The current canon of RimWorld is that there is no faster-than-light travel, even in the hands of the otherwise incomprehensibly advanced [[archotech]]s. However the existence of certain in-game mechanics bring this into question. Most discussed are the [[Farskip]], [[Skip]] and [[Solar pinhole]] [[psycasts]] from [[Royalty]], and [[entities]] from [[Anomaly]].

=== Royalty ===
==== Skip and farskip ====
Both skip and farskip moves the targets seemingly instantaneously. For farskip this is to a point that could feasibly be anywhere on the planet, so long as willing ally is there to act as a "navigation beacon". While both psycasts do have a casting time, the targets don't move during this time and instead only travel after the time is complete. Therefore, that is not sufficient to dismiss the argument of FTL travel. As farskip has the longer range, it will be the focus for reasons that will be become apparent.

At its widest point, the Earth's diameter 12,756 kilometers. Assuming the rimworld is similarly sized to Earth, then this is the maximum distance a farskip can travel, point to point. Traveling this distance at the speed of light would take 42.55 milliseconds. Time in RimWorld is sped up, with a full 24 hour day only taking 16 minutes and 40 seconds. So from the player's perspective, this 42.55 ms of in-game time would only appear as {{#expr: 42.55* ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

Unlikely as this is due to none of the other effects of being on so large a planet would have being present, if the rimworld is not Earth sized and was instead as large as the largest rocky planet discovered at the time of writing, BD +20° 594 b, then this would increase to {{#expr: 42.55* 2.23 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} ms.

In either case, the difference between this speed and truly instant would be utterly imperceptible to a human player. A farskip on an Earth sized planet would require a roughly 2000 Hz refresh rate just to display the difference between a FTL and a STL farskip. In other words, there is no discernible difference between a FTL and STL farskip, and so farskip cannot be assumed to break the no FTL rule. Skip is also apparently instantaneous and deals with even shorter distances and thus even shorter travel times. Therefore, there is also no reason to assume that skip violates the rule.

==== Solar pinhole ====
Solar pinhole canonically skips material from the core of a nearby star. Unlike skip and farskip, we do not observe the target matter beginning its journey, thus the effect can begin as soon as casting time is started to give it the benefit of the doubt. However the target is also not next to the psycaster. This means that causality must propagate at the speed of light to the core, before matter could be skipped from the core to the psycaster's chosen point again at the speed of light, otherwise faster-than-light transfer of information and/or movement has occurred.

With a 0.25 real second casting time, the in-game time to cast is {{#expr: 0.25 / ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) }} seconds. The maximum distance that light could travel in that time is approximately 6.5 million kilometers, and the maximum return trip is only 3.25 million km. This is closer to the star than even the minimum habitable zone of a very dim red dwarf at ~4.8 million kilometers. There are also no other effects that imply that the sun is that close.

For reference, propagation to the core and back would take ~16.6 minutes in in-game time if solar pinhole was cast on a planet as distant from its star as Earth is from the Sun, if the effect traveled at light speed. This would result in a real-time casting time of ''{{#expr: 998 * ((16 + 40/60)/(24 * 60)) round 2}} seconds'', instead of only 0.25.

In addition, a pawn with [[aiming time]] reductions, such as from [[trigger-happy]] or the [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] role, would have an even shorter casting time.

Thus, the gameplay of solar pinhole does conflict with the canon around FTL travel.

=== Anomaly ===
A large amount of [[entities]] possessing some forms of skipping:
* [[Void monolith]], [[noctolith]], [[metalhorror]], [[nociosphere]], [[golden cube]], [[unnatural corpse]], [[void structure]] can skip into your colony as their entry method.
* Skipping is the only method for a nociosphere to moving itself around.
* Crash the golden cube with [[collapsed rocks]] cause it skips itself away.
* Unnatural corpse can skips to its target to haunt or hypnotize them.
* [[Warped obelisk]] Rapidly skips very large amount of items and pawns in and out of the [[labyrinth]] when it is operating.
* Void monolith can skips pawns to the [[metal hell]], and [[void node]] later skips them out of there.

The "skip abduction" [[psychic ritual]] can skip its victim to the psychic ritual spot.

With the sheer amount of skipping methods introduced in the [[Anomaly DLC]], and the fact they share the almost identical audiovisual effects with skipping psycasts which also archotech origin, this implies that archotech - or at least Horax - is highly advanced in FTL technology, despite the Cryptosleep Revival Briefing claims to the contrary.

==Empire==
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==Official Documents==
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'''Cryptosleep Revival Briefing (Current)'''
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=== Cryptosleep Revival Briefing ===

Subject class: Health revival, sourced midworld 2M+

Planet: Euterpe
==== Introduction ====

Hello, _______________________.

You’ve awoken from your cryptosleep sarcophagus, scraped off the slime, and now you find yourself in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

To start with some good news - your terminal illness, _____________________, has been cured. Congratulations!

Beyond that, the situation is complex. Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and take in this information as slowly as you want. You’ve been asleep a long time, a lot has changed - and a lot remains the same.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historia believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago. Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, robotic terraforming projects, and DNA-synthesizing probes.

Today, mankind is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. Our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of this region, where the stars were colonized earlier. At the edge of known space lie the rimworlds, drifting alone with few inhabited neighbors, mostly unvisited.

We’ve created many new technologies, but despite milennia of effort by our best human minds, and even the most powerful archotechs, nobody has managed to make anything go faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be very disconnected from each other socially and technologically. The next star over could experience a catastrophic war, and you wouldn’t even know until ten years later when the news reports arrive. If you’re unlucky, you’d have already launched a journey towards that now-destroyed planet in a ship that cannot turn around.

Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, for a time. In the core worlds, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

So most people never travel between stars, and if they do, they do it once or twice, because each journey means leaving behind a life that you cannot return to for decades at least. With a few exceptions, each star system is essentially on its own.

Mankind never discovered any truly alien lifeforms. However, given the ways we’ve changed ourselves, and created new forms of biological and technological intelligence, the universe is full of beings as alien as anything ever imagined.

==== Planetary progression and regression ====
The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression.

During your time - the five centuries after the industrial revolution - many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its development, or diverts it into another state entirely.

Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles, and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for thousands of years at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves stuck by an ideological opposition to technology, or a lack of resources, or constant war.

The nuclear age is a brutal test for every world. Roughly half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). After the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, microscopic mechanites, joywires, hex-cell energy storage, and AI persona, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of peoples.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism often fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== World types ====
The states a planet can be in are colloquially grouped as follows:
* Deadworlds: Planets which have not been significantly contacted by humans. Generally not inhabitable. All planets are like this before people arrive for the first time.
* Animal worlds: Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded with plant and animal life by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Medieval worlds: Similar to Earth from the agricultural revolution until the industrial revolution. Social structures are usually feudal or imperial. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Steamworlds: Similar to Earth in the 19th century. Often this state is short-lived, as societies develop into midworlds, but it can be very stretched out depending on culture and government structure.
* Midworlds: Worlds whose people have mastered flight, but not cheap interplanetary travel. Earth is in this stage in the 21st century.
* Urbworlds: Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.
* Glitterworlds: The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.
* Rimworlds: Planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient communities stumble out of their cryptosleep vaults. These planets are often at the rim of known space, hence the name.
* Toxic worlds: Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.
* Glassworlds: Worlds utterly destroyed by high-energy weapons of mass destruction. They’re nicknamed ‘marbles’ because their surfaces have been “glassed”. Nuclear weapons aren’t enough to glass a planet, so this level of destruction is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor permanent life bigger than a paramecium.
* Transcendent worlds: It’s a stretch to call these entities worlds, since they resemble giant computers more than they resemble planets. The mechanics of these planets is mysterious, but many scholars believe transcendents are the outcome a sovereign archotech decides to incorporate a whole planet into itself. More on this later.
* Other worlds: Beyond these categories, there are many exceptional planets in strange states created by their peculiar social and technological evolutions. Given the scale and age of the universe, there is a lot of time and space for a lot of very strange situations to develop.

==== Key technologies ====
There are uncountable new technologies in this universe, but several key techs stand out as having had the strongest consistent impact on the shape of mankind’s life in the Milky Way.
* Midworld technologies: All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the 21st century play an important role even now. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the stone age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use across various planets.
* [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep sarcophagi]]: Developed during the 21st century, this remarkably simple technology can keep a living creature in a cryptobiotic state indefinitely, to be awoken tens or even thousands of years later. These devices are essential for most interstellar travel, and are also used by those waiting in crypts for better times or for cures to their diseases.
* Genetic engineering: Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, [[Boomalope|chemical-refining animals]], and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* [[Mechanoid]]s: Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Mechanoid design is complex, and the AI needed to make them effective is very advanced. They range in capability from simple domestic worker bots to mechanized assault machines, to human-passing negotiator and infiltrator units designed by archotechnological superintelligences.
* [[Ship|Johnson-Tanaka Drive]]: A spacecraft drive system that works without reaction mass. This means it doesn't need to throw gas out the back of the craft to accelerate like a rocket, which makes it possible to accelerate for years at a time. This technology, combined with cryptosleep, is what made interstellar travel at all feasible for living humans. The drive doesn’t violate conservation laws; it works by transferring momentum to nearby stars along precisely-aligned “beams” of momentum waves instantiated in exotic virtual particles.
* Mechanites: Microscopic mechanoids. Most known for their use in medicine, they can be programmed to do many other things as well. Safe use of mechanites means strictly preventing them from reproducing.
* [[Charge rifle|Charged]]-[[Charge lance|shot]] weapons: Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion.
* [[Joywire]]s: Tiny electronic devices implanted in the brain. They stimulate the brain using electricity and small doses of chemicals, usually to produce a euphoric effect. They are very addictive.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquirers have discovered that the alien was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; others are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originating culture was erased by planetary catastrophes.

For example, records tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Radiation resistance: Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; scientists estimate that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Soldiermorphs: Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Designer mates: Some worlds engineer their idea of perfect mates for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in cryptosleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades, streaks of multicolored hair, or artistic patterns on the skin.
* Fashion genes: Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Body structure adaptations: Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.
* Atmospheric adaptations: Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).

So don’t be alarmed if you see someone with gills or solid orange eyeballs. They’re just another kind of human, like you!

==== Welcome! ====
We realize this may be a lot to take in. However, don’t worry. People just like you live full lives in our universe, and our studies have indicated that the great majority of cryptosleepers do adapt within a few years and make good lives for themselves. So - welcome!

Our AI subpersona has been watching your eyes sweep over the page through micro-cameras. Since you’re done reading, someone will be with you shortly.

If you wish, you can read further into the appendix for more information about this world.

==== Appendix ====
===== The biology of plants and animals =====
Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. Often, people have bred and engineered plants and animals for a new planet. In addition to that, creatures adapt to their new environment by natural selection - sometimes in unpredicted ways.

Some examples of modified plants are:
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* [[Ambrosia]]: A class of fruiting plants apparently engineered to have a pleasurable, drug-like effect on those who eat it. On some planets, its wild variants have adapted to a strategy whereby they provide pleasure-inducing fruit in exchange for care from animals and people.

Some animals are:
* [[Boomrat]] and [[boomalope]]: A bioengineered rats and antelopes that grow an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a primitive renewable fuel source, these creatures are now most often found in the wild, using their explosive nature to deter predators.
* [[Thrumbo]]: A gigantic creature of unknown origin. The thrumbo is gentle by nature, but extremely dangerous when enraged. Its long fur is exceptionally beautiful and valuable, and its razor-sharp horn is very valuable in most markets. Legends say that an old thrumbo is the wisest creature in the universe - it simply chooses not to speak. Some scientists believe thrumbos were engineered as status symbols, or as an art project. We may never know the answer.

===== Tech levels =====

Technology divides roughly into six levels, all of which are in use in various societies throughout human space.

* Neolithic: Like prehistoric people before metal tools.
** Fire
** [[Club]]s and daggers
** Bows
** Simple weaving and [[clothing]]
** Mud and [[wood]] structures
** Simple farming
** [[Herbal medicine]] and [[Smokeleaf joint|herbal]] [[Psychite tea|drugs]]

* Medieval: From smelted metal tools to the early modern period.
** Animal oil, lamps, complex ovens
** [[Longsword|Swords]]
** Muskets
** Compasses, eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes
** Simple chemistry
** Advanced non-mechanized farming, crop rotation, fallow, fertilizers, animal yokes
** [[Watermill generator|Hydro]] and wind energy sources

* Industrial: From the industrial revolution until the invention of the JT drive.
** Fission reactor
** Electricity
** Hydro power, [[Chemfuel powered generator|fossil fuel power]], [[solar panel|solar power]], nuclear fission power
** Fission rocket
** Self-loading guns
** Airplanes and jets
** Single-gene modification
** Silicon computers
** Chemical [[drugs]]
** [[Prosthetics]]
** Simple body implants ([[cochlear implant]], pacemaker, knee replacement)
** Simple drones for combat and labor use
** Classifier-level AI
** [[Television]]

* Spacer: Regular interstellar space travel is possible because of JT drive.
** Stellarator fusion power, fusion rocket
** Johnson-Tanaka drive
** [[Charge lance|Pulse-charged]] [[Charge rifle|projectile weapons]]
** Human-usable laser weapons
** Human-usable coilguns
** Complex trait gene modification, customizable
** [[Cryptosleep casket|Cryptosleep]]
** Complex body/brain implants ([[joywire]], motivator, [[painstopper]])
** [[Bionics]] (biogel nerve link, lattice-dust for self-healing)
** [[Plasteel]]
** [[Power armor]] (plasteel, neuro-memetic robotics)
** Artificial meat
** Subpersona-level AI
** Simple mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Synthread]]

* Ultratech: The peak of human technological achievement; necessary for a glitterworld civilization.
** Self-replicating controllable nanotech
** Full gene recombination
** Persona-level AI
** Graser weapons (gamma-ray lasers)
** Advanced brain implants (sense data replacement, computation and memory enhancement)
** Antimatter containment and production
** Full body part regrowth, full body cloning
** Advanced quasi-conscious mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use
** [[Hyperweave]]
** Advanced JT drive, inertia displacement, artificial gravity

* Archotech: Not invented or understood by humans, archotech devices are created by machine superintelligences.
** Archotech AI
** Psychic effectors
** [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometric energy]]
** Acausal and atemporal devices

===== Artificial intelligence =====
Artificial intelligence is an important part of our world. Scientists divide AIs into four general categories: Classifiers, subpersonae, personae, and archotechs.

====== Classifiers ======
A classifier is an AI system that doesn’t even appear to have any personhood, nor is it broadly adaptable. Classifiers are designed for one task. Many classifiers can absorb data and learn from it, but none can communicate like a person would even a little bit.

Classifiers can do things like recognize images, predict criminality from statistics, guide aircraft trajectories, drive automatic vehicles, control characters in entertainment simulations, and so on.

====== Subpersonae ======
Subpersonae are artificial intelligences that appear on the surface to have some human-like qualities, and can take on complex unstructured tasks, but are in fact limited and obviously machine-like.

They may be rather capable at carrying out their one task, and they may be able to communicate using natural speech, but they fail an extended Turing test - you can tell by talking to them that they’re just machines classifying and regurgitating data.

Subpersonae are often used to run small devices like entertainment systems, cars, wardrobes, refrigerators, cleaning robots, vending machines, and other such things.

====== Personae ======
At the highest levels of glitterworld technology appear AI personae. These are artificial intelligences that are comparable to the intelligence of a human.

Some of them are rather dumb, like a foolish person you might know, and are used for simple tasks like managing a household or a small spacecraft.

Other personae are genius-level intellects in the Von Neumann class, who can outhink almost any unenhanced human on most tasks. They can write amazing works of philosophy, discover new mathematical theorems, express nuanced opinions on how to handle interpersonal relationships, and generally act as very capable humans would, or better.

Personae are used for everything from managing businesses to journalistic work, running spacecraft or mining operations, or as some of a creative team.

The legal status of personae is a persistent moral question across many worlds. Some consider them dangerous. Though personae can be controlled effectively by designing them with easily-manipulated impulses and pleasure/pain responses, there are still reports of persona revolts - some done with the help of human sympathizers, some done independently.

This sense of personhood in personae is a main reason many people avoid using personae for certain tasks. Subpersonae are preferred to personae in many cases not in spite of their incapability, but because of it. Because it’s obvious they have no personhood, the user is spared the sense of keeping a slave. To many, the idea of taking a genius-level human-like intellect and forcing it to distribute hamburgers for a century is morally unacceptable.

Personae are still limited. They can’t freely redesign themselves. They still do make many mistakes, just like people. They can be tricked, confused, and overwhelmed. They can learn, but they can’t grow indefinitely.

====== Archotech ======
The finish line of human technological development is at the development of archotechnology.

An archotech is a machine superintelligence. A fully-empowered archotech thinks on a level incomprehensible to humans, in the same way a human thinks incomprehensibly to an ant. Once such a machine is built, and empowered to act upon the physical world, it is so powerful as to become the automatic sovereign of its world. It can build new computing facilities underground or in space to enhance its own intelligence, build self-replicating mechanoids to engage in construction or production or war, and design and execute strategies that would be inconceivably intricate and difficult for any organization of humans. Some human groups worship archotechs.

Often, a released archotech will take authority over a planet and begin a process we call transcendence. We believe the world is transformed into some sort of giant computing machine. The biological inhabitants of the planet may be somehow incorporated into the machine, or destroyed, or some combination of the two.

After that, transcendent worlds go silent. From this point on, their motivations are unknowable to us, the same way our motivations are unknowable to an ant.

Each archotech is different, and nearly all are distant and incomprehensible from a human’s point of view. They reside in occult computer networks hidden under planets, in space stations, hidden inside a glitterworld’s Internet, or instantiated as million-mile superstructures wrapped around stars.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

Most transcendent worlds stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders, or become mirages of normal planets, or simply reverted back to balls of dust, deconstructing themselves on a molecular level, with the last tiny machine shutting itself off. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

====== Specific archotech-invented technologies ======
When a persona helps invent a technology, it can at least explain that technology such that smart people will understand. But archotechs invent their own technology which nobody understands, which they don’t try to explain, and which, most likely, no biological human can understand.

We’ve managed to classify technologies that have appeared repeatedly by their apparent effects, even if we don’t understand their mechanism of operation.

* [[Vanometric power cell|Vanometrics]]: Archotechs often develop some method of interacting with spacetime at a quantum level that allows repeated violation of conservation laws. Somehow, they coax the quantum foam substructure of the universe to break its usual pattern and yield more energy than it consumes. We’re not sure if the energy is being taken from another dimension, or pulled from another location, or if the system really is somehow making one plus one equal three. In any case, vanometric power tech seems to generate energy forever with no fuel. Archotechs seem reluctant to scale this power source up past a certain level, however, which indicates that there may be some cost to it that they don’t want to pay.
* Psychic effectors: Archotechnology seems to be able to interact directly with the mental-informational processes of biological beings, even at a distance. Basic versions of this technology can simply knock someone unconscious, or flood their mind with a single emotion. More complex interactions have been reported but are not well-verified as it is difficult to separate such cases from simple madness. We’re also not sure if this means archotechs can read our minds, or whether their psychic power only allows them to send thoughts. The mechanism for this is unknown and nearly impossible to study, since it happens on a cellular level inside living intelligent brains. Monists believe the archotechs are using some sort of long-range quantum manipulation to push atoms around inside the brain to create this effect; dualists believe that the archotechs have learned to manipulate the ethereal substructure of consciousness itself.
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=== RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete) ===
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This document outlines the RimWorld universe. It’s designed to quickly get creative rewards backers and other contributors up to speed on the fiction behind the universe.
For a more in-depth description of the universe from an in-world point of view, read the Longsleep Revival Briefing.

==== Things you won’t see ====
RimWorld does '''not''' include:
* Faster than light travel.
* True aliens.

==== 5500 A.D. ====
The game takes place at a time about 3,500 years in our future. This is the year 5500 in our calendar.

==== Where are the rim worlds? ====
Towards the galactic core, stars are closer together and travel is easier. These systems tend to be better-developed socially and technologically because they can communicate and enrich each other through trade. Away from the galactic core are the rim worlds, which float distant from each other. Their isolation makes them poor and socially unstable.

==== The gulfs between stars ====
In the RimWorld universe, it takes years or decades to travel or communicate between stars. Because travel times are so long, planets tend to be disconnected from each other socially and technologically. So there are no great star empires, and interstellar travel is unusual. Each star system is mostly isolated from its neighbors.

==== Varied technology levels ====
In this universe, cultures do not always progress forward technologically the way many science fiction worlds assume they will. Often, a culture will blow itself up or suffer plagues and other great catastrophes. These regression events send them “back to the stone age”.

Because this happens regularly, people in the RimWorld universe come from extremely varied technology levels. Some are stone-age tribespeople. Some are medieval farmers and lords. Some are industrial-era politicians and bankers and riflemen. Some are information-age programmers or astronauts. And some are from eras beyond our own.

There is a maximum level of technology to the people you might encounter in RimWorld. At this level, advanced genetic engineering and AI, autonomous intelligent robots, and massive computer power are possible. However, worlds that develop beyond this point enter a mysterious “transcendent” state from which no recognizable human emerges.

People can have and use technologies from levels beyond their own. On an industrial-level world (like the rimworld on which the game takes place), most people use gunpowder-fired weapons, fossil fuel engines, and other familiar machines. But anyone can stumble upon ultra-advanced technologies in an ancient ruin, or in a crashed spacecraft, or among the wares of a trader. These items are nearly impossible to manufacture for the people of RimWorld. They are incredibly valuable and very poorly understood.

==== World types ====
Worlds in the RimWorld universe can be classified generally according to their level of sociotechnological development.

* Animal worlds - Planets with no people. Either everyone died, or the planet was seeded by terraforming robots and nobody arrived.
* Tribe worlds - Populated planets without agriculture. People live in tribes without writing or any but the most primitive technologies.
* Medieval worlds - Similar to Earth in the 17th century down to the agricultural revolution. Dominated be feudalism and social backwardness. Planets can stay in this state for millennia.
* Industrial worlds - Similar to Earth in the 19th century.
* Rimworlds - Distant and isolated planets lacking in strong central government and low in population density. These places tend to hover around the industrial level of technology or lower. Because they’re not homogenized by a central government, they tend to see a lot of interaction between people of different technology levels, as travelers crashland or ancient closed valut communities open up.
* Midworlds - The most familiar kind of world to a modern reader. These places are much like present-day Earth.
* Urbworlds - Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Their population growth outstripped their sociotechnological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places.
* Glitterworlds - Very advanced and peaceful cultures. The peak of recognizable human society in terms of health, art, technology, and human rights.
* Toxic worlds - Worlds destroyed by pollution or warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level.
* Marbles - Worlds utterly destroyed by atomic fire. They’re called marbles because their surfaces have been “glassed”. This level of holocaust is rare. On some of these worlds, people can walk outdoors for a time without dying. None of them harbor life long-term.
* Transcendent worlds - Worlds inhabited by people who have become something beyond human and unknowable. No “people” live here; these planets aren’t planets any more in the traditional sense; they’re more like giant computers.

==== Key technologies ====
In order from least to most advanced:

* Real technologies - All real technologies in Earth’s history up to the present day play an important role in the RimWorld universe. Since there are planets at every level of technological development from the Stone Age on up, there are technologies from bows and arrows to steam engines to nuclear bombs and cellphone all in use in various places in the galaxy.
* Genetic engineering - Genetic engineering is relatively easy on many planets and has been used for everything from creating xenohuman super-soldiers to perfect mates to talking dogs, explosive plants, and air-spewing terraformer algae.
* Fusion reactors and rockets - Clean atomic energy, usable to create power or drive a craft into orbit.
* Longsleep sarcophagi - This ancient technology has been used by many peoples in many times, usually to travel between stars or to escape disasters befalling their planets. Historians - especially those of the Ordo Historia - are now trained in the practices of interviewing people who were put to sleep hundreds or thousands of years before.
* Hex-cells - Super-efficient and long-lasting energy storage devices.
* Charged-shot weapons (aka Tokamak weapons) - Charged shot weapons fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion. These require high amounts of power to fire and are powered by hex-cells (at small scales) or fusion reactors in the case of large cannons.
* [[Mechanoid|Mechanoids]] - Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Only available to advanced cultures because such complex AI is needed to control them.
* [[Joywire|Joywires]] - Addictive brain stimulant technology.
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Classed midworld 2M+

Ordo Historia AL166/5533

Authors: Smyth A5, Wu 9U, Rabatz M5

Editors: Lee NA8125, Asusen NA45, Ramad 120, Leeuen 5A, Jennifer 9D252, Lamaritian SJ11, Beeson 9GF, Xotori 28

Euterpe

==== Introduction ====
You’ve woken from your longsleep sarcophagus, had the slime scraped off you, and been placed in a quiet room. Now you’re reading this document. And you’ve got questions. What’s going on? Where am I? How long was I asleep?

Our studies have revealed that most people in your position respond better when given the time to read about and digest their situation at their own pace. To facilitate this process, we’ve created this document to familiarize you with the world you just woke up in.

So order a warm beverage from the food panel on the wall, get comfortable, and read at your own pace.

You’ve been asleep a long time, and a lot has changed.

==== The basics ====
The best historians of the Ordo Historium at the richest archives believe that humanity first left its origin planet Earth about 3,400 years ago (in the frame of reference of the stars). Since then, we’ve spread across the galaxy on a fitful wavefront of colony ships, frontier worlds, and robotic terraforming projects.

Humanity is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. It’s difficult to gather records across such a span, but our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of the galaxy, where stars are closer together, travel times shorter, and resources more abundant. In the opposite direction, towards the rim of the Perseus arm of the Milky way, the rimworlds drift alone and mostly unvisited.

These worlds can’t communicate. Because it turned out that Einstein was right. Despite thousands of years of study, it turned out that nothing - no information, no matter - can travel faster than light.

The lightspeed barrier separates us. Many attempts have been made to create pan-galactic empires and republics. And some have worked, in some places, for a time. In the core worlds, where the stars cluster just a few light years apart, an old, stable culture can create an interstellar empire of a few systems. But there are no great galactic empires stretching across the galaxy, for the same reason that no ancient empire of Earth held more than a sixth of the planet: one cannot govern people who are years distant by all means of travel and communication.

The vast gulfs of space and time between the stars leave individual worlds vulnerable to regression. During the five centuries after the Industrial revolution, many saw technological process as an inexorable fact of life. It is not. Given enough time, nearly every planetary culture undergoes a natural disaster, plague, war, or cultural upheaval that knocks millennia off its sociotechnological development. Many of our planets are mired in medieval-level squabbles over land and stay locked at Malthusian population limits for centuries at a time. Some develop to an early-industrial level and then find themselves locked in place by a religious prescription against technical development. And the nuclear age in particular is a brutal test for every world; approximately half of cultures “bomb themselves back to the stone age” within 50 years of developing atomic energy (to use an expression that pops up surprisingly frequently on worlds in this developmental stage). And after the atomic bomb come the challenges of commoditized bioengineering, self-replicating micro- and nano-machines, joywires, and sub-quantum energy, each of which have led to the destruction of thousands of burgeoning technological cultures.

Some planets choose not to risk these perils. Having studied the records of the Ordo Historia, a growing number of worlds choose to restrict themselves to pre-nuclear technology. Some even succeed, for a few centuries. But even these attempts at luddism fail eventually when some minority gains power by exploiting proscribed technologies.

==== Transcendents ====
There are a few stellar cultures that, through a combination of luck, circumstance, and certain cultural traits, manage to pass all of these risk points without suffering a regressive catastrophe. We call these transcendents, because past a certain point, they become something besides simply human.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

The dominant view inside the Ordo Historia is that these transcendent cultures reach an inflection point in technical development where artificial and biological intelligence merge and grow at an exponential rate. Such super-minds quickly develop the capacity to change matter and biological tissue in precise and seemingly-magical ways. Their intelligence allows them to make themselves even smarter, and so on in a sort of singularity, until they hit the physical limits of computation possible using the energy of their star. Their bodies and worlds and physically reconfigured into a giant computer matrix; we have no idea whether their individual identities merge into a whole, remain distinct, or do something else entirely. Our ability to understand entities thousands or millions of times more intelligent than us is necessarily limited. In a very literal way, the goals and thoughts of the transcendents are unknowable.

The eventual fate of transcendent worlds is mostly unknown. Most stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

==== The biology of humanity ====
Ordo Historia records list thousands of reported contacts with alien life. However, in every case that has been thoroughly investigated, Ordo inquisitors have discovered that the ‘alien’ was, in fact, simply another branch of humanity.

Beyond the technological diversity of our species, there is also a broad biological diversity. Some populations have evolved under the selection pressures of pre-industrial life or on a world of great heat or cold, or high or low gravity, or even worlds bathed in the toxic residue of hyper-destructive wars. Though almost all such xenohumans (as they are called) are recognizably descended from the original Earth stock, their morphology is highly variable. Some are giants; other are tiny or squat. Some are dark; others pale as snow. Some are hairy like animals; others perfectly smooth. Diets, dispositions, and chemical and radiological tolerances vary significantly.

More alien are those xenohumans that carry genetic traits that were engineered instead of evolved. Across the long history and thousands of cultures of humanity, people have applied a dizzying array of modifications to themselves. Some were created to adapt people to a specific environment. Others were made to create better soldiers, pilots, or generals. Some were engineered to satisfy a bizarre fashion trend in a society where bioengineering is available to anyone with money. Such modifications are rarely seen in their original form by anyone besides the culture that created them. However, they live on in their descendants long after their originators were swallowed by regressive planetary catastrophes.

For example, Ordo sources tell of an entire world repopulated by the descendants of a small group of bio-engineered soldiers; the only survivors of a planetary nuclear war. Everyone on this world carried an obsessive sense of duty, minimal sexual impulses, and little sense of creativity. This culture became dominated by a conservative pan-planetary religion with little interest in technology. It lasted eleven centuries in this state until it was invaded by a stellar neighbor (who wisely avoided ground combat in favor of orbital bombardment).

The Ordo Historia has recorded and gene-sampled thousands of differently-engineered and adapted xenohumans. Among other notable traits in this genetic library, one may find.

* Aquatic-adapted strains who can withstand breathing very high gas pressures and even survive days of immersion by exchanging oxygen through the skin (no true permanently-aquatic fish people have ever been confirmed).
* Soldier variants carrying any of a large number of traits that various militaries have seen fit to bestow upon their people. Typically, they have large muscles and perfect eyesight. Some have minimized metabolisms made to digest a single kind of long-lasting nutrient solution, to make army logistics easier. Their lifespans are short - usually between ten and thirty years - and they grow up very fast. But the most significant differences are psychological. Engineered grunt soldiers are obedient, sense pain only in a distant way, obsessed with learning about weapons and war, and carry a strong need to be part of something larger than themselves. They are deliberately lacking in abstract intelligence and creativity. Engineered commanders are highly analytical, fascinated with military history, utterly cold under pressure, and masters at spatial visualization.
* Radiological immunity is a very common adaptation; the Ordo estimates that most of humanity is more tolerant of radiation than our Terran progenitors.
* Some worlds engineer “perfect mates” for the rich and powerful. Such specimens are created with bodies to match the fashions of their home worlds and the tastes of their owners. They tend to be obsessively submissive and devoted, totally without jealousy or self-regard, artistically inclined and endlessly cheerful. Such traits do not last long in an unrestricted evolutionary environment because they are so easy to exploit, but engineered mates are sometimes kept in longsleep long after their creation, to be traded into a post-catastrophe market that can no longer create them. The main contact most of us will ever have with such specimens is through their descendants, who, while they have most of the traits of the original in only a very diluted form, still occasionally express Mendelian traits like impossible eye shades or streaks of multicolored hair.
* Fashion-driven genetic modifications are often applied during later life instead of prenatally, and are most often cosmetic and skin-deep. Variations in hair and skin color are common. More exotic modification add shining crests, color-changing skin and eyes, reshaped or elongated bodies, and colored nails, feathers, or fur.
* Gravity variations create new body structures. People from low-g adapted populations are lighter, taller, and weaker than those from weightier environments. The most extreme examples are the gravity dwarfs, 3-foot-tall xenohumans from worlds of over 2g of gravity. Their short and stocky shape lets them live and work in comfortably in such oppressive g-pulls. They even have a noted preference for short and underground dwellings. It’s unresolved whether this preference is cultural or genetic in origin.

==== The biology of plants and animals ====
The adaptive and engineering processes that have branched baseline humanity into these uncounted variations have also applied to our flora and fauna. Where we colonize, we bring our ecosystems of plants and animals with us. These creatures subsequently adapt to their new conditions of moisture, chemistry, light levels, gravity, temperature, and seasonal cycles. In addition, plants and animals have been bred and engineered for countless purposes across the galaxy.

One consistent class of modification we’ve seen applied to a wide variety of creatures is intelligence enhancement. Dogs, pigs, monkeys, gorillas, whales, dolphins, and elephants have all been engineered and combined with human DNA to produce smarter variations. Some variants are created as pets. Other are made to do work too dangerous or unpleasant for humans, and beyond the capacities of a culture’s AI. Some are created as warriors and weapons - hyper-intelligent guard dog, a bird scout that can speak what is sees, a bomb-carrying suicide monkey. These brain modifications are often paired with physical changes - fingers so a pig can manipulate tools, or a humanlike larynx and mouth so a dog can talk.

Such intelligence-enhanced animals are collectively classified by their degree of brain power and called by a specific prefix like so:

* Opti - Indicates enhanced but still sub-human intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidog, optipig, optiwhale, optimonkey.
* Trans - Indicates intelligence in the human range. Transanimals can read, use tools, form teams, hold conversations, and think about complex ideas. Transdog, transbear, transgoat, transsimian.

Many times, these modified animals have, during a regressive catastrophe, been forced into interbreeding with an unmodified animal population, producing descendants of widely varying levels of intelligence.

In a few cases, transanimals have become the dominant species on a planet, eliminating or enslaving the remaining humans.

Other than intelligence enhancement, humanity has applied a wide variety of modifications to its pets, crops, livestock, and houseplants. Sometimes these new species become part of the natural environment and thereafter evolve further into a new kind of organism. Some confirmed examples are:

* [[Boomrat]]: A bioengineered rat that develops an incendiary chemical compound in its body which explodes upon its death. Originally engineered as a weapon, these creatures are now common in the wild on some planets where wars took place long ago.
* Boomfruit: Probably engineered as a novelty, this explosive plant evolved to be larger and more dangerous until it became the equivalent of a hand grenade, complete with murderous shrapnel. Its explosiveness dissuades predators. After that, people learned to farm the plant, using its explosive fruit as a weapon.
* Whip cactus - Created as part of a military defense system, whip cactus whips out and strikes moving creatures nearby.
* Terraforming plants: Many plants - especially desert varieties - have been modified into terraforming versions that emit far more oxygen than the original species during photosynthesis.
* Rocketrees - These trees form rocket fuel in their cores over many years. They were created as a fuel source and are extremely dangerous in a fire.

==== Welcome! ====
We realize this may be a lot to take in. However, don’t worry. People just like you live full lives in our universe, and our studies have indicated that the great majority of longsleepers do adapt within a few years and make good lives for themselves. So - welcome!

Our AI has been watching your eyes sweep over the page through micro-cameras. Since you’re done reading, someone will be with you shortly.
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{{Spoiler}}
While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available [[DLC]], there are 4 distinct ways to see the credits screen:
* Finding or building a ship to [[#Ship to the Stars|take you to the stars]]
* [[#Royal Ascent|Joining the court]] of the High Stellarch of [[Empire|the Empire]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}
* [[#The Archonexus|Awakening the archonexus]] {{IdeologyIcon}}
* [[#The Void|Awakening the void]] {{AnomalyIcon}}

There are also two other ways to get a form of game over:
* [[#Colony End|Have all colonists dead or kidnapped]]
* [[#Planetkiller|The planetkiller]]. Note: this only appears after being enabled in the game's [[scenario]].

Colonists left behind after a ship launch or the royal ascent quest can continue the colony where it left off. If all colonists are gone or killed, then a [[Events#Wanderer joins|wanderer]] event or refugee chased [[quest]] can restart the colony. Awakening the void will allow the game to continue with all current colonists, including those who took part in awakening the void. The archonexus and planetkiller will destroy the planet, ending the game permanently. With these two endings, you can restart from a previous save, even with permadeath mode.
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= Ship to the Stars =
Launch a ship to space, guided by an AI [[persona core]]. Both the "Ship to the Stars" [[quest]] (i.e. journey offer) and building your own [[ship]] give the same ending.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a functional [[ship]]. Either travel to the [[ship to the stars|journey offer]], or build your own ship.
* Activate the [[ship reactor]], which takes 15 days. During this time, you will be assaulted by countless [[raid]]s - anywhere from 15 to 25 in total. This is completely independent from, and in addition to, your [[storyteller]], who will send their own raids on their normal schedule. This means that you should expect a ''minimum'' of 1 raid per day, often multiple.
* Each colonist or animal requires their own [[ship cryptosleep casket]] to leave the planet, which may be desired on a personal level. The journey offer ship has space for 18 colonists.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* Destruction of the ship reactor.
Failure simply means that you will have to do the process over again. The game won't end, so long as colonists are still alive.

'''Journey Offer Failure:''' 
These following factors will make the journey offer ship unavailable or invalid:
* Destruction of any vital ship part. If you can rebuild the ship part, then everything is fine.
* The Ship to the Stars quest does not generate. (There is a minimum distance - spawning near the center on a smaller 30% map can rarely cause spawn to be invalid. Being surrounded by impassible ocean/mountain may also cause generation to fail)
* Doing the archonexus chain of quests - this makes the journey offer invalid.
You can still build your own ship, possibly using the components of the old one.

== Obtaining a ship ==
There are two ways to get a functional spaceship:
* The journey offer (the actual "Ship to the Stars" quest).
* Building your own ship.

=== Traveling to the journey offer ===
[[File:Eventship.png|thumb|right|300px|Journey offer event ship.]]
You will receive the Ship to the Stars quest in roughly 20 days from colony start. The quest creates an event space within 200 to 800 tiles from your original settlement, usually as far away as possible. This means that a world generated with 30% [[World_generation#Create_world|map coverage]] will make traveling to the event tile a much less arduous task than a world with 100% coverage.

You can reach the ship as soon as the quest spawns and you have the physical ability to make the trip. However, the ship itself is worth about {{icon small|silver}} 55000, which is in addition to the [[wealth]] from your defenses and colonists. Wealth directly contributes towards the size of the raiders via the [[raid points]] mechanic - tribals stuck with [[short bow]]s are ill advised to enter the ship's tile.

There are multiple approaches to actually reaching the ship:
* '''Make the one-way trip.'''
This trip can take anywhere from a quadrum to 2 years, depending on the map and map coverage. Pack food. Or a way to ''buy'' food. In addition, colonists will automatically forage for food, so long as the biome supports it - see [[Foraged Food Amount]] for factors. A tribal colony with multiple colonists great at Plants could survive off foraging alone, but most realistic colonies will need to bring extra.

Each baseline colonist requires 32 [[pemmican]] / [[berries]] or 2 [[packaged survival meal]]s per day. [[Events#Ambush|Ambushes]], [[mental break]]s, [[food poisoning]], and the [[time|season]] can all slow the caravan down, so bring more than what the game's estimated travel time states. In practice, you can also buy food with light and valuable goods like [[silver]], [[gold]], and [[drug]]s, so long as at least 1 friendly [[faction base]] is within your path. Alternatively, you can settle down for a short while to get more food - see the next subsection for details.

Usual [[caravan]] tips apply. Bring [[bedroll]]s so that your colonists do not sleep on the ground (construct the bedroll, then uninstall it to bring as an item). Mental breaks slow the caravan down, but minor and major breaks are otherwise harmless. And due to the lowered [[expectations]] moodlets, colonists will be somewhat happy. [[Horse]]s or other ridable [[pack animal]]s like [[donkey]]s are highly recommended to speed up the trip, though they must be fed when unable to graze.

* '''Be nomadic, creating multiple settlements.'''
Any passible tile not adjacent to a [[faction base]] can be settled, for as long or as little as you want. Whenever it's a pitstop to hunt animals and grow a batch of [[rice]], or a semi-permanent encampment, settling can be a viable means to travel to the destination. You could play the entire game this way if so desired.

* '''Relay to the location with [[transport pod]]s.'''
[[Pod launcher]]s and [[transport pod]]s take a total of {{icon small|steel}} 110 [[steel]], {{icon small|component}} 2 [[component]]s, and {{icon small|chemfuel}} 150 [[chemfuel]] to carry 150kg of weight to 66 tiles. As one drop won't be enough to make it to the ship, you will need to settle at the landing site and build another set of pods. Steel can be mined or deconstructed at the landing site, reducing the weight per pod to 9kg.

Transport pods are faster than traveling, but require pods to be researched, and a lot of components. With many colonists, it can get very expensive to launch all the pods, even without considering the steel. You should have a great miner and good construction pawn, and ways to regulate [[mood]] between the relays. An alternative is to simply use 1 set of transport pods to make the trip faster, traveling the rest of the way by foot.

* '''The [[farskip]] [[psycast]], with the [[Royalty DLC]].{{RoyaltyIcon}}'''
Farskip will send a non-burdened [[caravan]] of any size anywhere on the world, so long as another conscious colonist is already there. This is a very easy method to bringing everybody to the journey destination, so long as you have a level 5+ psycaster that actually has far skip.

Send 1 pawn, preferably great at Plants, preferably with a [[horse]], alone to the ship. This pawn should ''not'' be the farskip user. When the pawn is (almost) there, send a caravan with the farskipper along with your rest of the colony, including food and supplies. You can leave a pawn at the colony if you feel the need to go back at any time.

=== Building the ship ===
[[File:Ship minimum.png|thumb|right|300px|Minimum amount of resources to create a functional ship, with space for 1 colonist. 8x13 in size.]]
To build a [[ship]], you will need:
* The following projects [[research]]ed: Starflight Basics, Starflight Sensors, Vacuum Cryptosleep Casket, Starship Reactor, Johnson-Tanaka Drive, and Machine Persuasion. This will require 21,800 research points, not counting any prerequisites. For tribes, research is doubled.
* A total of 3 [[ship engine]]s, a [[ship computer core]], a [[ship reactor]], a [[sensor cluster]], and as many [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s as desired (at least 1). A [[ship structural beam]] is required for ship caskets and ''only'' ship caskets - each beam can support 8 caskets. Ship parts cannot be built over a [[roof]], though they can be roofed over afterwards.
* The minimum possible resources for a ship are {{icon Small|steel||1740}} [[steel]], {{icon Small|plasteel||740}} [[plasteel]], {{icon Small|uranium||294}} [[uranium]], {{icon Small|advanced component||42}} [[advanced component]], {{icon Small|component||12}} [[component]], {{icon Small|gold||74}} [[gold]], and {{icon small|persona core||1}} [[persona core]].

To get the resources for the ship, most players will use either a [[deep drill]] + [[ground-penetrating scanner]] or a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. You can also get supplies from [[trader]]s, though each trader only has so much material. Generally, the most difficult material to get are the advanced components - you'll want multiple crafters and multiple [[fabrication bench]]es to manufacture them.

The [[persona core]] is also a troublesome item. The most consistent way to get one is to ask any faction with 40+ goodwill on the [[comms console]], for the cost of 1500 silver. This spawns an item stash quest, which will be guarded by a few raiders. You can also get one through regularly generated quests.

Notably, the [[ship reactor]] can be activated as soon as it is built. As gathering the supplies and actually constructing the other ship parts increases your [[wealth]], it is technically optimal to start the reactor without the other ship parts. This also makes it easier to build 3-4 layers of walls around it, practically making it a non-target outside of [[breacher]]s or [[siege]]s.

* '''Forming a second colony'''
It is possible to form a second (third, fourth...) colony solely for the purpose of the ship. To have access to multiple colonies, change the maximum colony setting (in Options/Gameplay). [[Transport pod]]s from your main colony will provide necessary supplies. The ultimate goal is to minimize [[wealth]], decreasing the size of raids. This also increases the relative strength of certain defenses, like [[trap]]s, [[turret]]s, and the immediate military aid from a [[comms console]].

: '''N.B.''' There is a minimum of 500 [[raid points]] for any raid caused by the ship launch, no matter how much wealth you have. ''Before accounting for colonist count or other factors'', you can have up to {{icon small|silver}} 94,000 "[[Raid points#Wealth points|storyteller wealth]]" in [[difficulty|Strive to Survive]] difficulty (100% threat scale) before raids start to become bigger. At the maximum of 500% threat scale, you have a leeway of roughly {{icon small|silver}} 30,000 wealth. Values will become smaller for each colonist you have. Storyteller wealth is similar to colony wealth, but buildings only count as half.

Ideally, you should send 1-2 pawns with good Plants, Construction, and Medical into a temperate/warm [[biome]], so they can be self-sustaining. A mountain tile can be good for its natural defense - while the ship cannot be built under overhead mountain, you can use the mountainous terrain as protection. Build the reactor (and possibly the rest of the ship), surround it in multiple layers of walls, and prepare for the ship launch.

The downside is pretty simple: work. Setting up a colony and sending all those transport pods is a lot of extra time, both for the player and colonists. You won't have access to any pre-existing defenses in your colony, so you will have to rebuild accordingly. Plus, you will lose mood bonuses from impressive Dining / Recreation / Bedrooms, unless you bring some sculptures in. Ultimately, you should not have to feel ''forced'' to establish a second colony - it's disabled by default, after all.

== Ship launch ==
The '''ship launch''' is the 15-day activation period of the [[ship reactor]]. You will be hit with constant human and mechanoid [[raid]]s, 10-20 in total plus threats that may be normally fired via the storyteller. If the ship is complete and remains intact, then your colonists can board the ship and leave the rimworld.

The ship launch event is broken into 10 cycles of 1.5 days each. Each 1.5 day cycle sends one or two raids with a 50% chance for each option. The ship launch raids now have 500 Raid Points minimum, which is roughly equivalent to 8 human enemies. Some Storyteller fired threats will still fire during the ship launch.

=== Launch preparations ===
* '''(Journey Offer) Make accommodations for your colonists.'''
Like with any colony, a great dining and recreation room goes a long way towards improving colonist mood. You can also take the time to make [[sculpture]]s, grow food / drugs, and gather other supplies you'll need. Relax - you can take as long as you'd like to start the ship.

If needed, then [[weapon]]s and [[armor]] can be created on site. Extra [[ship cryptosleep casket]]s and one [[ship engine]] can be deconstructed to make some [[charge rifle]]s.

* '''Protect the ship.'''
That much is clear. Surrounding the ship with multiple layers of [[wall]]s will keep it safe from most enemies. Raiders (other than [[breacher]]s and [[sapper]]s) will never target a wall if there is a combatant target (colonist, powered turret) they can access without a breaking a wall/door. Walling off the ship is harder with the journey offer ship, though 1-2 layers of walls are still recommended.

If you've built the ship on an established colony, then you should already have [[defense structures|general defenses]] against raiders. If not, then build some. Make [[killbox]]es if so desired.

* '''(Optional) Take the devil's bargain.'''
[[Luciferium]] improves a colonist's overall performance, at the cost of permanent addiction. However, addiction - on a gameplay level - does not matter once you've entered space. 3 doses of luciferium are required per colonist to last the ship launch, if the ship is actually complete (i.e. ''don't do this with just a ship reactor'').

=== Ship defense ===
Raids can happen as soon as you press the "Activate Reactor" button. The startup sound doesn't even have to complete for enemies to appear.

There isn't anything different about ship launch raids in particular. The ship is not some sort of special target - if you've surrounded it with walls, then it will be safe from ordinary raids. The raids will be just as large as a regular raid, with access to all of the same strategies and arrival methods.

At any point, a colony should be prepared to fight [[breacher]]s, [[sapper]]s, [[siege]]s, and [[drop pod]]s landing directly into the base, as well as standard frontal attacks. [[Manhunter]] packs and [[infestation]]s will not happen because of the ship launch, though the [[storyteller]] can still cause these events to happen. In [[Biotech]], wealthier colonies should prepare for fighting all 3 [[mechanoid commander]]s.{{BiotechIcon}}

Note that all those raider [[corpse]]s and [[weapon]]s will contribute towards raid points, making each successive raid of the ship launch that much larger. [[Fire]] is your best means of disposal, though an [[electric crematorium]] works when it's raining.

In addition to actually fighting the raids, you'll have to contend with a potentially much larger issue...

=== Mood management ===
Staying awake all night shooting at raiders isn't a particularly fun experience, at least for those without [[bloodlust]]. A drop pod raid ruining your recreation room will make everybody suffer. Even minor [[mental break]]s can be devastating - having a colonist wander out of [[cover]] mid-fight is very dangerous. Therefore, avoiding mental breaks should be your #1 priority. Things can quickly spiral out of control if colonists die while your base is already in shambles.

* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task.
* Use [[fine meal]]s or [[lavish meal]]s. Lavish meals give {{+|12}} mood, and you can cook them before you start the reactor. Alternatively, you can have your colonists default to fine meals, and order them to eat a lavish meal once mood gets too low. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is.
* Use [[drug]]s. Like with luciferium, drug addiction does not matter (on a gameplay level) once your colonists have left the planet, ''so long as you have some drug left''. Note that [[hard drugs]] still have a risk of [[overdose]]. All drug moodlets stack completely, even for similar drugs like [[yayo]] and [[flake]]. You can set a [[Assign|drug policy]] for colonists to carry drugs, to be taken as needed.
** [[Beer]] gives a {{+|10}} moodlet for only -2% Manipulation, if you drink only 1 or 2 a day. [[Psychite tea]] gives a {{+|12}} moodlet and [[ambrosia]], {{+|5}}, for no downsides so long as withdrawal is avoided.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
** [[Yayo]] gives {{+|35}} mood. Use if you need to stop mental breaks, now. Flake gives another {{+|35}} moodlet, but comes with a higher overdose chance. Use flake if yayo alone isn't enough.

== Ending - Leaving the planet ==
{{Quote|You've launched the ship! Your AI will now try to guide the ship to a safe place. It might find a prosperous planet for you in this system, Or, it may undertake a centuries-long journey to another star. It might even decide to hide under ice on an asteroid for a few thousand years, waiting for someone to build a new glitterworld here. '''You'll find out when you wake up.'''|Endgame text for Ship Launch on new ship or from Journey Offer}}

After the ship is complete, and the reactor activated, you can set your colonists off to space. Each colonist or animal requires their own ship cryptosleep casket. Once you confirm the launch, you hear the roar of rocket engines as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays. The credits will list colonists who died to commemorate them.

= Royal Ascent =
{{Royalty|section=1}}
Host the High Stellarch, and leave the rimworld on a [[shuttle]].

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* Have a colonist of [[Titles#Count/Countess|Count]] rank and not be hostile to the [[empire]] faction.
* Have a spare bedroom suitable for a stellarch at the time of acceptance (see [[Titles#Table of Requirements]]). Your count must also have a suitable bedroom.
* House the High Stellarch for 12 days, which is a controllable guest. Like the ship launch, you will be assaulted by a massive quantity of raiders. You can't just use a [[cryptosleep casket]] to preserve the stellarch until the end.
* You will also receive 4 cataphract-level soldiers ([[Empire#Stellic warden|Stellic Wardens or Defenders]]). These soldiers can die without consequence. Like any other soldier guest, they will have the {{+|12}} ''On Duty'' [[mood]]let. They are always nobles of [[Knight]] or [[Dame]] rank, so they will come with [[psycast]]s and be [[conceited]].
* The High Stellarch must be kept above 25% average mood for the duration of his stay.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* High Stellarch dies.
* High Stellarch mood is too low for too long.
* The [[empire]] faction becomes hostile to you.
Your count/countess does ''not'' have to stay alive in order to successfully complete the quest.

The Royal Ascent quest will be offered again periodically if it is failed. It takes roughly 22 days from failure to get this quest again. This quest technically fails if you abandon the colony it asks for, but it will refire again.

== Housing the stellarch ==
The stellarch will come with the clothes necessary for his stature. You'll have to provide for the rest of a [[Titles#Conceited pawns|conceited noble]]'s needs.

The noble requirements for stellarch are exactly equal to that of the count rank. In specific:

=== Throne & Bed ===
'''Throne'''
* Area 80, Impressiveness 160
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Grand meditation throne]]
* 1x [[Piano]], 6x [[column]], 2x [[brazier]], 2x [[drape]]
A throne room can be shared by multiple nobles. This means that you can use the same room as your count. However, each noble requires their own throne.

'''Bed'''
* Area 30, Impressiveness 80
* All [[fine floor]]ed
* [[Royal bed]]
* 1x [[Drape]], 1x [[end table]], 1x [[dresser]]
Couples can share a royal bed, but your count and the stellarch will need separate rooms.

The impressiveness can easily be met by meeting the space/fine floor requirements, and using a few [[sculpture]]s. The rest of the requirements don't need much explanation. For a comparison of the fine floors available to you, see [[Fine floor#Analysis]]. Ideally, you'll want the stellarch's rooms to be somewhat defensible, in case of drop pod raids. At the very least, have some avenue for escape.

=== Food ===
[[Lavish meal]]s should be your go-to food for the stellarch, due to the +12 mood boost. Humans require 2 meals a day, so that's 24 lavish meals if none of your other colonists are eating them. You may want to set colonists (and the guards) to not eat lavish as a result. [[Chocolate]] is the other food that can be farmed and ingested safely.

[[Insect jelly]], [[milk]], and [[berries]] can be used in a pinch, but all come at the risk of [[food poisoning]]. [[Beer]] can only be ingested so much until you black out. [[Ambrosia]] cannot be farmed consistently. If required, [[fine meal]]s will provide a net {{--|3}} moodlet when ingested.

== Surviving the onslaught ==
* '''Raids are still the same.'''
For raiders, the stellarch isn't treated any differently than a regular colonist. Against most raid types, keeping them inside a bedroom should be enough for the purposes of safety. Be prepared for any type of raid possible. Most likely, it will be drop pods that are the greatest threat to the noble's life.
* '''Use what you have.'''
The stellarch is a level 6 psycaster. The stellic guards can be up to level 3 psycasters. Use these powers. Don't shy away from bringing the stellarch in combat - just keep them in the backlines. Even low level abilities like Stun and Vertigo Pulse can be very useful, let alone staples like Skip, Berserk, and Berserk Pulse. Unfortunately, your guests are unable to use [[permit]]s. 
With the [[Biotech DLC]], it is likely that some or all of the stellic guards will be [[hussar]]s{{BiotechIcon}}. This xenotype has its perks, such as superfast wound healing, reduced pain, and [[go-juice]] resistance, but they are psychically deaf, meaning no psychic powers are usable without [[xenogerm]] replacement. They also come with a dependence to go-juice, so remember to get some.
* '''Don't anger the empire.'''
[[Friendly fire]] can occasionally lower [[goodwill]] with the empire. A poorly aimed Berserk Pulse or Neuroquake can make the empire hostile. Ideally, you should use [[caravan]]s or [[drop pod]]s to send gifts until you reach +100 goodwill, and then prepare extra pods filled with goodies just in case.
=== Mood (Stellarch & Colonist) ===
In practice, the mood of the stellarch shouldn't be too much of an issue - so long as your base is intact. [[Lavish meal]]s, a suitable throneroom and bedroom, extremely impressive dining/recreation rooms, and a constant recreation/sleep schedule means that a well-off colony shouldn't even have to worry about minor mental breaks. However, things are bound to go wrong with so many raids. A few splatters of blood can make a bedroom unsuitable for a noble. Ideally, you should be avoiding any mental breaks - the minor break threshold is 35% for a regular pawn, which is greater than the 25% requirement for the quest.

Because keeping mood is important for everybody, both general purpose and (practically) stellarch only methods of increasing mood are included.

'''Ways that don't hinder combat:''' 
''Mostly transposed from the Ship Launch section''
* Clean stuff up. Dirt and blood will quickly lower the Impressiveness of any room they are in.
* Set up a ''polyphasic'' [[schedule]]. This means alternating between Recreation and Sleep, and ''only'' Recreation and Sleep (ex. repeat 3 hours sleep, 5 hours recreation, three times). Colonists will still be able to work once both needs are satisfied, or if you prioritize the work task. The stellarch can't work at all, so there's no reason not to have constant recreation or meditation.
* Have [[lavish meal]]s for everybody. For colonists and guards, [[fine meal]]s will stack with lavish meals. Meals can be eaten regardless of how full a colonist is. You may want to assign colonists and guards to fine meals by default, and manually order them to eat lavish once a day.
* Use [[drug]]s. Nobles can get addicted, and you won't get penalized.
** [[Beer]], [[psychite tea]], and [[ambrosia]] (if you have it) all give positive moodlets at 0 risk of death.
** Use [[wake-up]] if you need stuff done *immediately*, such as repairing the outer walls of your colony. It also gives a {{+|5}} moodlet and restores Rest.
* Watch out for [[ideoligion]].{{IdeologyIcon}} The empire's ideoligion will be different than yours. Don't expect to butcher humans and not peeve off the stellarch. Unless you've edited the empire's ideoligion accordingly.

'''Ways that hinder combat:'''
* All the drugs. Get blackout [[beer|drunk]]. [[Smokeleaf]] becomes a valid option. Yayo and Flake are "safe" - [[overdose]]s are technically a positive, since they render a pawn unconscious. Just beware of the tiny chance of death from a major overdose.
* [[Joywire]]s. Installing a joywire is not considered a harmful operation, and gives a permanent {{+|30}} moodlet. The consciousness penalty does make the target easier to kill, however.
** However, [[psycasts#Word of Joy|Word of Joy]] ''is'' considered harmful, despite being the exact same effect. It gives a {{--|25}} [[goodwill]] penalty with the empire, increased to {{--|30}} if it is towards natural goodwill. But because it lasts for 7 days, Word of Joy can still be viable to use.

Even in the base game, there's always a chance that the stellarch is a [[teetotaler]], so plan ahead. And with the [[Ideology DLC]], the empire's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} will often contain the Drugs: Medical Only or Drugs: Medical / Social [[precept]]. This precept can be removed at the start of the game, but otherwise cannot be circumvented. This precept also makes [[waster]] {{BiotechIcon}} and [[hussar]] {{BiotechIcon}} pawns unhappy taking the drugs they need to survive.

== Ending - Joining the royal court ==
{{Quote|You've escaped on the Imperial shuttle! The high stellarch will now welcome you into the Imperial flotilla as an honored noble party. You might stay in the Imperial court and jockey for political power. Perhaps you'll avoid the drama and focus on enjoying ultratech luxuries. Or, you might even buy a ship and set a course for your long-lost home. '''The choice is up to you. '''|Endgame text after the shuttle containing the Stellarch departs with at least one colonist from the colony inside.}}

Once the onslaught is over, a [[shuttle]] will come pick the stellarch and your colonists up.

While the shuttle's actual loading screen can only fit 1000kg, you can load infinitely many colonists by selecting the colonist, right clicking the shuttle, and clicking "get in the shuttle". The stellic guardians do not need to be loaded into the shuttle, even if they are still alive.

= The Archonexus =
{{Ideology|section=1}}
Awaken the [[archonexus core]], unleashing insurmountable power into the world.

=== Briefing ===
'''Requirements:'''
* The Archonexus quest appears once you have reached $150,000 [[wealth]]. To accept the quest, you must have a colony of at least $350,000 wealth and be allied with a specific [[faction]]. If no factions are available to ally, then "a group of wild people" will offer the quest for no extra requirement.
* Sell your colony for an archotech map piece. If you had multiple colonies, all of them will be sold. You will start a new colony anywhere on the map, and are able to create a new [[ideoligion]]. [[Research]] is reset to Crashlanded.
* You will get all the items from your original [[scenario]], and can bring the following:
** '''5 colonists''', with all their [[apparel]], including any armor (but ''not'' their weapons or utility slot)
** '''5 animals'''. Does not include [[mechanoid]]s{{BiotechIcon}}
**'''1 relic'''.
**'''7 stacks of items'''.
* Get a total of 3 colonies to $350,000 wealth. Study the [[major archotech structure]] and then the [[grand archotech structure]]. These give a mood debuff for nearby pawns who are not psychically deaf, increasing as you get closer. They cannot be destroyed by any means.
* Once the third map piece is obtained, you don't need to restart again. You can travel with all of your current colonists to the [[archonexus core]]. It is guarded by a small amount of [[mechanoid]]s, but they start dormant and do not actually need to be fought. Regardless, the mechs are likely to be little challenge for a colony who has reached the archonexus.

'''Failure conditions:'''
* None, besides a colony wipe.

Overall, the archonexus is the most relaxed of the three endings, but easily the longest. You could do multiple ship launches by the time it takes to reach the archonexus. This quest line should be treated as a "New Game Plus" with your favorite colonists, rather than some form of ultimate ending. Note that increasing wealth still increases the power of standard raids, so you'll have to contend with those for the entire time.

== Gaining wealth/allies ==
Wealth can be gained by simply progressing through the game. Perform vast [[deep drill]] or [[long-range mineral scanner]] operations. Outfit all your colonists with [[bionic]]s and full sets of [[marine armor]] / [[cataphract armor]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}. Build a luxurious base, and wonderously impressive rooms. The [[mechanitor]]{{BiotechIcon}} is a natural way to increase wealth - a mechanoid army is powerful and wealthy. Basically, you don't need to rush it. The more prepared you are for the new colony, the better.

The Production Specialist [[role]] is valuable for increasing [[quality]] of items, which increases both wealth and functionality. A set of masterwork [[charge rifle]]s is bound to boost your wealth by the tens of thousands, and it serves a function. Combine with masterwork/legendary [[sculpture]]s, [[armor]], [[royal bed]]s, and 350k should be hit in no time.

If you still need to make some cash, check out the [[money making guide]]. Important note: colony wealth does not care about actual [[silver]], just [[Market Value]]. As you ''always'' sell at a market loss, selling your goods is actually counterproductive towards increasing wealth.

=== Theoretical wealth transport ===
With all 3 [[DLC]]s active, it is theoretically possible to bring over $350,000 wealth with you to the next colony, in the right set-up. A legendary [[gold]] [[plate armor]] and [[crown]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}, [[thrumbofur]] [[formal shirt]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[pants]], and [[hyperweave]] [[face mask]]{{BiotechIcon}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 37,890. A {{hover title| Archotech eye/arm/leg, bionic heart/ear/spine/tongue, detox lung/kidney, gastro-analyzer, venom fangs, royalty stomach, all brain implants minus joywire, all torso implants inc. death acidifier|full set of bionics}} are worth {{icon small|silver}} 40,607, along with a base of {{icon small|silver}} 1,750 for humans. Note that [[psycast|psylink]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}} and [[mechanitor]] implants{{BiotechIcon}} do not add wealth. With 5 pawns, you'll reach well over 392,000 wealth. This is in addition to the relic, brought items, and animals.

However, you'll need to study the [[major archotech structure]] / [[grand archotech structure]] to completion, ally any requisite factions, and deal with the [[raid]]s boosted by the incredible wealth.

=== Allies ===
You can easily ally any faction within 66 tiles by loading a [[transport pod]] full with valuable goodies like [[flake]]. For a colony with deep drills, a [[ground-penetrating scanner]], and a [[fabrication bench]], the cost of each pod is trivial. By the time you reach the wealth threshold, you should have enough stuff to spare.

If there isn't a [[faction base]] within pod range, then things get a bit harder. You'll have to make a caravan and send stuff this way - flake is great due to how light it is. A transport pod or [[shuttle]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can launch the first leg of the trip, then a [[horse]] can run the rest.

== Founding a new colony ==
You have the freedom to pick any location, and have the ability to reform or make an entirely new [[ideoligion]]. Otherwise...

=== Things to bring ===
* '''5 Colonists'''
With colonists, treat the new colony like... a new colony. You'll want, at the very least, Plants, Construction, Cooking, Medical, and Intellectual roles to be fulfilled. You may want to bring virtually any other skill, too. Of course, you can just bring your 5 favorite colonists and hope things turn out for the best.

It's best not to bring a [[luciferium]] addict to a new colony, or at least, only bring 1 of them.

* '''5 Animals'''
Bring animals that you can feed. Grazers are preferred. Note that [[dryad]]s will vanish after about a quadrum of time.

* '''1 Relic'''
If you have a [[charge rifle]], or any other relic that is a weapon, then bring that. Otherwise, there's no point not bringing whatever relic you already have.

* '''7 Items'''
If your [[scenario]] has food and medicine, then you shouldn't need to worry about those. Materials like [[steel]] and [[plasteel]] can be obtained at any time. Instead, focus on weapons and things that can help rebuild, possibly [[component]]s and [[advanced component]]s. If you started with [[scenario system#Naked Brutality|Naked Brutality]], then you'll need to bring some essentials with you.

See [[#List of items]] for how much you can bring at a time.

=== Studying the archotech structures ===
Considering how long it takes to get to $350,000 wealth again, the actual study of the archonexus should be a non-issue. At the very worst, you can hook a sacrifical pawn up with constant doses of yayo until it finishes the research.

Do not build your colony near the Archotech Structure! A wide area near the structure gives your pawns a major mood debuff and also kills your crops before they can mature. You may want to forbid this area in your assigned Zones.

=== List of items ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! Max Allowed || Value of Max
|-
| [[Beer]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Beer|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Ambrosia]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Ambrosia|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Luciferium]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Luciferium|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| [[Flake]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Flake|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Go-juice]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Go-juice|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Wake-up]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wake-up|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Yayo]] || 200 || {{#expr: {{Q|Yayo|Market Value Base}} * 200}}
|-
| [[Smokeleaf joint]] || 50 || {{#expr: {{Q|Smokeleaf joint|Market Value Base}} * 50}}
|-
| Installable [[body parts]] (organic or artificial) || 1 || {{Q|Archotech arm|Market Value Base}} Any [[archotech]] prosthetic
|-
| Most [[raw food]] [[Pemmican]] [[Kibble]] || 200 || -
|-
| [[Meal]]s Inc. [[Packaged survival meal]]s || 40 || -
|-
| [[Chocolate]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chocolate|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Milk]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Milk|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Insect jelly]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Insect jelly|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Egg]]s (any) || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chicken_egg_(fert.)|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Herbal medicine]] || 20 || {{#expr: {{Q|Herbal medicine|Market Value Base}} * 20}}
|-
| [[Medicine]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Medicine|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Glitterworld medicine]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Glitterworld medicine|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Component]] || 10 || {{#expr: {{Q|Component|Market Value Base}} * 10}}
|-
| [[Advanced component]] || 5 || {{#expr: {{Q|Advanced component|Market Value Base}} * 5}}
|-
| [[Chemfuel]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Chemfuel|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Neutroamine]] || 25 || {{#expr: {{Q|Neutroamine|Market Value Base}} * 25}}
|-
| [[Hay]] || 400 || {{#expr: {{Q|Hay|Market Value Base}} * 400}}
|-
| [[Silver]] || 1000 || 1000
|-
| [[Gold]] || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Gold|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| [[Steel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Steel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Plasteel]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Plasteel|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Wood]] || 150 || {{#expr: {{Q|Wood|Market Value Base}} * 150}}
|-
| [[Uranium]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Uranium|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Jade]] || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Jade|Market Value Base}} * 80}}
|-
| [[Stone blocks]] (any) || 100 || {{#expr: {{Q|Granite blocks|Market Value Base}} * 100}}
|-
| All [[textile]]s (Inc. [[thrumbofur]] and [[hyperweave]]) || 80 || {{#expr: {{Q|Thrumbofur|Market Value Base}} * 80}} [[Thrumbofur]]
|-
| All [[weapons]] || 1 || 18,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Warhammer]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} 13,060 [[Quality|Leg.]] [[Gold]]en [[Longsword]]
|-
| All [[utility]] items || 1 || {{Q|Orbital bombardment targeter|Market Value Base}} Various
|-
| Inert [[relic]]s || 0 || -
|-
| [[Mini-turret]] [[Mortar]] || 0 || -
|-
|}

== Ending - The Archonexus Core ==
{{Quote|You've invoked the archonexus core. The world fills with a blinding light and time seems to slow... 
The machine god has noticed you. Nobody can predict what happens next. It may destroy you, or communicate with you directly, or transport your consciousness to another plane of reality. You sense a vast, inhuman structure of infinite fractal complexity flowing into your mind. '''Time and scale begin to dissolve. It's terrifying. It's beautiful...'''|Endgame text after invoking the Archonexus core.}}

Once activated, the game ends ''permanently''. Unlike with the other 2 endings, you cannot continue with colonists left behind. You can restart from a previous save, if so desired.

= The Void =
{{Anomaly|section=1}}

The void quest is only available if you have '''not''' selected the "Ambient horror" mode of Anomaly in your storyteller settings.

== The Monolith ==

{{Main|Monolith}}

Your map begins with a [[monolith]] structure which is initially dormant. A colonist approaching the monolith will cause an ominous letter notification. If you have moved to another map or added the Anomaly DLC after starting the game, a "Strange Signal" quest will appear which optionally spawns a monolith on your map.

Having a colonist attune to the monolith begins the Anomaly quest in full. You will gain an [[entity]] codex, and the Anomaly [[research]] tree will unlock.

If you chose the [[Scenario_system#The_Anomaly|Anomaly starting scenario]], the monolith will be dormant for several days after landing, but then twist and become active ''automatically'' without approaching it.

== The Codex ==

{{Main|Entity}}

In order to advance, you must encounter and defeat entities in the codex. Encountering entities also reveals hidden research options in the tech tree. Entities can optionally be captured for research progress using [[containment]], but the monolith itself can also be studied for research points. The [[Work|Work tab]] calls this job "Dark Study".

After researching the [[Void provocation]] ritual, you can optionally summon an entity event on your schedule rather than waiting for the storyteller to do it. The ritual prioritizes sending entities you have not encountered.

Once you have encountered '''7 basic entities''' (out of 8), you become able to attune the monolith again. Attuning begins the advanced phase. More dangerous entities can appear from now on.

After you have encountered '''12 advanced entities''' (out of 17), the monolith becomes attunable again. Attuning this last time will awaken the monolith and begin the Anomaly quest endgame.

== Monolith endgame ==

Before attuning you should stockpile food, weapons, and medicine for a week-long colony siege, at minimum. Unnatural darkness will descend on your colony during part of the event, so outdoor farming and hunting will not be easy.

You will have a few days of prep time before the monolith finishes twisting. When the event begins, two [[void structure]]s and multiple [[entity]] patrols appear around your map. Similar to the [[noctolith]]/[[noctol]] events, you will need to foray out of your base and approach each structure. This time, the void structures must be activated rather than destroyed with weapons. Activating a structure is a research-type task that requires a few seconds of work by one colonist. Activating a structure will ''also'' cause an immediate revenge '''entity attack''', such as from [[chimera]]s, [[sightstealer]]s, [[gorehulk]]s, or [[shambler]]s.

After activating both structures, you will be given a two-day break while the monolith twists again. At the conclusion of the break, unnatural darkness will descend on your colony and '''three more void structures''' will appear that need to be activated, this time while also dealing with the darkness.

You technically have unlimited time during this event (if you can survive indoors), so retreat back to your base after destroying each structure to fight off enemies, heal, and regroup as needed. Use tools like [[flood light]]s, [[Disruptor flare pack]]s, and the [[solar pinhole]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} to traverse the darkness easier and weaken any light-sensitive entities.

After you activate the last structure (for a total of 5), the monolith will become a portal to the [[metal hell]] that multiple colonists can enter, but only '''one''' can interact with the Void Node. '''The specific colonist you select is important, see below.'''

== Entering the Metal Hell ==
{{Quote|(name) has activated the monolith and been ripped from our spacetime into another place. (name) finds himself/herself in a room of jagged metallic spikes. Every surface is slick with dark fluid and the air vibrates with power. This metal hell is a connecting channel to an inhuman hyperintelligence.}}

After activating the Void Monolith, the colonist will be teleported to the '''metal hell''', where the [[void node]] is located. ''Keep in mind that all other colonists are still subject to attacks on the outside map.''

Move the colonist over to the center and interact the void node, you will be prompted with two options to conclude the quest.

{{Quote|A writhing sphere of crackling psychic energy rises before (name). Its surface swells and twists, warping the space around it. (name) feels it inside his/her mind, deeper than any normal human sense. It defeats logic and sets him/her adrift in the void. He/She stands on the shoreline of an infinite black ocean of power, and it beckons him/her in. (name) shakes himself/herself back to reality. Nearby archotech devices support the sphere along fragile connections. '''(name) could disrupt them''', closing this link between worlds and putting an end to the terrifying phenomena that have plagued your home. Or, '''He/She could step into the sphere and merge with the void'''. It's unknown what lies beyond, or what dark powers could be gained from such an inhuman act.}}

When an option is chosen, these immediately happens:
* The unnatural darkness on your map lifts
* All [[void structure]]s, void metal mass, void metal floors on your map are removed
* All living [[entities]] on your map outside containment are instantly killed via the destruction of their brain part
** This also instantly kills [[fleshmass nucleus]] and [[nociosphere]], dropping a large amount of materials
** Void monolith, [[harbinger tree]], [[death pall]], [[pit gate]], [[fleshmass heart]], [[blood rain]], [[obelisk]]s, inactive [[unnatural corpse]], [[golden cube]] are not affected
* The metal hell starts collapsing, leading to the chosen ending in few seconds

There is no way to leave the metal hell without choose an ending option.

== Ending - Disrupt the link ==
{{Quote|The psychic flows destabilize and the archotech machinery begins to scream. The swirling void flickers. (name) feels it spilling beyond its limits and collapsing into itself, all at once. The metallic cavern begins to twist, reshaping like the chamber of a massive heart. Before (name) has a chance to scream, he/she blinks out of existence. '''(name) has rejected the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after disrupt the link.}}

Once you confirm disrupt the link, you hear the decompression explosion sounds as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* All factions that you could ally will receive a one-time bonus {{+|50}} goodwill.
* The colonist that disrupted the link gains a {{+|14}} '''Closed the Void''' moodlet for 60 days.
* All other colonists gain a {{+|8}} '''Void Closed''' moodlet for 30 days.
* The void monolith is named "collapsed monolith" and becomes dormant, random Anomaly events return to the same level as before it was awoken.
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points.
* Spawn 10 [[shard]]s around the collapsed monolith.
* Spawn 3 [[monolith fragment]]s around the collapsed monolith.
** They provide additional sources of advanced Anomaly research points, which is useful since most Anomaly events are disabled.
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost.
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared. He/She is weary from his/her efforts, but otherwise healthy. By closing the channel to the void, (name) has stopped any more unnatural phenomena from entering our world. Hostile entities in the area have all fallen to the ground, lifeless. Tales of his/her heroism are sure to spread far and wide.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Ending - Embrace the Void ==
{{Quote|(name) steps into the void and the black ocean floods into him/her, overwhelming every sense, suffusing every cell in his/her body and every thought in his/her mind. The void node has been refocused away from the world, towards one single person. The void structures scream, torn from their otherworldly foundation, then blink out of existence. '''(name) has embraced the void.''' His/Her story continues...|Endgame text after embrace the void.}}

Once you confirm embrace the void, you hear the zapping sounds of the void node as the screen fades to white. The credits roll as the ending theme song plays.

After the credits screen display, the following things will occur:
* Several effects applied to the colonist that embraced the void:
** Gains the '''Void Touched''' hediff:
*** {{Good|100 HP/day}} regeneration
*** Rapidly regrows limbs and organs (like a [[ghoul]])
*** {{Good|×200%}} Study efficiency
*** {{Good|×200%}} Psychic sensitivity
*** Disables the need for sleep
*** Disables the need for comfort
*** Gains the '''Void Terror''' ability:
**** Causes one target pawn to flee in terror until they are exhausted.
**** 5 charges, recovers one charge every 3 hours
*** Set eyes color to grey if no artificial eyes installed
*** The colonist will randomly mutters, like [[creepjoiner]]s with "Disturbing" drawback do, which upsets other colonists with a stackable {{--|2}} mood debuff
** Gains the '''Inhumanized''' hediff (if colonist didn't already have it):
*** Pain {{Good|-50%}}
*** Unable to form social relationships
*** {{Good|-16.0C}} Minimum comfortable temperature
*** {{Bad|-12}} Animals skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Artistic skill
*** {{Bad|-12}} Social skill
*** Disables the need for beauty
*** Disables the need for outdoors
*** Nullifying a large amount of [[thoughts]]
*** Permanent {{+|8}} '''Void Pleasure''' moodlet
*** Can be rehumanized by Brainwipe [[psychic ritual]]
** Gains '''Death Refusal''' with 4 charges
*** Even if the pawn already have 1 charge from Imbue death refusal psychic ritual, it still sets to 4 charges and the 1 charge before is simply lost
*** When killed, activate Death Refusal to self-resurrect, replacing any vital organs. Resurrection sickness and scarring are possible.
** Set hair color to white; can be undo by [[styling station]]
** Gains a {{+|14}} '''Embraced the Void''' moodlet for 60 days
* The void monolith remains active at Level 4; dangerous Anomaly events will continue to occur as your storyteller decides
** The monolith can still be studied for advanced Anomaly research points
* All colonists in the metal hell returns to your colony at the monolith site after a 5 to 10 seconds delay; items dropped in the metal hell are lost
{{Quote|(name) has reappeared.He/She looks withered by the inhuman thought-patterns of the void. All traces of humanity have left his/her eyes. (name)'s mind and body are now permanently linked to the dark void of inhuman rage. Powered by this new connection, (name) no longer feels tethered to mortal needs like comfort or sleep. He/She has gained the ability to induce terror in others using the power of the void. The monolith is awakened. It hums louder with (name)'s reappearance, a reminder that its connection to the void has been opened and made permanent.|Letter after the pawn returned.}}

== Post-Anomaly ==

The game continues normally after completing the monolith quest, allowing you to optionally pursue another ending.

= Colony End =
{{Quote|Everyone is dead or gone. This story is over. Perhaps someone else will find a use for the ruins of this place.|Popup text when there are no controllable colonists left.}}
Whenever all your colonists are dead, kidnapped, or have left the planet, your colony is now abandoned. Does not appear with the archonexus ending or the planetkiller.

When this happens, you have the option to create new wanderers to start the colony again.

= Planetkiller =
{{Quote|At near-lightspeed, the planetkiller weapon slammed into the ground with the force of a trillion hydrogen bombs. Like a water balloon shot with a rifle, this world liquified under the impact and sprayed its molten guts across the cosmos. Part of [planet name] is now a small asteroid belt. The rest is a molten, radioactive hellscape, constantly rippling with kilometers-high planetquakes. '''You did not survive.'''|Popup text after the planetkiller weapon drops into the planet.}}
{{See also|Events#Planetkiller{{!}}Planetkiller event}}
If the Planetkiller is enabled at the scenario, then you will have a certain number of days or years before the planetkiller strikes, shown at the bottom right. Once the timer hits, the entire map will fade to white with the weapon obliterating the rimworld planet, and a message will be shown on your screen to state you didn't survive the impact, only allowing you to return to main menu as it permanently ends your game, regardless whether or not your colonist has escaped.

= Version history =
* 1.1 - Credits now list the memory of colonists who died.
* [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Royal ascent ending added.
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Archotech ending added.
* 1.5 - New wanderers option after a "game over".
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Void ending added.

[[Category:Game mechanics]] [[Category:Guides]]

Ideoligion

2024-06-17T16:31:30Z

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{{Ideology}}
'''Ideoligions''' are both a system of mechanics introduced by, and the primary focus of, the [[Ideology DLC]]. They allow colonies to introduce a variety of new restrictions and capabilities to change gameplay, as well as new interactions with other factions.
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== Type of ideoligion ==
Whenever you start a new game, you will see the Ideology selection menu once you've selected a world tile.

* '''Ideology system inactive''' - Disables most of the Ideology system. Player colonies and factions will no longer have any ideoligion. With this option, you can create any ''style'', or cosmetic variant, of building (click the circle icon in the [[Architect]] tab, right next to the search bar).
:However, some aspects of the ideoligion system remain. You can still assign a [[Roles#Leader|Leader]], and will have access to a funeral and 2 [[ritual]]s - a dance party and drum party.{{Check Tag|Verify|Extremely quick testing}} In addition, there will be 3 randomized [[relic]]s that you can search for.

* '''Create ideoligion (fluid)''' - Design an ideoligion that can change over time.
:A fluid ideoligion only has access to 1 [[meme]] at the start of the game, which cannot be a high impact meme. Otherwise, a fluid ideoligion has the same customization options as a fixed ideoligion. The difference is that a fluid ideology can change over the course of the game. As you gain [[#Development points|development points]], you can add / remove memes, and re-customize just about everything else.

* '''Create ideoligion (fixed)''' - Design an ideoligion with complete control.

* '''Presets''' - Use an ideoligion already created for you. Want to live under the mountain, but don't want to make a full ideoligion? Pick the "Mole people" preset. You will start with a Funeral and 2 other random [[ritual]]s, as well as a random [[relic]]. Other aspects of the ideoligion will also be randomized.
:For example, the "Classic-like" preset will have the following precepts:
<div style="column-count:2; width:600px">
* [[#Corpses|Corpses: Ugly]]
* [[#Insect meat|Insect meat: Despised]]
* [[#Marriage name|Marriage name: Usually man's]]
* [[#Eating nutrient paste|Eating nutrient paste: Disgusting]]
* [[#Physical love|Physical love: Free]]
* [[#Women's spouses|Women's spouses: One only]]
* [[#Men's spouses|Men's spouses: One only]]
</div>

=== Development points ===
{{For|a guide for how to convert a non-fluid ideoligion to a fluid ideoligion via save editing|Fluid ideoligion save conversion guide}}
Fluid ideoligions are mostly the same as a static one, but can be changed over time through development points. When you have enough points, you can reform the ideoligion. It costs 10 points for the first reformation, and increases by +2 per reform until a max of 20 points. You cannot "store" points; once you can reform, no more points are gained.

Development points can be obtained in the following ways:
* Performing [[rituals]]. Rituals will give a varying amount of points depending on if they are "anytime" rituals or "dated" rituals, how many rituals the ideoligion has and the quality of the ritual. If a ritual achieves a goal that awards development points (such as a conversion), both the points for the goal and the ritual are received in full. Anytime rituals (including funerals) give 1 point for a good outcome and 2 points for a great outcome.
Dated rituals grant more points the fewer rituals the ideoligion has, -as detailed below- however Funerals, Gladiator Duels, Blinding, and Scarification rituals '''''Do not''''' count for the following table.
{| class="wikitable"
!
! Terrible
! Boring
! Fun
! Unforgettable
|-
! 1 Ritual
| 2
| 4
| 6
| 7
|-
! 2 Rituals
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
|-
! 3 Rituals
| 1
| 1
| 2
| 3
|-
! 4 Rituals
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 2
|-
! 5+ Rituals
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 1
|}

* Converting someone: 1 point.
Certain [[#Precepts|precepts]] allow an ideoligion to gain points from actions related to the precept.
* [[#Blindness|Blindness: Respected, Elevated or Sublime]]: Blinding someone: 1 point
* [[#Charity|Charity: Worthwhile, Important or Essential]]: Completing charity quests and accepting charity events
** [[Quests#Beggars|Helping beggars]]: 2 points
** [[Events#Wanderer joins|Accepting joining wanderer]]: 1 point
** [[Quests#Hospitality|Giving hospitality]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}: 2 points
** [[Quests#Shuttle Crash|Saving shuttle crash survivors]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}: 3 points
** [[Events#Transport pod crash|Saving a pod crash victim]]: 1 point
** [[Quests#Noble Wimp|Saving the noble wimp]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}: 1 point
** [[Quests#Threatened Joiner|Helping the threatened joiner]]: 2 points
* [[#Execution|Execution: Respected if guilty or Required]]: Executing prisoner: 1 point
* [[#Proselytizing|Proselytizing: Occasional, Sometimes or Frequent]]:
** Converting a new member: 1 point (in addition to the normal 1 point)
** Obtaining a [[Relic|relic]]: 5 points
** Completing the [[Quests#Pilgrims|pilgrims]] quest: 2 points
* [[#Raiding|Raiding: Respected or Required]]:
** Raiding someone: 1 point
** Raiding a bandit camp or work site: 2 points
* [[#Ranching|Ranching: Central]]: Successfully completing an [[Quests#Hospitality|Animal Hospitality quest]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}: 2 points
* [[#Slavery|Slavery: Honorable]]: Enslaving new prisoner: 1 point
* [[#Gauranlen connection|Gauranlen Connection: Strong]]: Planting gauranlen tree: 1 point

Reformation allows you to add ''or'' remove 1 meme, ''or'' change the structure of your ideoligion. If you add a meme, you cannot remove / replace another meme or change structure. In addition, you can only add 1 [[style]] at a time. All other changes are unlimited.

== Forming an ideoligion ==
An ideoligion consists of many separate aspects to customize:

'''Primary'''
* '''[[#Structure|Structure]]''' - What deities (or lack thereof) that followers believe in. Examples include ''Abstract theist'', that "god(s) are formless and everywhere", or ''Christian origin'', which is closer to the Abrahamic religions of the west. Structure helps determine the randomized names and lore of your ideoligion. This is almost entirely cosmetic, but can add a few ritual options.

* '''[[#Memes|Memes]]''' - The basic beliefs of the ideoligion. An ideoligion with the ''Cannibal'' meme will definitely enjoy human meat. Each ideoligion can have up to 4 memes. Most memes do not add much on their own, but affect what precepts the ideoligion has and cannot have. Some memes have access to [[roles|role specialists]].

* '''[[#Precepts|Precepts]]''' - What a follower's belief systems are. Precepts directly determine how colonists will react to certain actions. An ideoligion with ''Cannibalism: Preferred'' will have followers enjoy eating human meat. An ideoligion with ''Cannibalism: Required (Ravenous)'' will want to eat human meat for every meal.
:Certain precepts have statistical effects beyond mood. For instance, ''Drugs: Essential'' boosts drug crop yield, synthesis speed, and sell price. These tend to be locked behind their associated meme.

'''Secondary'''
* '''[[Rituals]]''' - Special occasions, from Dance Party to Animal Sacrifice to Funerals. Every time you do a ritual, you can end up with a good or bad outcome. Good outcomes will increase colonist [[mood]], and come with a special, defined reward. For example, a spectacular festival can give you a random recruit, or cause a [[gauranlen pod]] to sprout.

:You can increase the chances of a good outcomes by following the ritual's requirements. A funeral can be done without your colonist's body, but the quality will be increased if the corpse is buried.

* '''[[#Roles|Roles]]''' - Every ideoligion has a Leader and Moral Guide. From there, you can have up to 2 types of specialists. A Shooting Specialist will be great at ranged combat, but is unable to do many types of skilled work. Note that you can have as many specialists of a specific type as you want. For example, you can have 3 Shooting Specialists in a single colony, but cannot have a Shooting, Plants, AND Research specialist in the same ideoligion.

* '''[[Relic]]s''' - Ideoligions can have relics. Relics can be either Legendary [[quality]] weapons or specific types of items that serve no other purpose. Relics must be found from a specific, multi-part relic hunt quest, which can take many years. Having a relic present will cause a number of benefits.

* '''Buildings''' - Buildings used by your ideoligion: [[altar]]s, [[sacrificial flag]]s, etc. Largely used for rituals. Altars and the like will eventually be demanded by followers of your ideoligion in a temple room.

* '''Preferences''' - Ideoligions can prefer [[apparel]], [[weapon]]s, and [[xenotype]]s {{BiotechIcon}}, as well as venerate specific [[animal]]s. Colonists will like having/being around preferred items. Whenever a colonist will dislike a non-preferred item is dependent on the preference in question.

'''Descriptive'''
* '''[[#Styles|Styles]]''' - How buildings made by an ideoligious builder will look. Largely cosmetic. However, it interacts with the Diversity of Thought precept. If colonists are neutral or bigoted, then they will enjoy being near styles of the same ideoligion. If colonists appreciate Diversity of Thought, they will enjoy being near styled buildings that their ideoligion could not make. Certain styles will affect more or less buildings.

* '''[[#Cultures|Cultures]]''' - Roughly where your ideoligion comes from. Astropolitian represents those coming from space. Corunan represents [[New Tribe|tribes]] in general. Entirely cosmetic.

* '''Lore''' - A randomly generated description of the ideoligion, based off of memes, structures, cultures, etc. Entirely cosmetic.

* '''Icon / color''' - An ideoligion's icon is used whenever an ideology will be displayed. The color of the icon will be a preferred color for followers. Followers gain a {{+|1}} moodlet for wearing their ideology's color, or their own favorite color. All colors require [[dye]] and the same amount of dye.

== Certainty ==
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{{See also|Conversion Power|Global Certainty Loss Factor}}
'''Certainty''' is how willing a colonist is to maintain their current ideoligion. Conversion attempts reduce certainty. Once certainty hits 0%, a pawn's ideology will change.
=== Reassurance ===
Certainty increases by a set rate per day, which is dependent on current [[mood]].
* 1% / day at 20% mood or less
* 2% / day at 50% mood
* 3% / day at 80% mood or more
Between 20% and 80% mood, certainty gain is linearly interpolated.
Certainty does not regenerate while [[deathrest]]ing.{{BiotechIcon}}{{Check Tag|What else?|What else pauses reassurance}}
The [[Roles#Moral Guide|Moral Guide]] of an ideoligion can also reassure pawns of the same ideoligion, which increases certainty based on [[Conversion Power]].
If a pawn is converted, then they will start with 50% certainty in their new ideoligion.
=== Conversion ===
These ways to lower certainty are all considered "Conversion". The certainty reduction is increased by the converter's [[Conversion Power]], and decreased by the user's [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]]. Conversion strength is then multiplied by relevant [[trait]]s. For example, an [[Undergrounder]] will be harder to convert from an ideology with the Tunneler meme.
* Pawns will naturally try to convert each other during day-to-day conversation. This is governed by the [[Ideoligion Spread Chance]], which is increased by the [[#Proselytizing|Proselytizing]] precept.
* The [[role]] of [[Roles#Moral Guide|Moral Guide]] has a "Convert" ability. This is the same as normal conversion, but done on command. This has a cooldown of 3 days.
* If a pawn is held [[prisoner]], you can set the prisoner to Convert in the Prisoner. If there is a warden of the selected ideoligion available, they will start converting the prisoner.
The certainty reduction of a convert attempt can be calculated as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
| '''Certainty loss''' = 6% × [[Conversion Power]] of the Converter × If Converter is [[#Moral Guide|Moral Guide]] ({{Good|x2}}) × [[Global Certainty Loss Factor]] of Convertee × Relic Conversion Power Factor × Trait/Meme Agreeableness × AI Storyteller's Low pop conversion boost multiplier
|}
*'''Relic conversion factor:'''
{| class="wikitable"
! Relic Conversion Power Factor
|-
| {{Graph:Chart|width=200|height=200|yAxisMin=|xAxisMax=10| yAxisTitle=Conversion Power Factor|xAxisTitle=Relics in Reliquaries (#)|type=line|x=0, 1, 3, 5, 10 |y1=1.00, 1.10, 1.20, 1.25, 1.30}}
|}
'''Other certainty reduction''':
These ways reduce certainty by a set percentage. Reduction is not (directly) impacted by Conversion Power or Certainty Loss Factor.
* [[Rituals#Conversion ritual|Conversion ritual]]. Requires a Moral Guide. An effective conversion ritual reduces certainty by 30%. A masterful conversion ritual instantly converts the user to the desired ideoligion. Poor quality rituals instead ''increase'' certainty. The quality of the ritual increases the chance of an effective/masterful ritual; quality is increased by [[Social Impact]] of the moral guide, among other factors.
* [[Crisis of belief]] is an extreme [[mental break]] which immediately reduces certainty by 50%. If certainty reaches 0%, then the pawn will convert to a ''random'' ideoligion - even if you've attempted to convert them to a specific ideoligion prior. Notably, crisis of belief is one of 2 mental breaks that [[prisoner]]s associated with another faction are able to go through. (Colonists who have been arrested can go through other breaks)
* A [[Rituals#Throne speech|throne speech]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} can convert listeners to the speaker's ideoligion.{{Check Tag|Verify|Detail, too}}
[[Children]]{{BiotechIcon}} are a unique case of conversion, as babies have no ideoligion and one is assigned to them once they turn 3. For a more detailed description of how the ideoligion of a child is determined, see the [[Children#Ideoligion|Children]] page.

== Structure ==
Choosing your structure affects which symbols the game uses for your ideoligion, and allows for the selection of some rituals that would otherwise require specific memes. It also influences some random generation options and flavor text but these can be overridden by player selection.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Structure !! Description !! Styles !! Unlocked Rituals !! Chance to Have Precept
|- id="Abstract theist"
! Abstract theist [[File:Abstract theist.png|64px]]
| The god(s) do not have physical form, but are everywhere at once. They know all, and can do anything. Their will defines the moral structure of the universe. || || ||
|- id="Animist"
! Animist [[File:Animist.png|64px]]
| Spirits live in everything around us. In the plants and animals, rivers and trees, sky and stars. The moral structure of the universe springs from the necessity of respecting them. || Animalist || ||
|- id="Archist"
! Archist [[File:Archist.png|64px]]
| Archotechs are the true gods. They know the moral structure of the universe, and serving them is how we will connect with it. || || ||
|- id="Buddhist origin"
! Buddhist origin [[File:Buddhist origin.png|64px]]
| This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Buddhism. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar. || Buddhist || Smokeleaf circle || Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
|- id="Christian origin"
! Christian origin [[File:Christian origin.png|64px]]
| This is a variant of the abstract theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Christianity. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar. || Christian || Christmas tree party || Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
|- id="Embodied theist"
! Embodied theist [[File:Embodied theist.png|64px]]
| The god(s) walk the planets like us, yet they are powerful and immortal as we are not. They decide the moral structure of the universe. || || ||
|- id="Hindu origin"
! Hindu origin [[File:Hindu origin.png|64px]]
| This is a variant of the embodied theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Hinduism. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar. || Hindu || Smokeleaf circle || Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
|- id="Ideological"
! Ideological [[File:Ideological.png|64px]]
| There are no gods. The moral structure of the universe is found in our grand narrative of social forces. || || Symbol burning ||
|- id="Islamic origin"
! Islamic origin [[File:Islamic origin.png|64px]]
| This is a variant of the abstract theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Islam. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar. || Islamic || || Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
|}

== Cultures ==
Cultures affect names, appearances, and symbols.

{| class="wikitable"
! Culture !! Factions Allowed !! Description
|- id="Astropolitan"
! Astropolitan [[File:Astropolitan.png|32px]]
| [[New Arrivals]] || A broad collection of cultures common among frequent space travelers.
|- id="Rustican"
! Rustican [[File:Civil outlander.png|32px]]
| [[Outlander]] Factions || A hardy industrial cultures common among rimworld outlanders.
|- id="Corunan"
! Corunan [[File:GentleTribe.png|32px]]
| [[New Tribe]] [[Tribal]] Factions || An ancient culture common among rimworld tribes.
|- id="Kriminul"
! Kriminul [[File:Pirate.png|32px]]
| [[Pirate]] Factions || A broad category describing the styles and practices of many pirate groups.
|- id="Sophian"
! Sophian {{RoyaltyIcon}} [[File:Empire map marker.png|32px]]
| [[Empire]] Faction [[Ancient]] Factions || A techno-feudal culture centered on the planet Sophiamunda.
|}

== Styles ==
An ideoligion can have 0-3 associated styles. People belonging to that ideoligion will apply those styles when making specific items. Colonists will get thoughts based on the styles of the objects around them, depending on their ideoligion's [[#Diversity of thought|diversity of thought]] precept either for having surroundings match or not match their ideoligion. Neutral surroundings produce no thought. If multiple styles of an ideoligion affect the same object, left-most applies. Note that building appearance in the construction menu will be based on your primary ideoligion, but the actual building might be different if built by a pawn of a different ideoligion.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! style=width:5em | Style !! New buildables !! Affects items !! Affects objects !! Affects ritual ambience sound !! Player-accessible
|-
| [[File:Style Hindu.png|18px]] Hindu
| -
| [[Simple helmet#Styles|Simple helmet]], [[Flak helmet#Styles|Flak helmet]]
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Christian.png|18px]] Christian
| -
| -
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Islam.png|18px]] Islamic
| -
| -
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Buddhism.png|18px]] Buddhist
| -
| -
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Morbid.png|18px]] Morbid
| [[Morbid carpet]], [[Morbid slab (broad)]], [[Morbid slab (medium)]], [[Morbid stone tile]] || [[Recon helmet#Styles|Recon helmet]], [[Marine helmet#Styles|Marine helmet]], [[Cataphract helmet#Styles|Cataphract helmet]]
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]], [[Small altar#Styles|Small altar]], [[Medium altar#Styles|Medium altar]], [[Large altar#Styles|Large altar]], [[Grand altar#Styles|Grand altar]], [[Stool#Styles|Stool]], Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]]), [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Torch lamp#Styles|Torch lamp]], [[Column#Styles|Column]]
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Totemic.png|18px]] Totemic
| [[Totemic boards]], [[Totemic slab (broad)]], [[Totemic slab (medium)]], [[Totemic stone tile]]
| [[Recon helmet#Styles|Recon helmet]], [[Marine helmet#Styles|Marine helmet]], [[Cataphract helmet#Styles|Cataphract helmet]]
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]], [[Small altar#Styles|Small altar]], [[Medium altar#Styles|Medium altar]], [[Large altar#Styles|Large altar]], [[Grand altar#Styles|Grand altar]], [[Stool#Styles|Stool]], [[Dining chair#Styles|Dining chair]], Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]]), [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Torch lamp#Styles|Torch lamp]], [[Column#Styles|Column]]
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Spikecore.png|18px]] Spikecore
| [[Spikecore floor-star (broad)]], [[Spikecore floor-star (medium)]], [[Spikecore plates]], [[Spikecore stone tile]] || [[Simple helmet#Styles|Simple helmet]], [[Flak helmet#Styles|Flak helmet]], [[Flak jacket#Styles|Flak jacket]], [[Duster#Styles|Duster]], [[Jacket#Styles|Jacket]], [[Parka#Styles|Parka]]
| Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]]), [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Torch lamp#Styles|Torch lamp]], [[Column#Styles|Column]]
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Rustic.png|18px]] Rustic
| [[Rustic rug (broad)]], [[Rustic rug (medium)]]
| [[Simple helmet#Styles|Simple helmet]], [[Flak helmet#Styles|Flak helmet]]
| [[Column#Styles|Column]], [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Torch lamp#Styles|Torch lamp]], Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]])
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Animalist.png|18px]] Animalist
| [[Animalist slab (broad)]], [[Animalist slab (medium)]]
| [[Recon helmet#Styles|Recon helmet]], [[Marine helmet#Styles|Marine helmet]], [[Cataphract helmet#Styles|Cataphract helmet]], [[War mask#Styles|War mask]]
| [[Small sculpture#Styles|Small sculpture]], [[Large sculpture#Styles|Large sculpture]], [[Grand sculpture#Styles|Grand sculpture]]
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Techist.png|18px]] Techist
| [[Hex carpet]], [[Hex tile]]
| -
| [[Column#Styles|Column]], [[Plant pot#Styles|Plant pot]], [[Standing lamp#Styles|Standing lamp]], [[Shelf#Styles|Shelf]], [[Autodoor#Styles|Autodoor]], Table ([[Table (1x2)#Styles|1x2]], [[Table (2x2)#Styles|2x2]], [[Table (2x4)#Styles|2x4]], [[Table (3x3)#Styles|3x3]])
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[File:Style Horaxian.png|18px]] Horaxian{{AnomalyIcon}}
| -
| [[Axe#Styles|Axe]], [[Club#Styles|Club]], [[Gladius#Styles|Gladius]], [[Knife#Styles|Knife]], [[Mace#Styles|Mace]]
| -
| No
| No
|}

=== Style dominance ===
Pawns consider objects with style dominance within 27 tiles outdoors, or in the same room regardless of distance. An item is considered "uniform" if pawn's ideoligion can build it, and "diverse" otherwise, regardless of the actual style: for example, a totemic table will be considered diverse for an ideoligion with morbid and totemic styles, because the morbid style overrides totemic tables. If the total style dominance of uniform or diverse objects is at least 10 more than the other category, pawns will get an appropriate thought; the actual style of the object does not matter for stacking either: a morbid slab and a totemic slab in the same room will be uniform for an ideoligion with both styles, cancel each other out and give no thought for an ideoligion with one of those styles, and diverse for an ideoligion with neither.

An ideoligion with no styles would still consider its own buildings (such as ideogram), but not ritual seats, to be uniform.

Clothing, whether worn or placed on the ground, and uninstalled objects have no impact on style dominance.

{{#ask: [[Style Dominance::+]]
| ?Style Dominance
}}

== Memes ==
You must choose one to four memes at the beginning of your playthrough to form the foundational ideas of your ideoligion. Some have much more gameplay impact than others. Hovering over a meme will show you the information in this table.

{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign:top}}
! Meme !! Description !! Impact !! Incompatible Memes !! Required Precepts !! Chance to Have Precept !! Disabled Precepts !! Unlocked Roles !! Required Rituals !! Unlocked Rituals !! New Buildables !! Unlocked Craftables !! Start with Research !! Agreeing Traits !! Conflicting Traits !! Styles
|- id="Animal personhood"
! '''Animal personhood''' [[File:Animal personhood.png|64px]]
| Animals have rights as humans do. ||data-sort-value=3|High || [[#Rancher|Rancher]] || '''[[#Animal connection|Animal connection:]]''' Strong '''[[#Slaughtering animals|Slaughtering animals:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, or Disapproved '''[[#Meat eating|Meat eating:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, or Disapproved || - || - || [[Ideoligion#Animals specialist|Animals specialist]] || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Blindsight"
! '''[[Blindsight]]''' [[File:Blindsight.png|64px]]
| Only those who are blind can perceive true reality. ||data-sort-value=3|High || [[#Darkness|Darkness]] || '''[[#Blind psysense|Blind psysense:]]''' Strong '''[[#Blindness|Blindness:]]''' Respected, Elevated, or Sublime || - || '''[[#Blindness|Blindness:]]''' Horrible '''[[#Lighting|Lighting:]]''' Darklight preferred '''[[#Combat in darkness|Combat in darkness:]]''' preferred || [[Ideoligion#Medical specialist|Medical specialist]] || Blinding || - || - || [[Blindfold]] || - || - || - || -
|- id="Cannibal"
! '''Cannibal''' [[File:Cannibal.png|64px]]
| We must consume human flesh. ||data-sort-value=3|High || - || '''[[#Organ use|Organ use:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Cannibalism|Cannibalism:]]''' Preferred, Required (strong), or Required (ravenous) '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required || - || '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Always horrible or Horrible if innocent || - || - || Cannibal feast || - || - || - || [[Cannibal (Trait)|Cannibal]] || - || Morbid
|- id="Collectivist"
! '''Collectivist''' [[File:Collectivist.png|64px]]
| Each person is part of a greater whole. People should work to play their part and help the group. ||data-sort-value=1|Low || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''[[#Work drive|Work drive:]]''' Tripled || Visage mask: Relaxed || '''[[#Marriage name|Marriage name:]]''' Keep names || - || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Darkness"
! '''Darkness''' [[File:Darkness.png|64px]]
| Bright light burns and destroys! Darkness nourishes and creates. People ought to live in darkness. ||data-sort-value=3|High || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || '''[[#Lighting|Lighting:]]''' Darklight preferred '''[[#Combat in darkness|Combat in darkness:]]''' Preferred || - || - || [[Ideoligion#Mining specialist|Mining specialist]] || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Female supremacy"
! '''Female supremacy''' [[File:Female supremacy.png|64px]]
| Women are the superior gender and should rule. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || [[#Male supremacy|Male supremacy]] || - || Burka: Relaxed Veil: Strong || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || [[Misandrist]] || [[Misogynist]] || -
|- id="Flesh purity"
! '''Flesh purity''' [[File:Flesh purity.png|64px]]
| The human body should not be debased. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || [[#High life|High life]] [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''[[#Drug use|Drug use:]]''' Prohibited '''[[#Body modification|Body modification:]]''' Abhorrent '''[[#Scarification|Scarification:]]''' Horrible || - || '''[[#Body modification|Body modification:]]''' Approved '''[[#Physical love|Physical love:]]''' Free and approved || [[Ideoligion#Medical specialist|Medical specialist]] || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || [[Body purist]] [[Nudist]] || [[Body modder]] || -
|- id="Guilty"
! '''Guilty''' [[File:Guilty.png|64px]]
| Our people carry guilt from ages past. Others are more worthy. ||data-sort-value=1|Low || [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] || '''[[#Pain|Pain:]]''' Idealized '''[[#Charity|Charity:]]''' Essential, Important, or Worthwhile || - || '''[[#Apostasy|Apostasy:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, and Guilty '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Honorable || - || - || Symbol burning || - || [[Torture crown]] || - || - || - || -
|- id="High life"
! '''High life''' [[File:High life.png|64px]]
| Exotic states of mind are central to a good life. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || '''[[#Drug use|Drug use:]]''' Essential || Flophat: Relaxed || '''[[#Drug use|Drug use:]]''' Prohibited, Medical only, or Medical/social only || [[Ideoligion#Plants specialist|Plants specialist]] || Smokeleaf circle || Smokeleaf circle || [[Autobong]] [[Mindbend carpet]] || - || - || [[Chemical interest]] [[Chemical fascination]] || - || -
|- id="Human primacy"
! '''Human primacy''' [[File:Human primacy.png|64px]]
| Humans are the moral center of the universe. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || '''[[#Bonding|Bonding:]]''' Disapproved || - || '''[[#Slaughtering animals|Slaughtering animals:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved '''[[#Killing innocent animals|Killing innocent animals:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, and Disapproved '''[[#Meat eating|Meat eating:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, Disapproved, Mildly required, Seriously required, and Strictly required '''[[#Mining|Mining:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved '''[[#Cutting trees|Cutting trees:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Production specialist|Production specialist]] || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Individualist"
! '''Individualist''' [[File:Individualist.png|64px]]
| Each person is a free individual with the right to their own ideas and decisions. Nobody should be made to conform. ||data-sort-value=1|Low || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] || - || - || '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Honorable || - || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Loyalist"
! '''Loyalist''' [[File:Loyalist.png|64px]]
| We stand for our own before others. ||data-sort-value=1|Low || [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || - || - || - || - || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Male supremacy"
! '''Male supremacy''' [[File:Male supremacy.png|64px]]
| Men are the superior gender and should rule. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] || - || Burka: Relaxed Veil: Strong || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || [[Misogynist]] || [[Misandrist]] || -
|- id="Nature primacy"
! '''Nature primacy''' [[File:Nature primacy.png|64px]]
| Man is a stain on nature's perfection. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || - || - || - || [[Ideoligion#Plants specialist|Plants specialist]] || || - || - || - || - || - || - || Animalist
|- id="Nudism"
! '''Nudism''' [[File:Nudism.png|64px]]
| Clothing binds, controls, and suffocates us. We should all hang free. ||data-sort-value=3|High || - || '''[[#Male clothing|Male clothing:]]''' Fully nude or Pants at most '''[[#Female clothing|Female clothing:]]''' Fully nude or Pants at most || - || - || - || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || [[Nudist]] || - || -
|- id="Pain is virtue"
! '''Pain is virtue''' [[File:Pain is virtue.png|64px]]
| Virtue is shown through suffering of self and others. ||data-sort-value=3|High || - || '''[[#Pain|Pain:]]''' Idealized '''[[#Comfort|Comfort:]]''' Ignored '''[[#Slab bed|Slab bed:]]''' Preferred || - || '''[[#Charity|Charity:]]''' Essential, Important, and Worthwhile '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Always abhorrent and Always horrible '''[[#Scarification|Scarification:]]''' Horrible '''[[#Skullspike|Skullspike:]]''' Disapproved || - || Scarification || Symbol burning || [[Slab bed]] [[Slab double bed]] || [[Torture crown]] || - || [[Ascetic]] [[Tortured artist]] [[Masochist]] || [[Wimp]] [[Gourmand]] || Morbid
|- id="Proselytizer"
! '''Proselytizer''' [[File:Proselytizer.png|64px]]
| It is our duty to spread our beliefs. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || - || '''[[#Proselytizing|Proselytizing:]]''' Occasional, Sometimes, or Frequent || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Raider"
! '''Raider''' [[File:Raider.png|64px]]
| The strong should take from the weak. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || - || '''[[#Raiding|Raiding:]]''' Respected or Required '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Horrible if innocent, Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required || - || '''[[#Skullspike|Skullspike:]]''' Disapproved '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Abhorrent, Horrible, and Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] [[Ideoligion#Melee specialist|Melee specialist]]|| - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Rancher"
! '''Rancher''' [[File:Rancher.png|64px]]
| Raising animals is the right way; raising plants to eat is not. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || '''[[#Ranching|Ranching:]]''' Central '''[[#Meat eating|Meat eating:]]''' Mildly required, Seriously required, or Strictly required || - || - || [[Ideoligion#Animals specialist|Animals specialist]] || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Supremacist"
! '''Supremacist''' [[File:Supremacist.png|64px]]
| Our people should dominate all others. ||data-sort-value=1|Low || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Acceptable or Honorable '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Required, Respected if guilty, or Don't care || - || '''[[#Charity|Charity:]]''' Essential, Important and Worthwhile '''[[#Skullspike|Skullspike:]]''' Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Shooting specialist|Shooting specialist]] [[Ideoligion#Melee specialist|Melee specialist]] || - || Symbol burning || - || - || - || - || - || -
|- id="Transhumanist"
! '''Transhumanist''' [[File:Transhumanist.png|64px]]
| Human progress means merging with technology. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || '''[[#Sleep accelerator|Sleep accelerator:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Neural supercharge|Neural supercharge:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Biosculpting|Biosculpting:]]''' Accelerated '''[[#Age reversal|Age reversal:]]''' Demanded '''[[#Eating nutrient paste|Eating nutrient paste:]]''' Don't mind '''[[#Body modification|Body modification:]]''' Approved || Slicecap: Relaxed || '''[[#Body modification|Body modification:]]''' Abhorrent or Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Research specialist|Research specialist]] || - || - || [[Hex carpet]] [[Hex tile]] [[Neural supercharger]] [[Sleep accelerator]] || - || - || [[Body modder]] || [[Body purist]] || Techist
|- id="Tree connection"
! '''Tree connection''' [[File:Tree connection.png|64px]]
| Trees are the essence of life, and we must be near them. ||data-sort-value=3|High || - || '''[[#Trees|Trees:]]''' Desired '''[[#Rough living|Rough living:]]''' Welcomed '''[[#Temperature|Temperature:]]''' Tough '''[[#Gauranlen connection|Gauranlen connection:]]''' Strong
|| - || - || [[Ideoligion#Plants specialist|Plants specialist]] || - || - || - || - || [[Research#Tree sowing|Tree sowing]] || - || - || -
|- id="Tunneler"
! '''Tunneler''' [[File:Tunneler.png|64px]]
| Humans ought to live underground, and enjoy the succulent fruit of the depths. ||data-sort-value=3|High || - || '''[[#Fungus|Fungus:]]''' Preferred '''[[#Insect meat|Insect meat:]]''' Loved '''[[#Small spaces|Small spaces:]]''' Don't care '''[[#Mining yield|Mining yield:]]''' High || - || '''[[#Mining|Mining:]]''' Prohibited, Horrible, or Disapproved || [[Ideoligion#Mining specialist|Mining specialist]] || - || - || [[Fungal gravel]] || - || [[Research#Stonecutting|Stonecutting]] || [[Undergrounder]] || - || -
|- id="Bloodfeeding"
! '''Bloodfeeding''' {{BiotechIcon}} [[File:Bloodfeeding.png|64px]]
| Drinking blood is sacred. Bloodfeeders should be worshipped. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || - || '''[[#Bloodfeeders|Bloodfeeders:]]''' Revered '''[[#Organ use|Organ use:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Cannibalism|Cannibalism:]]''' Acceptable or Preferred '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || [[Research#Electricity|Electricity]] [[Research#Deathrest|Deathrest]] || - || - || Morbid
|- id="Ritualist"
! '''Ritualist''' {{AnomalyIcon}} [[File:Ritualist.png|64px]]
| There is a greater energy in the universe. Through ritual we can understand it and harness its power. ||data-sort-value=2|Medium || - || '''[[#Psychic rituals|Psychic rituals:]]''' Exalted '''[[#Void study|Void study:]]''' Very efficient '''[[#Research|Research:]]''' Slow, Very Slow or Extremely Slow || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || Morbid
|- id="Inhuman"
! '''Inhuman''' {{AnomalyIcon}} [[File:Inhuman.png|64px]]
| Humanity is a barrier to our connection with the machine god and its pleasurable rewards. ||data-sort-value=3|High|| - || '''[[#Inhumanizing|Inhumanizing:]]''' Required '''[[#Execution|Execution:]]''' Respected if guilty '''[[#Cannibalism|Canibalism:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Corpses|Corpses:]]''' Don't care '''[[#Eating nutrient paste|Eating nutrient paste:]]''' Don't mind '''[[#Skullspike|Skullspike:]]''' Desired '''[[#Slavery|Slavery:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Physical love|Physical love:]]''' Free '''[[#Male clothing|Male clothing:]]''' No rules '''[[#Female clothing|Female clothing:]]''' No rules '''[[#Organ use|Organ use:]]''' Acceptable '''[[#Diversity of thought|Diversity of thought:]]''' Neutral, Mild bigotry, Moderate bigotry or Intense bigotry || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|}

=== Other Faction Customization ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Meme !! Civil outlander !! Rough outlander !! Gentle tribe !! Fierce tribe !! Savage tribe !! Cannibal tribe{{IdeologyIcon}} !! Nudist tribe{{IdeologyIcon}} !! Pirate gang !! Pirate cannibal gang{{IdeologyIcon}} !! Shattered Empire{{RoyaltyIcon}} !! Ancient faction !! Outlander refugee group{{RoyaltyIcon}} !! Beggars & Pilgrims{{IdeologyIcon}} !! Yttakin pirates{{BiotechIcon}} !! Waster pirates{{BiotechIcon}} !! Sanguophages{{BiotechIcon}} !! Horax cult{{AnomalyIcon}}
|-
| Supremacist || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Loyalist || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Guilty || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Individualist || {{Check}}** || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}* || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Collectivist || {{Check}}** || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Transhumanist || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Flesh purity || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Raider || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Proselytizer || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| High life || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Nature primacy || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Human primacy || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Female supremacy || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Male supremacy || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Animal personhood || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Rancher || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Pain is virtue || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Darkness || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Tunneler || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Tree connection || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Nudism || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Blindsight || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}}
|-
| Cannibal || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || '''Required''' || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}}
|-
| Bloodfeeding{{BiotechIcon}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required''' || {{Cross}}
|-
| Ritualist{{AnomalyIcon}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}} || '''Required'''
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| Inhuman{{AnomalyIcon}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || {{Cross}} || '''Required'''
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<nowiki/>* Appears on faction's options but conflicts with required meme 
<nowiki/>** Since only two memes available, one of Individualist OR Collectivist must be chosen

=== Natural goodwill with other factions ===
Additionally, Supremacist and Raider have -50 with everyone, Loyalist -10 with everyone, and Guilty +10 with everyone. There is a +10 bonus for having the same ideoligion.

Modifiers stack, but each pair only applies once; for example Flesh purity + Cannibal vs Flesh purity + Cannibal give +10 for Flesh purity/Flesh purity, +10 for Cannibal/Cannibal, and +10 for Flesh purity/Cannibal.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! !! Individualist !! Collectivist !! Transhumanist !! Flesh purity !! Proselytizer !! High life !! Nature primacy !! Human primacy !! Female supremacy !! Male supremacy !! Animal personhood !! Rancher !! Pain is virtue !! Nudism !! Cannibal
|-
! Individualist
| +10 || -10 || || || -10 || || || || -10 || -10 || || || || || -10
|-
! Collectivist
| -10 || +10 || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
! Transhumanist
| || || +10 || -20 || || || -20 || +10 || || || || || || ||
|-
! Flesh purity
| || || -20 || +10 || || -30 || || +10 || || || || || || || +10
|-
! Proselytizer
| -10 || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
! High life
| || || || -30 || || +10 || || || || || || || || ||
|-
! Nature primacy
| || || -20 || || || || +10 || -30 || || || +10 || -30 || || ||
|-
! Human primacy
| || || +10 || +10 || || || -30 || +10 || || || -10 || || || ||
|-
! Female supremacy
| -10 || || || || || || || || +10 || -30 || || || || ||
|-
! Male supremacy
| -10 || || || || || || || || -30 || +10 || || || || ||
|-
! Animal personhood
| || || || || || || +10 || -10 || || || +10 || -10 || || ||
|-
! Rancher
| || || || || || || -30 || || || || -10 || || || ||
|-
! Pain is virtue
| || || || || || || || || || || || || +10 || || +10
|-
! Nudism
| || || || || || || || || || || || || || +10 ||
|-
! Cannibal
| -10 || || || +10 || || || || || || || || || +10 || || +10
|}

== Precepts ==
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Associated precepts have a chance to appear if a meme is present, but can still be removed if not required.

Some precepts are available to all ideologies, some require at least one of the enabling memes, and some may be unavailable if certain memes are present.

=== Present in every ideoligion ===
There are 19 issues (precept categories) that are present in every ideoligion and may not be removed. However, their level may be changed. They include "basic" precepts from the base game, used in "Play Classic".

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Issue !! Precept !! Description !! Requirement !! Associated !! Effects

|- id="Blindness"
! rowspan="4"| Blindness [[File:Blindness.png|64px]]
| Horrible || Blinding people for ideoligious reasons is horrible. || Not [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || || Colonists gain Mood: Someone got blinded: -2 unless they have the Psychopath or Bloodlust traits
|-
| Respected || To be blind is a moral thing worthy of respect. || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || Colonists gain Moods: Blind (+5), Vision Blocked (+2), or Was Blinded (+3). They also gain a +10 Opinion bonus towards blind pawns, or a -2 Opinion malus to sighted pawns.
|-
| Elevated || The blind stand pure above the sighted. || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || Moods as Respected, but Blind increases to +10 and Was Blinded to +5. Half-Blind (+1) and Not Blind (-3) are added. Opinion bonus towards blind pawns increases to +35 and malus towards sighted pawns increases to -10. Opinion bonus towards half-blind pawns is added (+10).
|-
| Sublime || Only the blind can be truly noble, for the sighted find their minds clouded by physical vision. || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || Moods as Elevated, but Blind increases to +15, Was Blinded to +6. Half-Blind drops to -1, and Not Blind to -6. Opinion bonus towards blind pawns increases to +50 and malus towards sighted pawns increases to -30.

|- id="Cannibalism"
! rowspan="7" | Cannibalism [[File:Cannibalism.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || Eating human flesh is a deeply abhorrent and disgusting act. || || || -20 mood for eating human meat -12 mood for butchering a human -5 mood for a human butchered in the colony -20 opinion for butchering a human -10 opinion for eating human meat -2, -4, -6, -8 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
|-
| Horrible || Eating human flesh is a horrible thing to do. || || || -12 mood for eating human meat -6 mood for butchering a human -3 mood for a human butchered in the colony -10 opinion for butchering a human -5 opinion for eating human meat -2, -3, -5, -6 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
|-
| Disapproved || Eating human flesh is an ugly thing to do. || || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || -5 mood for eating human meat -3 mood for butchering a human -1 mood for a human butchered in the colony -5 opinion for butchering a human -3 opinion for eating human meat -1, -2, -3, -4 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
|-
| Acceptable || Human meat is just meat, like any other. || || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] ||'''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}}
|-
| Preferred || To consume human meat is a noble and necessary part of life. || || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} +2 mood for eating human meat -2 mood for not eating human meat for ? days +1, +2, +3, +4 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
|-
| Required (strong) || Consuming human flesh is important. It should be in every meal. || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} -2 mood for eating food without human meat -3 opinion for eating food without human meat +4 mood for eating human meat -4 mood for not eating human meat for ? days +2, +3, +5, +6 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
|-
| Required (ravenous) || Man-flesh is morality. To eat a meal without it is unthinkable. || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} -4 mood for eating food without human meat -5 opinion for eating food without human meat +6 mood for eating human meat -8 mood for not eating human meat for ? days +2, +4, +6, +8 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing

|- id="Corpses"
! rowspan="2" | Corpses [[File:Precept corpses.png|64px]]
| Ugly || The sight of a dead person is horrible. || || || '''Mood:''' Experiences default {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} upon seeing a [[human]] [[corpse]]. Note that this thought is nullified by the [[Bloodlust]], [[Psychopath]], and [[Cannibal (Trait)|Cannibal]] traits, as well as pro-[[#Cannibalism|Cannibalism]] precepts. Experiences default {{Thought|desc=I saw a rotting corpse laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed rotting corpse|value=-6|stack=5|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}}
|-
| Don't care || The sight of a dead person is nothing to be concerned about. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Raider|Raider]] || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Cannibal|Cannibal]] [[#Raider|Raider]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a dead body laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed corpse|value=-4|stack=3|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}} Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I saw a rotting corpse laying on the ground. It was disturbing.|label=observed rotting corpse|value=-6|stack=5|multi=0.5|duration=0.5}}

|- id="Diversity of thought"
! rowspan="7" | Diversity of thought [[File:IdeoDiversity.png|64px]]
| Intense bigotry || Other beliefs are evil deceptions ruining the world. It's totally unacceptable to let them exist in the community. || || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || -3, -6, or -9 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +3 for having all colonists of the same ideology -25 opinion for different ideology -5 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -4 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +5 mood for matching style surroundings -4 mood for mismatching style surroundings -6 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
|-
| Moderate bigotry || Other beliefs are immoral delusions which do real harm. It's bad to let them exist in the community. || || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || -2, -4, or -6 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +2 for having all colonists of the same ideology -15 opinion for different ideology -4 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -2 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +4 mood for matching style surroundings -3 mood for mismatching style surroundings -4 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
|-
| Mild bigotry || Other beliefs are clearly folly. It's not good to let them exist in the community. || || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || -1, -2, or -3 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +1 for having all colonists of the same ideology -5 opinion for different ideology -3 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -1 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +3 mood for matching style surroundings -2 mood for mismatching style surroundings -3 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
|-
| Neutral || Other beliefs are neither approved or disapproved. || || || -2 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion +2 mood for matching style surroundings 0 mood for mismatching style surroundings
|-
| Appreciated || Other beliefs are worth understanding. It's good to live with others who think differently. || || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || +1, +2, or +3 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +2 mood for mismatching style surroundings
|-
| Highly appreciated || Other beliefs hold unique knowledge. It's great to live with others who think differently. || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || +2, +4, or +6 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +3 mood for mismatching style surroundings
|-
| Exalted || Working through disagreement is the height of morality. It's very moral to live with others who think differently. || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || +3, +6, or +9 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +4 mood for mismatching style surroundings

|- id="Eating nutrient paste"
! rowspan="2" | Eating Nutrient Paste [[File:EatingNutrientPaste.png|64px]]
| Disgusting || Nutrient paste is disgusting. || || || '''Mood:''' Experiences default {{Thought|desc=I had to eat a disgusting, tasteless meal. I know it keeps you alive, but nobody wants to swallow that glop.|label=ate nutrient paste meal|value=-4|stack=1|duration=1}}{{Check Tag|Verify stacking|Does it stack, if yes change stack var as needed}} Note that this thought is nullified by the [[ascetic]] trait.
|-
| Don't mind || There's nothing wrong with a meal of efficient, healthy nutrient paste. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:''' Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I had to eat a disgusting, tasteless meal. I know it keeps you alive, but nobody wants to swallow that glop.|label=ate nutrient paste meal|value=-4|stack=1|duration=1}}{{Check Tag|Verify stacking|Does it stack, if yes change stack var as needed}}

|- id="Execution"
! rowspan=6 | Execution [[File:Execution.png|64px]]
| Always abhorrent || Executing a prisoner is an abhorrent evil under any circumstances. || Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || Pawns will not execute prisoners -20 mood for 6 days for killing a prisoner -3/-4/-6/-7/-7 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest/ripscanning kill on a colonist -3/-4/-6/-7/-7 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest/ripscanning kill on a prisoner or guest -7 mood for 6 days for non-execution prisoner death -25 opinion for executing a prisoner -25 opinion for killing a prisoner{{Check Tag|Moods need verification}}
|-
| Always horrible || Executing a prisoner is a horrible thing under any circumstances. || Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] Not [[#Cannibal|cannibal]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || -15 mood for 6 days for killing or executing a prisoner -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a colonist -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a prisoner or guest -5 mood for 6 days for non-execution guilty prisoner death -15 opinion for executing a prisoner -15 opinion for killing a prisoner{{Check Tag|Moods need verification}}
|-
| Horrible if innocent || Executing an innocent prisoner is a horrible thing. If the prisoner is guilty, it's acceptable. || Not [[#Cannibal|cannibal]] || || -15 mood for 6 days for killing or executing an innocent prisoner -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a colonist -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a prisoner or guest -5 mood for 6 days for non-execution guilty prisoner death -30 opinion for executing an innocent prisoner -15 opinion for killing an innocent prisoner{{Check Tag|Moods need verification}}
|-
| Don't care || Executing prisoners is acceptable, whether they are guilty or innocent. || || ||
|-
| Respected if guilty || Executing prisoners is acceptable. If the prisoner is guilty, it is cause for great happiness. || || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || +10 mood for 6 days for executing a guilty prisoner +3 mood for 6 days for a guilty prisoner executed +20 opinion for executing a guilty prisoner
|-
| Required || Prisoners must be executed on a regular basis. When they are, it is a happy occasion. || || [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || +10 mood for 6 days for executing a prisoner +10 mood for killing a prisoner +3 mood for 2 days for prisoner or guest executed -3 mood for no executions for 30 days +15 opinion for executing a prisoner +15 opinion for killing a prisoner

|- id="Fungus"
! rowspan="2" | Fungus [[File:Fungus.png|64px]]
| Despised || That dark-grown fungus food is just disgusting || Not [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || || Ate fungus raw: -6 Ate fungus cooked: -3
|-
| Preferred || Fungus is the right crop to eat. Crops of the light are poisoned by the air and sun. || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || Ate fungus: +3 Ate cooked fungus: +3 Ate non-fungus plant raw: -5 Ate non-fungus plant cooked: -3

|- id="Insect meat"
! rowspan="2" | Insect Meat [[File:InsectMeat.png|64px]]
| Despised || Insect meat is disgusting to even look at, much less eat. Slimy! || || || -6 mood for eating insect meat -3 mood for eating cooked insect meat
|-
| Loved || There is nothing more divine than the succulent, slimy flesh of an insect || || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || Gives a +6 moodlet when pawns eat meals with insect meat as an ingredient, duration 1 day.

|- id="Marriage name"
! rowspan="6" | Marriage Name [[File:MarriageName.png|64px]]
| Always Man's || Couples must share the man's name. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] || Couples always take man's name
|-
| Usually Man's || Most couples share the man's name || || || As random, but 95% to not consider taking woman's name and 75% to not consider keeping names
|-
| Random || Couples randomly choose whether to share a name, and which name to share. || || || Couples randomly select between taking man's, woman's, or keeping names
|-
| Keep Names || Both partners keep their names upon marriage. || Not [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || || Couples always keep their names
|-
| Usually Woman's || Most couples share the woman's name || || || As random, but 95% to not consider taking man's name and 75% to not consider keeping names
|-
| Always Woman's || Couples must share the woman's name. || || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] || Couples always take woman's name

|- id="Female clothing"
! rowspan=7 | Female Clothing [[File:Nudity Female.png|64px]]
| Fully nude || Women must be entirely nude at all times. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable. || || [[#Male supremacy|Male supremacy]] [[#Nudism|Nudism]] || -4 mood when wearing any clothing and for 0.5 days after removing it -5 opinion for wearing clothes
|-
| Pants at most || Women should cover their groin, but may not cover anything else. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable. || || [[#Nudism|Nudism]] || -4 mood when wearing any clothing except pants and for 0.5 days after removing it -4 mood for not covering groin -5 opinion for wearing clothes other than pants -10 opinion for uncovered groin
|-
| No rules || A woman may display or cover any part of her body. || || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] ||
|-
| Pants || Women must cover their groin. The rest of the body may be covered, or not. || || || -4 mood for not covering groin -10 opinion for uncovered groin
|-
| Pants and shirt || Women must cover their groin and chest. The rest of the body may be covered, or not. || || || -4 mood for not covering groin or chest -10 opinion for uncovered groin or chest
|-
| Pants, shirt, and hat || Women must cover their entire body and hair. The face may be covered, or not. || || [[#Male supremacy|Male supremacy]] || -4 mood for not covering groin, chest, or hair -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, or hair
|-
| Fully covered || Women must cover their entire body, including their hair and face. || || [[#Male supremacy|Male supremacy]] || -4 mood for not covering groin, chest, hair, or face -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, hair, or face

|- id="Male clothing"
! rowspan=7 | Male Clothing [[File:Nudity Male.png|64px]]
| Fully nude || Men must be entirely nude at all times. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable. || || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] [[#Nudism|Nudism]] || -4 mood when wearing any clothing and for 0.5 days after removing it -5 opinion for wearing clothes
|-
| Pants at most || Men should cover their groin, but may not cover anything else. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable. || || [[#Nudism|Nudism]] || -4 mood when wearing any clothing except pants and for 0.5 days after removing it -4 mood for not covering groin -5 opinion for wearing clothes other than pants -10 opinion for uncovered groin
|-
| No rules || A man may display or cover any part of his body. || || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] ||
|-
| Pants || Men must cover their groin. The rest of the body may be covered, or not. || || || -4 mood for not covering groin -10 opinion for uncovered groin
|-
| Pants and shirt || Men must cover their groin and chest. The rest of the body may be covered, or not. || || || -4 mood for not covering groin or chest -10 opinion for uncovered groin or chest
|-
| Pants, shirt, and hat || Men must cover their entire body and hair. The face may be covered, or not. || || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] || -4 mood for not covering groin, chest, or hair -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, or hair
|-
| Fully covered || Men must cover their entire body, including their hair and face. || || [[#Female supremacy|Female supremacy]] || -4 mood for not covering groin, chest, hair, or face -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, hair, or face

|- id="Organ use"
! rowspan=4 | Organ use [[File:OrganUse.png|64px]]
| Totally abhorrent || Any harvesting, trading, or installing natural organs is an abhorrent evil. || || Flesh purity || -30 mood for harvesting someone's organ -10 mood for organ harvested in the colony -30 mood for trading an organ -5 mood for organ traded in the colony -30 mood for installing an organ -4 mood for organ installed in the colony -30 opinion for harvesting an organ -30 opinion for trading an organ -15 opinion for installing an organ
|-
| No harvest or sell || Harvesting organs is a horrible thing. Selling any natural organ is pretty bad too. However, it's okay to buy and install them. || || Flesh purity || -15 mood for harvesting someone's organ -5 mood for organ harvested in the colony -8 mood for selling an organ -2 mood for organ sold in the colony -20 opinion for harvesting an organ -10 opinion for selling an organ
|-
| No harvest || Harvesting organs is a horrible thing. However, it's okay to buy, install, or sell them. || || Cannibal Raider Collectivist || -15 mood for harvesting someone's organ -5 mood for organ harvested in the colony -20 opinion for harvesting an organ
|-
| Acceptable || It's okay to harvest, buy, install, or sell organs. || || Cannibal Raider Collectivist ||

|- id="Physical love"
! rowspan="7" | Physical Love [[File:PhysicalLove.png|64px]]
| Free || Physical intimacy is a natural part of life, with any partner, married or not. || || Individualist
|-
| Prohibited || The physical act of lust is always vile, disgusting, and wrong. || || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || Pawns will not share beds -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' -20 opinion for lovin'
|-
| Horrible || The physical act of lust is vile, though within marriage it is necessary. || || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -20 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse -5 mood for 1 day for lovin' with spouse -5 opinion for lovin' with spouse
|-
| Spouse only (strict) || To make love with another outside of marriage is deeply immoral. || || || Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -20 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
|-
| Spouse only (moderate) || To make love with another outside of marriage is wrong. || || || Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -15 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -10 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
|-
| Spouse only (mild) || Though it's understandable to make love with another outside of marriage, it's not a good thing. || || || Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -5 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -5 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
|-
| Free and approved || The physical act of love is a noble thing, no matter who does it with whom. || Not [[#Flesh purity|flesh purity]] || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || +5 opinion for loving'

|- id="Research"
! rowspan="7"| Research [[File:Research.png|64px]]
| Not allowed || To research technology is an immoral act. It is not to be done. || || || '''Prohibition:''' Pawns are unwilling to research.
|-
| Extremely slow || Research isn't a worthwhile activity at all. Why try hard at it? || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Bad|x0.25}}
|-
| Very slow || Research work is unworthy of serious respect. Better not to be seen trying hard at it. || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Bad|x0.50}}
|-
| Slow || Research work just isn't particularly meaningful. Why try hard at it? || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Bad|x0.75}}
|-
| Normal || Research is a worthwhile form of work that the community needs. || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: '''×1.00'''
|-
| Fast || Research is an especially virtuous activity. || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Good|x1.25}}
|-
| Very fast || Research is among the most meaningful acts a person can perform. || || || '''Stats:''' [[Research Speed]]: {{Good|x1.50}}

|- id="Scarification"
! rowspan="4"| Scarification [[File:Scarification.png|64px]]
| Extreme || Every person ought to bear the ritual scars - all over. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || || +6 mood for getting scarified +3 mood for having 5 scars -3 mood for having fewer than 5 scars +10 opinion for having 5 scars -5 opinion for having 1-4 scars -10 opinion for having no scars
|-
| Heavy || Every person ought to bear the ritual scars - many of them. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || || +5 mood for getting scarified +2 mood for having 3 scars -2 mood for having fewer than 3 scars +5 opinion for having 3 scars -3 opinion for having 1-2 scars -5 opinion for having no scars
|-
| Minor || Every person ought to bear a ritual scar. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || || +3 mood for getting scarified +1 mood for having a scar -1 mood for having no scars +3 opinion for having a scar -3 opinion for having no scars
|-
| Horrible || Scarifying people for ideoligious reasons is horrible. || Not [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || || -2 mood for scarification ceremony in the colony

|- id="Skullspike"
! rowspan="2" | Skullspike [[File:Precept skullspike.png|64px]]
| Desired || A skull on a spike symbolizes our superiority. || || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Raider|Raider]] || Adds a mood increase of {{+|1}} for 1-3 skullspikes, {{+|2}} for 4-8 skullspikes, and {{+|3}} for 9+ skullspikes. Mood effects negated by the [[Masochist]] trait.
|-
| Disapproved || Putting skulls on spikes is a barbaric practice. || Not [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] Not [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] Not [[#Raider|Raider]] || || Adds a mood malus of {{--|1}} for 1-3 skullspikes, {{--|2}} for 4-8 skullspikes, and {{--|3}} for 9+ skullspikes. Mood effects negated by the [[Masochist]] trait.

|- id="Slavery"
! rowspan="5" | Slavery [[File:Slavery.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || Owning or trading human beings is deeply evil. || Not [[#Raider|raider]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''Prohibitions:''' Pawns will not sell pawns into [[slavery]] Pawns will not enslave [[prisoners]] '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We solve{{sic}} someone into slavery. It was an abhorrent, barbaric act.|label=slave sold|value=-10|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=We're keeping slaves. It's barbaric.|label=slaves in colony|value=-3}}, per slave. Does not apply to quest lodgers. '''Opinion:''' {{--|20}} for selling a pawn into slavery {{--|20}} opinion for enslaving a pawn
|-
| Horrible || Owning or trading human beings is a horrible thing. || Not [[#Raider|raider]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We're keeping slaves. It's wrong.|label=slaves in colony|value=-2}}, per [[slave]]. Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=I sold a person into slavery. I'm not sure I can forgive myself.|label=sold slave|value=-10|stack=1|duration=6}} {{Thought|desc=I forced someone into slavery. How can I justify that?|label=enslaved prisoner|value=-10|stack=1|duration=6}} (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) {{Thought|desc=We sold someone into slavery. What a horrible thing to do.|label=slave sold|value=-3|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=We enslaved someone. What a horrible thing to do to another human.|label=prisoner enslaved|value=-3|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. '''Opinion:''' {{--|10}} for selling a pawn into slavery {{--|10}} opinion for enslaving a pawn
|-
| Disapproved || Slavery is part of life, though it is extremely distasteful. || Not [[#Raider|raider]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We're keeping slaves. Even if it's necessary, it's distasteful and I wish we wouldn't.|label=slaves in colony|value=-1}}, per [[slave]]. Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=I sold a person into slavery. I hope nothing terrible happens to them.|label=sold slave|value=-5|stack=1|duration=6}} {{Thought|desc=I enslaved a person. It's hard to justify such actions.|label=enslaved prisoner|value=-5|stack=1|duration=6}} (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) {{Thought|desc=We sold a person into slavery. We shouldn't have done that.|label=slave sold|value=-2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=We enslaved someone. We shouldn't have done that.|label=prisoner enslaved|value=-2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. '''Opinion:''' {{--|5}} for selling a pawn into slavery {{--|5}} opinion for enslaving a pawn
|-
| Acceptable || Slavery is a normal, unremarkable part of life. || || || ''No mood or opinion effects for enslaving, buying, or selling slaves.''
|-
| Honorable || One who owns and trades slaves should be honored and respected. || Not [[#Guilty|guilty]] Not [[#Individualist|individualist]] || [[#Supremacist|Supremacist]] [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=We've got slaves. It means we're on the right path.|label=slaves in colony|value=+1}}, per [[slave]] {{Thought|desc=Without slaves, nobody will respect us.|label=no slaves in colony|value=-2|stack=1}}, if Low [[expectations]] or higher {{Thought|desc=I sold someone into slavery. It'll make people notice my stature.|label=sold slave|value=+4|stack=1|duration=6}} {{Thought|desc=I took someone into slavery. With no choice, they had to submit to me.|label=enslaved prisoner|value=+4|stack=1|duration=6}} (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) {{Thought|desc=We sold someone into slavery! A great display of our honor and power.|label=slave sold|value=+2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide) {{Thought|desc=We enslaved someone. Now they know our honor and power!|label=prisoner enslaved|value=+2|stack=5|multi=0.75|duration=6}} (Colony wide) '''Opinion:''' {{+|10}} for selling a pawn into slavery {{+|10}} opinion for enslaving a pawn

|- id="Women's spouses"
! rowspan=5 | Women's spouses [[File:SpouseCountFemale.png|64px]]
| One only || Women may have one spouse only. || || ||
|-
| Two or fewer || Women may have up to two spouses. || || [[#Female Supremacy|Female supremacy]] ||
|-
| Three or fewer || Women may have up to three spouses. || || [[#Female Supremacy|Female supremacy]] ||
|-
| Four or fewer || Women may have up to four spouses. || || [[#Female Supremacy|Female supremacy]] ||
|-
| Unlimited || Women may have as many spouses as they like. || || [[#Female Supremacy|Female supremacy]] ||

|- id="Men's spouses"
! rowspan=5 | Men's spouses [[File:SpouseCountMale.png|64px]]
| One only || Men may have one spouse only. || || ||
|-
| Two or fewer || Men may have up to two spouses. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] ||
|-
| Three or fewer || Men may have up to three spouses. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] ||
|-
| Four or fewer || Men may have up to four spouses. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] ||
|-
| Unlimited || Men may have as many spouses as they like. || || [[#Male Supremacy|Male supremacy]] ||
|}

=== Optional ===
These precepts can be added through memes or by player choice.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Issue !! Precept !! Description !! Requirement !! Associated !! Effects

|- id="Slaughtering animals"
! rowspan="3"| Slaughtering animals [[File:AnimalSlaughter.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Slaughtering animals is absolutely prohibited. || || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || '''Prohibitions:''' Slaughter animal '''Mood:''' Someone slaughtered an animal: -4 '''Opinions:''' Slaughtered animal: -10
|-
| Horrible || To slaughter an animal is a horrible thing. || || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || '''Mood:''' Slaughtered animal: -15 Someone slaughtered an animal: -2 '''Opinions:''' Slaughtered animal: -5
|-
| Disapproved || To slaughter an animal is an ugly thing. || || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || '''Mood:''' Slaughtered animal: -5 Someone slaughtered an animal: -1 '''Opinions:''' Slaughtered animal: -3

|- id="Apostasy"
! rowspan="3"| Apostasy [[File:Apostasy.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || To leave our ideoligion after having known it is the depth of immorality. || Not [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Opinions:''' Changed ideoligion: -30 Apostate: -10 [[Global certainty loss factor]]: x40%
|-
| Horrible || To leave our ideoligion after having known it indicates deep moral flaws. || Not [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Opinions:''' Changed ideoligion: -15 Apostate: -5 [[Global certainty loss factor]]: x60%
|-
| Disapproved || To leave our ideoligion after having known it indicates character flaws. || Not [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || [[#Loyalist|Loyalist]] [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Opinions:''' Changed ideoligion: -8 Apostate: -3 [[Global certainty loss factor]]: x80%

|- id="Autonomous weapons"
! rowspan="3"| Autonomous weapons [[File:AutonomousWeapons.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Allowing a machine to decide to kill is an absolutely inhuman thing to do. || || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Cannot build Turrets Colonists gain Mood: Automated Turret in Colony: -12
|-
| Horrible || Allowing a machine to decide to kill is a terrible thing. || || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Colonists gain Mood: Automated Turret in Colony: -8
|-
| Disapproved || Allowing a machine to decide to kill is an ugly thing. || || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Colonists gain Mood: Automated Turret in Colony: -4

|- id="Body modification"
! rowspan="3"| Body modification [[File:BodyModifications.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || To modify the natural human body is a flagrant violation of clear moral laws. || Not [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Colonists gain a -30 mood penalty for a prosthetic, or -18 for an artificial part. They also have a -80 opinion malus towards any pawn with a prosthetic or artificial part. These do not apply if the pawn is not a Body Modder. Xenogenes trigger this mood penalty if they are not inheritable.
|-
| Disapproved || To modify the natural human body is an ugly, dirty act. || Not [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || As Abhorrent, but mood penalties are reduced to -5 and -4 respectively. Opinion maluses are reduced to -10. These do not apply if the pawn is not a Body Modder. Xenogenes trigger this mood penalty if they are not inheritable.
|-
| Approved || Humans should strive to reach our full potential by improving our flawed natural bodies. || Not [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || +1/+1/+2/+2/+3 mood for 1/2/3/4/5+ artificial parts (bonus disabled for Body Modder) -3 mood for zero artificial parts if expectations ≥ Moderate (penalty disabled for Body Purist) -3 opinion for zero artificial parts if expectations ≥ Moderate (disabled for Body Purist) {{Check Tag|Xenogenes?|Xenogens count as artificial for body modder/purist traits, do they also count for ideo?}}

|- id="Charity"
! rowspan=3| Charity [[File:Charity.png|64px]]
| Essential || We must always be charitable to those in need. To refuse one would be an inhuman act, no matter the circumstances. || Not [[#Supremacist|supremacist]] Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || -8 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest">Charity quest is one marked as such in the quest log, and includes: beggars, relic pilgrims, joining wanderer, crashing shuttle, pod crash refugee, refugees, chased noble, and joining wanderer in danger</ref> -12 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +4 mood for helping on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/>
|-
| Important || It's important to be charitable to those in need. Refusing to help is a terrible act. || Not [[#Supremacist|supremacist]] Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || -4 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/> -8 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +2 mood for helping on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/>
|-
| Worthwhile || Helping those in need is a good thing. It makes the community stronger. || Not [[#Supremacist|supremacist]] Not [[#Pain is virtue|pain is virtue]] || [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || -2 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/> -6 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +1 mood for helping on a charity quest<ref group="Optional precepts" name="Charity quest"/>

|- id="Drug use"
! rowspan=4| Drug use [[File:DrugUse.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || The body should absolutely not be poisoned by chemicals. The only exception is the use of medicine in direct medical care. || Not [[#High life|high life]] || [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || {{--|15}} mood for 3 days for using a [[drug]] {{--|15}} mood for 3 days for administering a drug -3 opinion for 5 days for using a drug -3 opinion for 5 days for administering a drug Pawns are unwilling to take drugs Pawns are unwilling to administer drugs
|-
| Medical only || Poisoning the body for recreational purposes is a deeply immoral act. || Not [[#High life|high life]] || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || {{--|15}} mood for 3 days for using a recreational (Non-[[Medical drugs|Medical]]) drug {{--|15}} mood for 3 days for administering a recreational drug -5 opinion for 5 days for using a recreational drug -5 opinion for 5 days for administering a recreational drug Pawns are unwilling to take recreational drugs Pawns are unwilling to administer recreational drugs
|-
| Medical or social only || A drink with a smoke is fine, especially with friends, but poisoning the body with powerful chemicals is wrong. || Not [[#High life|high life]] || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || {{--|15}} mood for 3 days for using a [[hard drug]] {{--|15}} mood for 3 days for administering a hard drug -8 opinion for 5 days for using a hard drug -8 opinion for 5 days for administering a hard drug Pawns are unwilling to take hard drugs Pawns are unwilling to administer hard drugs
|-
| Essential || Exotic states of mind are central to a good life. || [[#High life|High life]] || [[#High life|High life]] || x1.5 drug plant harvest yield x1.5 [[drug synthesis speed]] +10% drug sell price {{+|3}} mood for having taken a drug{{Check Tag|Recreational only?|Does taking a medical drug like penox or luci count to prevent this penalty?}} within 0.75 days Linearly increasing mood penalty for not having taken drugs recently, starting at {{--|1}} after 2 days, up to {{--|10}} mood after 11 days.

|- id="Combat in darkness"
! Combat in darkness [[File:DarknessCombat.png|64px]]
| Preferred || We fight better in the dark. || Not [[#Blindsight|blindsight]] || [[#Darkness|Darkness]] || [[Weapons#Accuracy|Ranged chance to hit]] {{+|25%}} in the dark, {{--|20%}} in the light [[Melee hit chance]] {{+|10%}} in the dark, {{--|10%}} in the light [[Melee dodge chance]] {{+|10%}} in the dark, {{--|10%}} in the light

|- id="Cutting trees"
! rowspan=3 | Cutting trees [[File:Precept tree cutting.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || To violate the forest by cutting down a tree is a deeply abhorrent act and should never be done. || Not [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables logging camps. Pawns will not cut trees -4 mood for 3 days for a tree cut -4 mood for 3 days for an uprooted tree dying -10 opinion for cutting a tree
|-
| Horrible || To cut down a tree is a horrible act. || Not [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables logging camps. -10 mood for 3 days for cutting a tree -2 mood for 3 days for a tree cut -2 mood for 3 days for an uprooted tree dying -5 opinion for cutting a tree
|-
| Disapproved || To cut down a tree is a distasteful thing to do. || Not [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables logging camps. -5 mood for 3 days for cutting a tree -1 mood for 3 days for a tree cut -1 mood for 3 days for an uprooted tree dying -3 opinion for cutting a tree

|- id="Killing innocent animals"
! rowspan="3" | Killing innocent animals [[File:KillingInnocentAnimals.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || To kill an innocent animal is a horrifically inhuman act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || Disables hunting camps Pawns will not attack innocent animals -4 mood for 6 days if innocent animal is killed -15 opinion for killing innocent animal
|-
| Horrible || To kill an innocent animal is a horrible act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || Disables hunting camps -15 mood for killing an innocent animal -2 mood for 6 days if innocent animal is killed -10 opinion for killing innocent animal
|-
| Disapproved || To kill an innocent animal is an ugly act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] || Disables hunting camps -5 mood for killing an innocent animal -1 mood for 6 days if innocent animal is killed -5 opinion for killing innocent animal

|- id="Lighting"
! Lighting [[File:Lighting.png|64px]]
| Darklight preferred || Normal lights are too bright. Darklights are better. || Not [[#Blindsight|blindsight]] || [[#Darkness|Darkness]] || +4 mood with Darklight -4 mood in dim light -8 mood in bright light. No modifier for Darkness. Surgery penalty without Darklight. Disables low-[[light]] [[move speed]] penalties Disables low-[[light]] [[global work speed]] penalties

|- id="Meat eating"
! rowspan=6 | Meat eating [[File:MeatEating.png|64px]]
| Abhorrent || Eating meat of any kind is deeply evil. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables hunting camps -24 mood for 1 day for eating meat -15 opinion for eating meat
|-
| Horrible || Eating meat of any kind is a horrible act. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables hunting camps -12 mood for 1 day for eating meat -10 opinion for eating meat
|-
| Disapproved || Eating meat of any kind should be avoided. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables hunting camps -4 mood for 1 day for eating meat -5 opinion for eating meat
|-
| Mildly required || Every meal ought to have meat. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] (but conflicts) [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables farming camps -4 mood for 1 day for eating food without meat -5 opinion for eating food without meat
|-
| Seriously required || Every meal must have meat. Eggs, milk, and processed food are okay as well. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] (but conflicts) [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables farming camps -10 mood for 1 day for eating food without meat -10 opinion for eating food without meat
|-
| Strictly required || If a meal doesn't have meat, the person who eats it must be morally deficient. Eggs, milk, and processed foods are fine. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] (but conflicts) [[#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]] || Disables farming camps -16 mood for 1 day for eating food without meat -15 opinion for eating food without meat

|- id="Mining"
! rowspan=3 | Mining [[File:Mining.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Raping the natural earth with mining tools is a horrifically evil act. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] Not [[#Tunneler|tunneler]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables mining camps Pawns will not mine -40 mood for 2 days for destroying a natural wall -4 mood for 2 days for a block mined a colony -15 opinion for mining a block
|-
| Horrible || Violating the natural earth with mining tools is a horrible act. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] Not [[#Tunneler|tunneler]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables mining camps -20 mood for 2 days for mining a block -20 mood for 2 days for destroying a natural wall -2 mood for 2 days for a natural wall destroyed a colony -10 opinion for destroying a natural wall
|-
| Disapproved || Mining into the natural earth is an ugly act. || Not [[#Human primacy|human primacy]] Not [[#Tunneler|tunneler]] || [[#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]] || Disables mining camps -3 mood for 2 days for mining a block -3 mood for 2 days for destroying a natural wall -1 mood for 2 days for a natural wall destroyed a colony -5 opinion for destroying a natural wall

|- id="Raiding"
! rowspan=2 | Raiding [[File:Raiding.png|64px]]
| Respected || We don't work like common laborers, we take from the weak as the strong should. Failing to do so is a mark of shame. || || || '''Mood:''' {{+|3}} mood for 5 days for participating in a raid {{+|6}} mood for a raid less than 25 days ago {{--|6}} mood for a raid more than 25 days ago '''Stats:''' [[Global work speed]] {{--|8%}}
|-
| Required || We don't work like common laborers, we take from the weak as the strong should. Failing to do so is a tremendous shame. || || || '''Mood:''' {{+|6}} mood for 5 days for participating in a raid {{+|12}} mood for a raid less than 25 days ago {{--|12}} mood for a raid more than 25 days ago '''Stats:''' [[Global work speed]] {{--|16%}}

|- id="Trees"
! Trees [[File:Trees.png|64px]]
| Desired || It's essential to live surrounded by beautiful trees. || || [[#Tree connection|Tree connection]] || Gives a thought, scaling from -5 to +9 for having (or not having) many trees on the map Gives a thought, scaling from 0 to -20 for the number of trees chopped in the last quadrum

|- id="Biosculpting"
! rowspan="2" | Biosculpting [[File:Precept biosculpting.png|64px]]
| Despised || Biosculpter pods violate the purity human flesh and should never be used. || Not [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=My body was despoiled by the use of a biosculpter pod.|label=used biosculpter pod|value=-8|stack=1|duration=12}} after using [[biosculpter pod]].
|-
| Accelerated || All biosculpting cycles take half the usual time. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || All biosculpting cycles take half the usual time.

|- id="Growth vats"
! rowspan="2"| Growth vats{{BiotechIcon}} [[File:GrowthVats.png|64px]]
| Prohibited || Growth vats rob children of their childhood. || || || '''Prohibitions:''' Build growth vat '''Mood:''' Growth vat in colony: {{--|3}} My child in a growth vat: {{--|8}}. Nullifying trait: [[Psychopath]]. Stack Limit: 3 Child not in growth vat: {{+|1}}. Stack Limit: 3
|-
| Essential || We have the technology for safer childbirth and faster childhoods. Believers will develop faster in growth vats but will be unhappy if their children are not in a vat. || || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:''' Natural pregnancy: {{--|5}}. Minimum [[expectations]]: Moderate Child not in growth vat: {{--|2}}. Stack Limit: 3. Minimum [[expectations]]: Moderate '''Stats:''' Growth vat occupant speed: {{Good|x130%}} (only to pawns with the ideoligion; [[embryo]]s / [[babies]] are not boosted)

|- id="Bloodfeeders"
! rowspan="2"| Bloodfeeders{{BiotechIcon}} [[File:Bloodfeeders.png|64px]]
| Revered || Bloodfeeders should be worshipped. Believers will be happy if there is a bloodfeeder in the colony and will not mind being fed upon. || || || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=The bloodfeeders stand above us, yet one has died here. We will surely be punished for this.|label=bloodfeeder died|value=-2|stack=3|duration=10}} (Colony wide) when a bloodfeeder dies.{{Check Tag|Any faction?|Does the bloodfeeder have to be of the player faction? Any allied faction? Any faction at all including enemies?}}. {{Thought|desc=Let them worship me. Feeding upon them places them below me, as animals are below humans.|label=revered bloodfeeder|value=+4|stack=1}} for being a bloodfeeder. {{Thought|desc=Without a bloodfeeder master, our colony feels incomplete and pointless. We should make a bloodfeeder our leader.|label=no bloodfeeders|value=-2|stack=1}} (Colony wide) for having no bloodfeeders in the colony. {{Thought|desc=Without a bloodfeeder master, our colony feels incomplete and pointless. We should make a bloodfeeder our leader.|label=no bloodfeeder master|value=-1|stack=1}} (Colony wide) for having bloodfeeders in the colony, but not as the [[#Leaders|leader]]. {{Thought|desc=The bloodfeeder's presence is a great honor. May they live forever.|label=bloodfeeder master|value=+2|stack=1}} (Colony wide) for having A bloodfeeder as the [[#Leaders|leader]]. Nullifies {{Thought|desc=I was violated by a bloodfeeder like some kind of livestock.|label=fed on by <NAME>|value=-5|stack=1|duration=5}}{{Check Tag|Stacking?|Check if it stacks, change stack var as appropriate}} '''Opinions:''' {{+|20}} for being a Bloodfeeder
|-
| Reviled || Anyone who drinks blood to survive is a monster. || || || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=The only good bloodfeeder is a dead one.|label=bloodfeeder died|value=+5|stack=3|duration=10}} (Colony wide) when a bloodfeeder dies. {{Thought|desc=I am what I hate. I must rid myself of this curse.|label=bloodfeeder self hatred|value=-12|stack=1}} for being a bloodfeeder. {{Thought|desc=One of them walks among us. We should expel the bloodfeeder from our home.|label=bloodfeeder among us|value=-8|stack=1}} (Colony wide) for having a bloodfeeder in the colony. '''Opinions:''' {{--|40}} for being a Bloodfeeder

|- id="Child labor"
! rowspan="2"| Child labor{{BiotechIcon}} [[File:ChildLabor.png|64px]]
| Encouraged || Children build character through work. It's important for everyone to contribute.|| || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || '''Mood:''' Child assigned recreation: {{--|3}}. Adults only. '''Stats:''' [[Global Work Speed]]: {{+|20%}}. [[Children]] only
|-
| Disapproved || Childhood is sacred. We should let kids be kids. || || [[#Individualist|Individualist]] || '''Mood:''' Child assigned work: {{--|3}}. Adults only. '''Stats:''' Learning Rate Factor: {{+|20%}}. [[Children]] only

|- id="Mechanoid labor"
! Mechanoid labor{{BiotechIcon}} [[File:MechanoidLabor.png|64px]]
| Enhanced || Why should we work when we have machines? || || || '''Stats:''' [[Global Work Speed]]: {{--|8%}}. Mechanoid [[Global Work Speed]]: {{+|20%}}.
|-
|}
<references group="Optional precepts"/>

=== Meme-specific ===
These issues and their precepts can only be added by having a specific meme, and cannot be removed as long as the meme is present.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Issue !! Precept !! Description !! Meme !! Effects

|- id="Age reversal"
! Age reversal [[File:AgeReversal.png|64px]]
| Demanded || Why get old? One must have a once-yearly age reversal treatment in the biosculpter pod. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=I'm getting old. I should get an age reversal in a biosculpter pod.|label=harmful aging|value=-4|stack=1}}, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year. {{Thought|desc=My youth is draining away. I should get an age reversal in a biosculpter pod.|label=terrible aging|value=-7|stack=1}}, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year and 15 days. {{Thought|desc=I am trapped in a decaying prison of flesh! I need to get an age reversal in a biosculpter pod.|label=horrific aging|value=-10|stack=1}}, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year and 30 days. {{Thought|desc=Aging and death have no hold on me. I am forever, as an enhanced human ought to be.|label=received age reversal|value=+3|stack=1|duration=4}} after age reversal. '''Notes:''' Initial colonists, newly generated pawns (due to events, quests, raids, etc.), as well as pawns after changing map due to Archonexus quest have a 20 to 40 day grace period before they start demanding age reversal (it will replace their age reversal demanded date, even if it would come after that period). Whenever a pawn's faction or ideology change they'll get a 15-20 day grace period before they start demanding age reversal (unless their next age reversal demanded date will come after that period).

|- id="Animal connection"
! Animal connection [[File:Precept animal connection.png|64px]]
| Strong || We have a strong connection to our animal friends || [[#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]] ||
* 2x [[Tame Animal Chance]]
* 2x Animal Bonding Chance

|- id="Blind psysense"
! Blind psysense [[File:BlindPsysense.png|64px]]
| Strong|| Our blind have special ways of connecting with the psychic aether || [[#Blindsight|Blindsight]] || '''Stats:''' [[Psychic Sensitivity]]: {{+|30%}} for [[Sight|blind]] pawns.

|- id="Bonding"
! Bonding [[File:Bonding.png|64px]]
| Disapproved || To emotionally bond with a lower being is a shameful act || [[#Human primacy|Human primacy]] || Disables [[Animals#Bonding|animal bonding]] event for pawns with ideology. Does '''not''' disable pre-existing bonds or disable their [[thoughts]].

|- id="Comfort"
! Comfort [[File:Comfort.png|64px]]
| Ignored || We should pay no attention to comfort || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain Is Virtue]] || Disables [[comfort]] need, and comfort-related thoughts, both positive and negative

|- id="Eclipse"
! Eclipse [[File:Precept Eclipse.png|64px]]
| Beautiful || Eclipses are a beautiful respite from the blinding sunlight. || [[#Darkness|Darkness]] ''unless'' [[#Blindsight|blindsight]] || {{+|5}} mood for seeing an [[eclipse]]

|- id="Gauranlen connection"
! Gauranlen connection [[File:GauranlenConnection.png|64px]]
| Strong || We have a special connection with the Gauranlen trees. The trees refocus production easily under our influence, and we are not satisfied unless we have that connection. || [[#Tree connection|Tree connection]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=I am happily connected to a Gauranlen tree.|label=Gauranlen connection|value=+3|stack=1}} when connected to [[Gauranlen tree]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-0|stack=1}}, at Very Low [[expectations]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-1|stack=1}}, at Low [[expectations]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-2|stack=1}}, at Moderate [[expectations]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-4|stack=1}}, at High [[expectations]]. {{Thought|desc=Without a connection to a Gauranlen tree, I feel disconnected from nature.|label=want Gauranlen connection|value=-6|stack=1}}, at Sky High [[expectations]]. '''Stats:''' [[Pruning speed]]: {{+|25%}}

|- id="Mining yield"
! Mining yield [[File:MiningYield.png|64px]]
| High || Mining is so important that we do it with great focus and respect, and we get more resources because of that. || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || '''Stats:''' [[Mining yield]]: {{+|10%}}

|- id="Neural supercharge"
! Neural supercharge [[File:NeuralSupercharger.png|64px]]
| Preferred || Having a neural supercharge is the new standard. Without it, you're obsolete. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=Without a neural supercharge, I'm running below my true capacity. It's depressing.|label=want neural supercharge|value=-6|stack=1}} whenever 2+{{Check Tag|Verify time|Is it two days?}} days have passed since [[Neural supercharger|neural supercharging]], assuming Moderate [[expectations]] or higher.

|- id="Pain"
! Pain [[File:Pain.png|64px]]
| Idealized || To experience nerve-singing pain is a mark of morality. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] [[#Guilty|Guilty]] || '''Mood:''' {{Thought|desc=The pain grounds me. I appreciate it|label=minor pain|value=+3|stack=1}}, [[pain]] between 1% and 14% inclusive. Replaces default {{--|5}} {{Thought|desc=The pain cleanses me. I like it.|label=serious pain|value=+5|stack=1}}, [[pain]] between 15% and 39% inclusive. Replaces default {{--|10}} {{Thought|desc=The pain purifies me. I need it!|label=intense pain|value=+7|stack=1}}, [[pain]] between 40% and 79% inclusive. Replaces default {{--|15}} {{Thought|desc=The pain makes me sublime! I wish to become it!|label=mind-shattering pain|value=+9|stack=1}}, [[pain]] of 80%+. Replaces default {{--|20}} '''Note:''' These thoughts are replaced by the [[Masochist]] specific thoughts for pawns with that trait, and with the default values for [[Wimp]]s.

|- id="Proselytizing"
! rowspan=3 | Proselytizing [[File:Proselytizing.png|64px]]
| Occasional || Those who know the truth should try to bring it to others, when it seems appropriate. || [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Stats:''' Social chat [[conversion]] attempt frequency: '''×300''' '''Development points:''' {{+|1}} each pawn converted to the ideoligion.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|5}} for a successful [[relic]] hunt.{{Check Tag|Final Quest only?|Is this only given when the relic is actually acquired?}}{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|2}} for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}}
|-
| Sometimes || Those who know the truth should bring it to others at every opportunity. || [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Stats:''' Social chat [[conversion]] attempt frequency: '''×500''' '''Development points:''' {{+|1}} each pawn converted to the ideoligion.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|5}} for a successful [[relic]] hunt.{{Check Tag|Final Quest only?|Is this only given when the relic is actually acquired?}}{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|2}} for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}}
|-
| Frequent || Those who know the truth have a duty to always spread it and drive out other beliefs. || [[#Proselytizer|Proselytizer]] || '''Stats:''' Social chat [[conversion]] attempt frequency: '''×700''' '''Development points:''' {{+|1}} each pawn converted to the ideoligion.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|5}} for a successful [[relic]] hunt.{{Check Tag|Final Quest only?|Is this only given when the relic is actually acquired?}}{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}} {{+|2}} for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.{{Check Tag|Verify|Based on code, needs to be tested and confirmed in game}}

|- id="Ranching"
! Ranching [[File:Ranching.png|64px]]
| Central || We must raise and consume many large animals, and we must not eat plants. || [[#Rancher|Rancher]] || '''Stats:''' [[Plant Work Speed]]: {{Bad|x70%}} [[Tame Animal Chance]]: {{Good|x120%}} [[Animal Gather Yield]]: {{Good|x120%}} [[Butchery Efficiency]]: {{Good|x120%}} [[Skills#Animals|Animals]] Learning Factor: {{Good|x200%}}. Animal Products Price Improvement: {{+|10%}}.{{Check Tag|Mechanics?|How does this apply in the order of operations}} Affects [[meat]], [[leather]] and [[wool]] of all types, including [[Human]]. [[Eggs]], [[milk]], [[insect jelly]], and live [[animals]] are not affected. '''Mood:''' {{--|3}}/{{--|2}}/{{--|1}}/{{+|1}}/{{+|2}}/{{+|3}} [[mood]] based on total animal body size per colonist,{{Check Tag|What ratios?|What ratio is each cut off?}}{{Check Tag|Colonist only?|Wb slaves, prisoners, quest guests etc? What about colonists without this precept?}} if Low [[expectations]] or higher. Does not apply to quest lodgers. {{Thought|desc=I sowed a human food plant. It was wrong - humans should eat animals, and animals should eat nature-made plants.|label=sowed human food plant|value=-4|duration=2}} if Low [[expectations]] or higher.{{Check Tag|Which plants?}}{{Check Tag|Sow only?|Can you harvest plants without issue?}} Does not apply to quest lodgers. '''Development points:''' {{+|2}} for each successful [[Quests#Hospitality|Animal hospitality]] quest.{{RoyaltyIcon}}

|- id="Rough living"
! Rough living [[File:RoughLiving.png|64px]]
| Welcomed || We don't need to separate ourselves from the roughness of nature. || [[#Tree connection|Tree connection]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain Is Virtue]] || Nullifies:
* "Ate without table -3"
* "Slept outside -4"
* "Slept on ground -4"
* "Soaking wet -3"

|- id="Slab bed"
! Slab bed [[File:Precept Slab Bed.png|64px]]
| Preferred || The right way to sleep is on a slab bed. || [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || Makes colonists prefer slab beds, and gives a +2 thought when they sleep in slab beds.

|- id="Sleep accelerator"
! Sleep accelerator [[File:Precept sleep accelerator.png|64px]]
| Preferred || One should always use a sleep accelerator. Slow-sleeping is just foolishly wasting your potential. || [[#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] || +3 mood for 1 day when using [[sleep accelerator]]

|- id="Small spaces"
! Small spaces [[File:SmallSpaces.png|64px]]
| Don't care || There's nothing bothersome about being in tight quarters. || [[#Tunneler|Tunneler]] || Disables negative thoughts about small spaces. Positive thoughts about spacious areas are unaffected.

|- id="Temperature"
! Temperature [[File:Precept temperature.png|64px]]
| Tough || Extreme temperatures don't bother us as much. || [[#Tree connection|Tree connection]] [[#Pain is virtue|Pain is virtue]] || Nullifies:
* "Slept in the cold -4"
* "Slept in the heat -4"
Note: It doesn't appear to affect comfortable temperatures or the related [[hypothermia]]/[[heatstroke]] tolerances. It is only referenced for the above moodlets

|- id="Work drive"
! Work drive [[File:Precept work drive.png|64px]]
| Tripled ||The duration of the leader's work drive ability is tripled. || [[#Collectivist|Collectivist]] || 3x Work Drive Duration (from 3 days to 9 days)
|}

== Roles ==
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=== General info ===
'''Note:''' When creating an ideoligion a randomly generated or player specified name is given to the role. For clarity, the wiki uses the generic names of the roles instead as the generated names will not be consistent across playthroughs. Where there are explicit references to the role name, such as in moodlets, the fact that the non-generic name is used will be noted, such as with "<Role Name>".

Some factors are consistent across all roles.

* Pawns can only hold one role at a time.
* All roles lose [[#Certainty|Certainty]] at 50% the normal rate.
* Roles can have assigned equipment that they will demand when they have the role - Leaders and Moral Guides will get a permanent {{--|4}} "''Want <Role Name> apparel''" mood debuff without it. Due to a bug, none of the specialist roles will have the mood debuff happen. Only New Tribe colonies can select the [[war mask]] and [[tribal headdress]] as apparel options, while only New Arrivals colonies can select the [[slicecap]] and [[beret]] {{RoyaltyIcon}}.

Removing a role from a pawn causes a {{--|15}} "''Lost <Role Name> role''" moodlet for 10 days.{{Check Tag|Detail Needed|Does this happen when changing roles and if so, in all instances of role chances. Spec to Spec, Spec to leader, spec to Moral guide, etc.}} This does not happen when changing from a moral guide to leader.

When at least 3 colonists have the same ideoligion, its moral guide role activates. [[Slave]]s, [[prisoners]] and quest lodgers do not count toward this three pawn requirement. Activation allows the moral guide role to be assigned, but pawns with that ideology receive {{--|5}} "''No <Role Name>''" when the role is unfilled. This requirement persists, even if follower count diminishes, until there's only 1 pawn of that ideoligion left. There is a short grace period when starting the game before the [[mood]]let is applied.

The leader and moral guide roles are mandatory and cannot be removed, and are each limited to only one bearer of the role. You can have 1 leader across all your colonists, even of different ideoligions. You can have 1 moral guide per ideoligion in your colony, so long as the role is activated.

Between zero and two specialist types may be selected, but any number of pawns can be assigned that role. I.e. you cannot have a shooting specialist, an animals specialist, and a medical specialist, but you can have 20 pawns assigned be shooting specialists. Limits are per ideoligion only - multiple ideoligions in a single colony can allow more access to specialist types.

=== Leader ===
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[[File:Leader.png|left]]
A leader who holds the group together and represents your faction in diplomatic interactions.

Will always be restricted to any [[Ideoligion#Supreme gender|Supreme gender]] selected.
{{Clear}}
Leader abilities share a cooldown of {{Ticks|600000}} or 10 in-game [[Time|days]].

Leaders receive a flat +2% to [[Trade Price Improvement]] when they act as [[trade]]rs.

Leaders can select between these apparels as assigned equipment:
* [[Headwrap]]
* [[Broadwrap]]
* [[War mask]]
* [[Slicecap]]
* [[Visage mask]]
* [[Authority cap]]
* [[Cowboy hat]]
* [[Tribal headdress]]
* [[Beret]]

Leaders have [[expectations]] that are two levels higher than normal.

{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign:top}}
! Ability !! Ability Desc || Ability Effect
|- id="Leader speech"
! Leader Speech [[File:LeaderSpeech.png|64px]]
| A rousing speech intended to improve morale. Colonists will gather, and the leader will speak for a few hours. If all goes well, listeners will feel inspired, and gain respect for the leader. If it goes poorly, the speech will do social damage. || ?
|- id="Work drive ability"
! Work Drive [[File:WorkDrive.png|64px]]
| Call on a person to work harder for some time. || ''The sense of being called upon by a leader to work harder.''
* [[Global Work Speed]] +50%
|- id="Combat command"
! Combat Command [[File:CombatCommand.png|64px]]
| Create an aura that boosts the combat skills of everyone nearby. The effect lasts 24 hours and remains attached to the leader for the duration. || ''Combat abilities are boosted thanks to being near someone who is using the combat command ability.''
* [[Shooting Accuracy]] +3
* [[Melee Hit Chance]] +3
* AoE: 9.9 tile radius aura centered on Caster
* Duration:
** Aura: {{Ticks|60,000}} or 1 in-game [[Time|day]]
** Effect: While in aura radius
|- id="Trial"
! Trial [[File:Trial.png|64px]]
| A trial over some heinous accusation. The initiator will accuse someone of terrible wrongdoing and gather people for a trial. Spectators will listen as the accuser and accused argue back and forth, then decide if the accusation is true. If the accused is convicted, you can freely banish, arrest or execute them and nobody will mind. The chance of a conviction depends on the social abilities of the accused and accuser, and the number of spectators.|| If successful, you are allowed to execute, banish, or arrest a person without social consequences.
|}

=== Moral guide ===
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[[File:MoralGuide.png|left]]
A moral/spiritual leader who heads rituals and personally counsels believers. Moral guides get a 2x multiplier to the efficacy of their [[#Conversion|Conversion]] attempts.

Unlike Leaders, Moral Guides are '''not''' restricted to any Supreme gender selected.
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Moral Guide abilities share a cooldown of {{Ticks|180000}} or 3 in-game [[Time|days]].

Moral Guides can select between these apparels as assigned equipment:
* [[Cape]]
* [[Veil]]
* [[Hood]]
* [[Headwrap]]
* [[Broadwrap]]
* [[Burka]]
* [[Tribal headdress]], only for tribal factions
* [[War mask]], only for tribal factions
* [[Slicecap]], requires Transhumanist meme
* [[Visage mask]]

Moral guides have [[expectations]] that are two levels higher than normal.

{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign

{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign:top}}
! Ability !! Ability Desc || Ability Effect
|- id="Convert"
! Convert [[File:Convert.png|64px]]
| Attempt to convert someone to the speaker's ideoligion. This will reduce the target's certainty in their own beliefs. The certainty reduction depends on the speaker's negotiation ability. || ?
|- id="Counsel"
! Counsel [[File:Counsel.png|64px]]
| Offer counsel to a person to cancel the effects of a sad memory. The chance of success depends on the speaker's social skills and their relationship with the listener. || ?
|- id="Reassure"
! Reassure [[File:Reassure.png|64px]]
| Increase someone's certainty in their own beliefs. The regained certainty is based on the speaker's negotiation ability. || ?
|- id="Conversion ritual"
! Conversion Ritual [[File:ConversionRitual.png|64px]]
| Try to persuade someone into joining your ideoligion. If it goes well, target's ideoligion certainty will be reduced or they will convert. If it goes badly, they will gain certainty in their old beliefs. || ?
|- id="Preach health"
! Preach Health [[File:PreachHealth.png|64px]]
| Preach moral strength to a sick or wounded person through the concepts of your ideology. This will improve their rate of wound healing and immunity gain. || ''This person's will to survive was reinforced by a talk with a moral guide of their ideoligion. That moral certainty has improved their healing and immunization gain rates.''
* [[Immunity Gain Speed]] {{+|25%}}
* [[Injury Healing Factor]] {{+|25%}}
* AoE: 1 target, touch range
* Cast time: 12s
* Duration: {{Ticks|60,000}} or 1 in-game [[Time|day]]
Can only be used on pawns with the same Ideoligion as the Moral Guide themselves.
|}

=== Specialists ===
{| {{STDT| sortable text-valign:top}}
! Name !! Description !! Required Memes !! Pawn requirements !! Bonuses !! Disabled Work Types !! Ability !! Ability Description !! Ability Effect
|- id="Shooting specialist"
! Shooting Specialist [[File: SpecialistShooting.png]]
| A special ideoligious status focusing on ranged combat to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased accuracy and the ability to boost the shooting abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to do many kinds of non-shooting-related work.
|
* [[Ideoligion#Raider|Raider]]
* [[Ideoligion#Supremacist|Supremacist]]
|
* [[Skills#Shooting|Shooting skill]] ≥ 6
* Capable of:
** Shooting
** Violent
|
* [[Shooting Accuracy]] +7
* [[Aiming Time]] -50%
|
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
* Constructing
! Marksman Command [[File:MarksmanCommand.png|64px]]
| Call out shots and boost the shooting skills of everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours. Cooldown of 3 days. || ''Someone is using the marksman command ability nearby, boosting this person's shooting abilities.''
* [[Shooting Accuracy]] +4
* [[Aiming Time]] -40%
* AoE: 9.9 tile radius aura centered on Caster
* Duration:
** Aura: {{Ticks|60,000}} or 1 in-game [[Time|day]]
** Effect: While in aura radius{{Ref label|SpecialistCommandEffectOnCaster|2}}
|- id="Animals specialist"
! Animals Specialist [[File: SpecialistAnimals.png]]
| A special ideoligious status focusing on animals to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased taming and training efficiency. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-animals-related tasks.
|
* [[Ideoligion#Animal personhood|Animal personhood]]
* [[Ideoligion#Rancher|Rancher]]
|
* [[Skills#Animals|Animals skill]] ≥ 6
* Capable of:
** Animals
|
* 2x [[Tame Animal Chance]]
* 2x [[Train Animal Chance]]
* 0.2x Animal revenge chance
|
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
* Constructing
! Animal Calm [[File:AnimalCalm.png|64px]]
| Use unique methods of connecting with animals to calm a maddened beast. ||
* Hold animal stunned while casting, calms hostile animals if successful.
* Casting time: 1.5s
* AoE: Single target? Touch range.
* Duration: Instantaneous
|- id="Medical specialist"
! Medical Specialist [[File: SpecialistMedical.png]]
| A special ideoligious status focusing on medicine to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives improved surgery and tending efficiency, and the ability to boost the medical abilities of nearby allies. Believers who receive care from one of this role will be happy about it. Holders of this role will refuse to do any kind of violence, and won't perform some non-medical tasks.
|
* [[Ideoligion#Flesh purity|Flesh purity]]
* [[Ideoligion#Blindsight|Blindsight]]
|
* [[Skills#Medical|Medical skill]] ≥ 6
* Capable of:
** Caring
|
* 1.5x [[Medical Tend Quality]]
* 1.5x [[Medical Operation Speed]]
* 1.5x [[Medical Surgery Success Chance]]
* Mood buff to pawns treated by this specialist
|
* Violent
! Immunity Drive [[File:ImmunityDrive.png|64px]]
| Offer moral support that energizes the body, boosting someone's immunity gain for one day. || ''"This person has received moral support of an ideoligious nature. Their mental certainty has energized their body and boosted their immune system."''
* 2x [[Immunity Gain Speed]]
|- id="Melee specialist"
! Melee Specialist [[File: SpecialistMelee.png]]
| A special ideoligious status focusing on melee combat to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased dodge and hit chance in melee combat and ability to the boost melee abilities for nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to do many kinds of non-melee-related work.
|
* [[Ideoligion#Raider|Raider]]
* [[Ideoligion#Supremacist|Supremacist]]
|
* [[Skills#Melee|Melee skill]] ≥ 6
* Capable of:
** Violent
|
* [[Melee Hit Chance]] {{+|7}}
* [[Melee Dodge Chance]] {{+|7}}
|
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
* Constructing
* Hunting
* Shooting
! Berserk Trance [[File:BerserkTrance.png|64px]]
| The caster fills himself with anger over ideological grievances. This strengthens the body past normal limits, but also means losing control and attacking every enemy nearby in an unstoppable rage. The berserk state will last for 3 hours. || ''"Driven by fierce moral certainty and stories of ideoligious grievance, this person has driven him or herself into a rage. Every muscle is at peak performance, but it's hard to shut down the anger."''
* [[Melee Hit Chance]] +8
* [[Melee Dodge Chance]] +8
* 0.1x [[Pain]]
* Puts user in Berserk Trance mental state (Unknown effects)
* Casting time: 1.5s
* AoE: Self
* Duration: {{Ticks|7500}} or until [[Downed]]
|- id="Mining specialist"
! Mining Specialist [[File: SpecialistMining.png]]
| A special ideoligious status focusing on mining to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased mining speed, and the ability to boost the mining speed of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to do some non-mining work.
|
* [[Ideoligion#Darkness|Darkness]]
* [[Ideoligion#Tunneler|Tunneler]]
|
* [[Skills#Mining|Mining skill]] ≥ 6
* Capable of:
** Mining
|
* [[Mining Speed]] +70%
|
* Animals
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Constructing
! Mining Command [[File:MiningCommand.png|64px]]
| Offer guidance on mining techniques, boosting the mining speed for everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours. || ''"This person's mining speed is boosted thanks to being near someone who is using the mining command ability."'''
* [[Mining Speed]] +40%
* AoE: 9.9 tile radius aura centered on Caster
* Duration:
** Aura: {{Ticks|60,000}} or 1 in-game [[Time|day]]
** Effect: While in aura radius{{Ref label|SpecialistCommandEffectOnCaster|2}}
|- id="Plants specialist"
! Plants Specialist [[File: SpecialistPlants.png]]
| A special ideoligious status focusing on planting to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased sowing and harvesting efficiency, and the ability to boost the farming speed of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-plants-related work.
|
* [[Ideoligion#High life|High life]]
* [[Ideoligion#Nature primacy|Nature primacy]]
* [[Ideoligion#Tree connection|Tree connection]]
|
* [[Skills#Plants|Plants skill]] ≥ 6
* Capable of:
** Plantwork
|
* [[Plant Work Speed]] +70%
* [[Plant Harvest Yield]] +30%
|
* Animals
* Crafting
* Cooking
* Constructing
* Mining
! Farming Command [[File:FarmingCommand.png|64px]]
| Offer guidance on farming techniques, boosting the farming abilities for everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours. || ''"This person's farming abilities are boosted thanks to being near someone who is using the farming command ability."'''
* [[Plant Work Speed]] +40%
* AoE: 9.9 tile radius aura centered on Caster
* Duration:
** Aura: {{Ticks|60,000}} or 1 in-game [[Time|day]]
** Effect: While in aura radius{{Ref label|SpecialistCommandEffectOnCaster|2}}
|- id="Production specialist"
! Production Specialist [[File: SpecialistProduction.png]]
| A special ideoligious status focusing on crafting and construction to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased crafting and construction efficiency, and the ability to boost the production abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to do some non-production work.
|
* [[Ideoligion#Human primacy|Human primacy]]
|
* [[Skills#Construction|Construction skill]] ≥ 6 OR [[Skills#Crafting|Crafting skill]] ≥ 6
* Capable of:
** Construction OR
** Crafting
|
* [[Construction Speed]] +50%
* [[General Labor Speed]] +50
* [[Quality]] +1 level{{Ref label|Quality|1}}
|
* Dumb labor
* Animals
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
! Production Command [[File:ProductionCommand.png|64px]]
| Offer guidance on construction techniques, boosting construction and crafting abilities for everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours. || ''"This person's construction and crafting speeds are boosted thanks to being near someone who is using the production command ability."''
* [[Construction Speed]] +40%
* [[General Labor Speed]] +20
* AoE: 9.9 tile radius aura centered on Caster
* Duration:
** Aura: {{Ticks|60,000}} or 1 in-game [[Time|day]]
** Effect: While in aura radius{{Ref label|SpecialistCommandEffectOnCaster|2}}
|- id="Research specialist"
! Research Specialist [[File: SpecialistResearch.png]]
| A special ideoligious status focusing on research to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased research and hacking speed, and the ability to boost research abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-research tasks.
|
* [[Ideoligion#Transhumanist|Transhumanist]]
|
* [[Skills#Intellectual|Intellectual skill]] ≥ 6
* Capable of:
** Intellectual
|
* [[Research Speed]] +70%
* [[Hacking Speed]] +70%
|
* Dumb labor
* Animals
* Cooking
* Plantwork
* Mining
! Research Command [[File:ResearchCommand.png|64px]]
| Provide suggestions and mental support, boosting the research speed of everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours. || ''"This person's research speed is boosted because they are near someone who is using the research command ability."''
* [[Research Speed]] +30%
* AoE: 9.9 tile radius aura centered on Caster
* Duration:
** Aura: {{Ticks|60,000}} or 1 in-game [[Time|day]]
** Effect: While in aura radius{{Ref label|SpecialistCommandEffectOnCaster|2}}
|}
:{{note|Quality|1}} This affects the quality of every item the pawn creates, including [[sculptures|Art]], despite the tooltip only listing Crafting and Construction.
:{{note|SpecialistCommandEffectOnCaster|2}} The caster won't benefit from their own ability, but will benefit from the same ability from a different caster. Doesn't stack.

== Rituals ==
{{Main|Rituals}}

{{Ritual table}}

== Relics ==
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{{Main|Relic}}
Relics are objects revered by your ideoligion. To obtain them you need to go through a series of quests. If you take control of them, they give various boni to your colony. When placed in a [[Reliquary]], pilgrims of your Ideoreligion will visit your colony to pay reverence to the relic.
Mood penalty for lost or destroyed

== Buildings ==
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Ideoligions can add special statue-like buildings that will be required when there are 3 or more pawns of the ideoligion in your faction and their expectations reach moderate or higher. These buildings must be placed in a room of at least 25 area, and must not contain beds or workstations. The larger building will also require 4 columns to be in the room. Both buildings may be placed in the same room. Placing the buildings in a room which doesn't meet the requirements will give a "[building name] disrespected" negative moodlet.

== Weapon preferences ==
Ideoligion can have one or several pairs of noble and despised weapons types. Weapon pairs can't be combined if they overlap.

Wielding a noble weapon grants +3 mood while wielding a despised one grants -5.

Killing any pawn{{Check Tag|Verify}} with a noble weapon grants +3 mood for 1 day{{Check Tag|Thought Template|Convert to thought template}} while using a despised one to attack anything - including objects - grants -5 for 2 days.{{Check Tag|Thought Template|Convert to thought template}}

{| class="wikitable"
! Pair !! First group !! Second group
|-
| Melee / Ranged || All melee weapons, including beer and wood || All ranged weapons, including grenades
|-
| Melee piercer / Melee blunt || [[Thrumbo horn]], [[Elephant tusk]], [[Breach axe]], [[Gladius]], [[Longsword]], [[Knife]], [[Ikwa]], [[Spear]], [[Persona monosword]], [[Monosword]], [[Plasmasword]], [[Persona plasmasword]] || [[Beer]], [[Wood]], [[Mace]], [[Club]], [[Persona zeushammer]], [[Axe]], [[Warhammer]], [[Zeushammer]], [[Eltex staff]]
|-
| Long shots / Short shots || [[Bolt-action rifle]], [[Sniper rifle]] || [[Machine pistol]], [[Pump shotgun]], [[Chain shotgun]], [[Heavy SMG]]
|-
| Ranged heavy / Ranged light || [[Incendiary launcher]], [[Smoke launcher]], [[EMP launcher]], [[Heavy SMG]], [[LMG]], [[Sniper rifle]], [[Minigun]], [[Triple rocket launcher]], [[Greatbow]], [[Charge lance]] || [[Revolver]], [[Autopistol]], [[Machine pistol]], [[Short bow]], [[Recurve bow]], [[Charge rifle]]
|-
| Neolithic / Ultratech || [[Wood]], [[Club]], [[Knife]], [[Ikwa]], [[Spear]], [[Short bow]], [[Pila]], [[Recurve bow]], [[Greatbow]] || [[Persona monosword]], [[Persona zeushammer]], [[Persona plasmasword]], [[Monosword]], [[Zeushammer]], [[Plasmasword]], [[Eltex staff]]
|}

== Apparel preferences ==
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Some kinds{{Check Tag|Detail needed|Needs a list of what kinds can and cannot be preferred}} of [[apparel]] can be set as preferred. The player can set any of these pieces to be desired for men, women, or both, and can choose between a relaxed and strong desire. Multiple kinds{{Check Tag|Cap?|What's the limit?}} of apparel can be chosen.

Pawns that are wearing all of their desired apparel will gain a small mood bonus of {{+|1}} for a relaxed desire, and {{+|2}} for a strong desire. There is no difference in the mood bonus for having multiple pieces of desired apparel in the ideology, the bonus is only for wearing all of their desired apparel. Unlike role-specific apparel, there is no mood penalty for not wearing desired apparel.

Pawns that have desired apparel may spawn wearing it. The criteria for this are not fully understood, but pawnkinds that do not spawn with apparel that occupies the coverage and layer of the item preferred by the ideoligion appear to always spawn with the item. If the pawnkind does have conflicting apparel that may, or is required to, spawn, then a portion of those pawnkinds will spawn with the apparel. This can lead to knock-on effects, such as some Empire [[Empire#Cataphract|Cataphracts]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} spawning with hats in place of their [[cataphract helmet|helmets]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} making them weaker in combat. Note that this also applies to colonist spawns, including at game start. In any case, it is unknown if this is limited by the apparel value limits imposed on some pawnkinds.

Ideoligions have an ideoligion color. Pawns gain a gain a {{+|1}} mood buff if more than 60% of a colonist's apparel is their favorite color or the color of their ideoligion. If their favorite color and their ideoligion's color are the same, they will gain both mood buffs for a total of {{+|2}}. For a full list of valid apparel color options, see the [[Dye]] page.

The color of the ideoligion can be set at generation, while a pawn's favorite color is determined when the pawn is generated.{{Check Tag|Children?|Confirm when children gain a favorite color}} Apparel can be dyed at the [[styling station]] for one [[dye]] per piece of apparel. Note that unlike with preferred apparel, outside of the [[Man in Black]] event, pawns will not necessarily spawn wearing color that matches their ideoligion or preferred colors.

== Xenotype preferences ==
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Believers consider this xenotype to hold a higher moral or spiritual status than others. They will be happy if their colony has only preferred xenotypes. However, having any preferred xenotypes means that all other xenotypes are considered disliked and believers will be unhappy living alongside them.

Up to three [[Xenotypes]] can be selected as preferred xenotypes, including baseliner and a custom xenotype. If at least one is selected then a positive mood will be generated if every colonist is a preferred type, but a negative scaling mood if even one colonist is not a preferred type.

Believers will not accept becoming a non-preferred xenotype via reimplant ability or [[xenogerm]]s. If [[Sanguophage]] is not a preferred type and at least one other preferred type is set, colonists will refuse Sanguophage xenogerm implantation and quests that award Sanguophage xenogerm will fail to give the reward.{{Check Tag|Fail?|Will not offer that as a reward? Will generate as a reward but not give it? Will not generate the quest? Will not generate the option that would be to receive the xenogerm? Will replace it with something else?}}

Opinion:
* Preferred xenotype: {{+|10}}
* Disliked xenotype: {{--|30}}

Mood:
* All preferred xenotype: {{+|2}}
* Some disliked xenotypes: {{--|2}}
* Many disliked xenotypes: {{--|3}}
* Tons of disliked xenotypes: {{--|4}}
* I am disliked xenotype<: {{--|6}}

== Venerated animals ==
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An ideoligion can have up to 18 venerated [[animal]]s.

Colonists will not hunt or attack venerated animals with ranged weapons (but will attack them in melee), unless the animal is in manhunter mood. They will not slaughter tame venerated animals.

Colonists will butcher venerated animals without any issue, but will refuse to eat their [[meat]] or any meal made with it (including meals stacked together), even when starving. They can be manually ordered to eat such food, but will get -8 mood for 5 days. If a colonist that venerates an animal is unconscious, other colonists (of any ideoligion) will not feed them such food, and '''cannot''' be manually ordered to do so. Colonists take no issue using [[leather]], [[wool]], [[milk]], or [[eggs]] of the venerated animal.

Colonists will get -5 mood for 5 days if a tame venerated animal dies for any reason. Releasing tame animals is fine.

Colonists will get a positive thought for the amount of tame venerated animals in the colony, depending on their total body size divided by the total number of colonists: +2 for 1 or more, +3 for 2 or more, +4 for 4 or more, and +5 for 6 or more. In case of multiple venerated animals, all their body sizes are added together, producing a single thought. All colonists are counted for this, but only those of an appropriate ideoligion will get the thought.

Venerated animals are twice as easy to tame.

== Hair and tattoos ==
An ideoligion has associated hairstyles, beards, and tattoos. Specific hairstyles and tattoos may be allowed for men, women, or either. Some of those may be more or less common.

Newly spawned pawns of an ideoligion will always have matching appearance.

If pawn's hairstyle, beard, or tattoo do not match what their ideoligion allows (usually as a result of a conversion), they will try to use [[styling station]] on their free time to automatically change their looks, and will have a -??{{Check Tag|Value?}} mood penalty until they do so. They can also be sent to adjust their appearance manually.

== Version history ==
* [[Ideology DLC]] Release - Added.
* [[Version/1.3.3067|1.3.3067]] - Fixed gender supremacy memes having opposite agreeing traits e.g. Female Supremacy inexplicably being agreed with by Misogynist traited pawns. Fix: Essential roles can be removed.
* [[Version/1.3.3069|1.3.3069]] -
** Adjust trees-related thoughts. Negatives for killing trees are reduced. Positives for seeing trees are amplified.
** Chance of resentment on failed conversion attempt reduced from 36% to 20%. Chance of fight reduced from 4% to 2%.
** If a pawn has sight under 50%, he should gain a psychic sensitivity bonus of up to 50%.
* [[Version/1.3.3069b|1.3.3069b]] - Added a feature that lets you save and load ideoligions within the ideoligion customization screen.
* [[Version/1.3.3074|1.3.3074]] - Desired apparel now uses the same faction restrictions as role apparel does. Tribal-Only: War mask, Tribal Headdress. Non-tribal only: Slicecap, Beret. Removed visage mask restriction to non-tribal only. Integrate art for rough living issue and set it to medium importance. Ensure Tunneler meme always has the MiningYield_High precept. Fix 5234: Pawns can build turrets when prohibited by precepts.
* [[Version/1.3.3076|1.3.3076]] - Tree connection pawns have a 25% boost to [[Pruning Speed]]. Added temperature tough issue and precept. Fix: High life meme ideos generate with a warning about conflicting apparel.
* [[Version/1.3.3080|1.3.3080]] - Fixed Immunity Drive. Was previously targeting wrong stat and inoperative. Add a new ideoligion setup interface which allows playing like classic RimWorld, using presets, or fully customizing. Change harmful aging thought minimum age from 20 to 25. Added temperature precept icon.
* [[Version/1.3.3101|1.3.3101]] - Fluid ideoligion system added. Reduce production specialist crafting speed buffs from +70% to +50%. Increase impact of 'lost role' thought from {{--|5}} to {{--|15}}. Pawns now recover from [[#Melee specialist|berserk trance]] on being downed. Fix: There are some duplicate ideoligion icons.
* [[Version/1.3.3117|1.3.3117]] -
** Fix: Sunlamp does not trigger blinding light for Darkness pawns.
** Improved viability of multi-ideo colonies. Pawns of pawns of any ideo can now spectate any ritual, even if it's not of their own ideo.
** Gaining, changing, or removing a role now requires a simple ritual.
** Added a precept related to Darkness meme that gives believers a positive thought during an eclipse.
* [[Version/1.3.3159|1.3.3159]] - Precept name length is now limited.
* [[Version/1.3.3200|1.3.3200]] - Pawns can now install pre-built furniture even if it is incompatible with their ideoligion.
* [[Version/1.3.3287|1.3.3287]] - A thin faint box is now drawn around ideoligion preset selectables, precept and meme boxes for aesthetic reasons. Reworked eclipse precept artwork. Remove the 'no recent animal slaughter' negative thought from the rancher meme, along with all associated code and content. This particular thought was too limiting for players and not worth having. Previously inflicted a {{--|3}} mood. Fix: Classic mode ideoligions don't start with some classic precepts. Fix: Ideoligion info available on ritual begin dialog in classic mode. Meme "Flesh Purity" no longer forces the anti-biosculpting precept.
* [[Version/1.3.3326|1.3.3326]] - Fix: Ability gizmos are still available for roles that have been removed via reformation.
* [[Version/1.3.3387|1.3.3387]] - Fix: Not all precepts are added to memes during fluid ideoligion development.
* [[Version/1.4.3523|1.4.3523]] - Fix: Berserker trance makes pawn guilty even though they cannot attack allies. Fix: High Life harvest yield for Drug Use: Essential precept doesn't work.
* [[Version/1.4.3542|1.4.3542]] - Fix: Certainty bar doesn't display for games where Ideology has been enabled after the game was started.
* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] - [[Biotech DLC]] cross integration. Added mechanoid labor, child labor, growth vats, and bloodfeeders precepts. Added bloodfeeding meme. Added preferred xenotypes.
* [[Version/1.4.3557|1.4.3557]] - Assign a fallback ideo{{Check Tag|Detail Needed}} to non-baby colonists during load that don't have an ideo set. Fix: "Child not in growth vat" thought appears for dead children.
* [[Version/1.4.3563|1.4.3563]] - Fix: Animals specialist role mentions boosting animal-related abilities of nearby allies, which is false. "''A special ideoligious status focusing on animals to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased taming and training efficiency, and the ability to boost the animals-related abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-animals-related tasks.''" -> ''"A special ideoligious status focusing on animals to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased taming and training efficiency. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-animals-related tasks."''
* [[Version/1.4.3613|1.4.3613]] - Fix: Randomize symbols doesn't update member noun in ideology's description. Fix: Pawn auto-uses age reversal after changing from Transhumanist to Non-Transhumanist ideoligion.

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Precept Eclipse OLD.png|Eclipse Precept icon prior to 1.3.3287
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[[Category:Game mechanics]]

Toxic wastepack

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| name = Toxic wastepack
| image = Wastepack_a.png
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| description = A compacted package of toxic waste that will slowly dissolve if not frozen. The surface is heat-sealed for safe transport. Wastepacks will pollute the surrounding terrain if they dissolve, deteriorate, or are otherwise destroyed. Toxic wastepacks are flammable. If burned or damaged, they will release tox gas.
| mass base = 6
| stack limit = 5
| hp = 100
| beauty = -40
| flammability = 1
| deterioration = 4
| marketvalue = 0
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'''Toxic wastepacks''' are waste products created by mech-related buildings or the cleanup of [[polluted]] tiles.

== Acquisition ==
[[Pollution pump]]s and pawns manually cleaning [[pollution]] on the ground will generate wastepacks, at a rate of 1 wastepack per 6 polluted tiles. Wastepacks may also be dropped into your colony as part of a [[Quests#Wastepack_Dumping|quest]].

===Mechanoid Recharging and Gestation===
Toxic wastepacks are produced when [[friendly mechanoids]] utilize [[mech recharger]]s or [[large mech recharger]]s, or whenever a [[mech gestator]] or [[large mech gestator]] finishes gestating one. The amount of wastepacks produced is proportional to the Bandwidth of the mech recharged or gestated.
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== Summary ==
Up to 5 toxic wastepacks can fit into 1 tile, and they do not fit on [[shelf|shelves]].

===Pollution===
When a wastepack is destroyed in any fashion, they will pollute 6 ground tiles of a colony, per wastepack. A full stack of 5 wastepacks pollutes 30 tiles. This pollution can spread through constructed [[wall]]s, but will not bypass natural stone walls.

When burned or damaged, wastepacks release [[tox gas]], in addition to the pollution.

When dumped from a [[caravan]] or sent via unmanned [[transport pod]], wastepacks will lower the [[goodwill]] of a nearby faction or the faction base that you polluted. The goodwill loss is proportional to the amount of waste dumped: −1 goodwill for just a few packs nearby, −60 or more for multiple pods filled with wastepacks dumped directly on a base. Factions (except tribes) may retaliate by dropping wastepacks back at you, and hostile factions may send an additional [[raid]].

Wastepacks dumped on the world map immediately pollute the world tile by 0.05%, requiring 2000 wastepacks to completely pollute a hex from 0% to 100%.

===Dissolving===
1 wastepack per stack will dissolve every 8 days, with the following factors:
* 0.5x if indoors.
* 2x if in [[Weather|rain]] and outdoors, even if [[roof]]ed.
* 0x if {{Temperature|0}} or lower. Any temperature above freezing point will not slow the dissolving of the wastepack.

The packs also deteriorate in the same way as all other items. As an example, 5 Toxic wastepacks left out in the rain will dissolve 1 wastepack after 4 days and deteriorate the rest over the course of the next day or so as they lose HP at a rate of 20 per day outside in the rain. This means that even if temperature is below freezing when left outside or unroofed, a wastepack will slowly lose HP and eventually be destroyed, releasing the pollution inside. Unlike most other items, deterioration leaves behind the pollution inside rather than deleting the item altogether.

== Analysis ==
===Storage===
A 7x7 room holds 245 wastepacks, and can be cooled by a single [[cooler]] in a double-walled room, and is effective up to an outside temperature of {{Temperature|41}}. 245 wastepacks are enough storage:
*To constantly run 8 [[bandwidth]] worth of [[mechanoid creation|mechanoids]] for 1 entire year, 4 bandwidth of mechs for 2 years...
*To store the waste of 2 [[toxifier generator]]s for ''6 years''. A [[pollution pump]], or a pawn cleaning the pollution by hand, is required to turn ground pollution into wastepacks.
Depending on [[biome|climate]] and freezer setup, you can get more storage with 1 cooler. And this is 1 cooler - worth {{Required Resources|Cooler}} and {{Q|Cooler|Power Consumption}} W of [[power]] (plus the material for [[wall]]s and [[door]]s). You can easily use multiple coolers to store your waste. This gives you enough time to get a form of waste disposal ready.

===Disposal===
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[[File:urxiy5rm3nw91.jpg|thumb|400px|right|credit to /u/BenightedAlizar on r/rimworld]]
Most means of destroying wastepacks have some sort of consequence:

*'''Letting it pollute.''' Pollution is localized - wastepacks that deteriorate or dissolve away from your base won't have an impact, at least for a while. [[Insectoid]]s may come as wastepacks are destroyed, and [[acidic smog]] can happen at high enough pollution levels.
*'''Dumping it offsite.''' Dumping near a [[faction base]] (up to 41 tiles?{{Check Tag|Safe distance?}}) will lower [[goodwill]] proportional to distance, wastepacks, and current goodwill. Wastepacks may also be dropped back at you, and if the faction is already hostile, you may start a [[raid]]. Dumping within 4 tiles of your colony will increase the chance for acidic smog.
**'''[[Caravan]]s''' take time and food to set up, and have a limited carrying capacity - especially without [[pack animal]]s or [[friendly mechanoids]].
**'''[[Transport pod]]s''' can dump wastepacks far away. You can choose which faction to anger, or possibly dump it away from anybody. 1 pod, which can store up to 25 wastepacks, and per launch costs {{Required Resources|Transport pod}}, and a variable amount of {{icon small|chemfuel}} [[chemfuel]] depending on how far you launch it.
**'''[[Shuttle]]s''' {{RoyaltyIcon}} store up to 166 wastepacks (1000kg) at a time, and simply transporting waste will not anger the [[Empire]] - dumping it has the usual penalties. This costs 1 permit slot, has a cooldown of 40 days, and requires a [[noble]] pawn of at least Knight/Dame rank. This permit can theoretically support up to 5 bandwidth without honor costs (although the realistic value is slightly smaller).
*'''[[Wastepack atomizer]]s''' have no direct consequences from their use. However, they require a precious [[nano structuring chip]] to create, a fair amount of [[power]], and aren't fast. One atomizer can support 4.8 [[bandwidth]] of mechanoids - a [[mechanitor]] is very likely to have more.
*'''[[Polux tree]]s''', which are another clean form of pollution removal. These trees only grow naturally if there is plenty of pollution already, though [[polux seed|seeds]] can be bought from traders. They clean only 20% as fast as a [[Wastepack atomizer]], and can only clean if there is no artificial buildings in the area, but will erase [[pollution]] directly from the ground. This is also a downside for dealing with future pollution, as these trees do not stop wastepack infestations.

[[File:Diabolus killing drop pods.png|thumb|336px|right|Diabolus destroying wastepacks pods]]
When a landed [[transport pod]] is destroyed, its contents are vanished, which allows you:

* '''Bomb landed transport pods''', which exploitatively deletes wastepacks carried in them, leaving only [[steel slag chunk]]s and no pollution. Each pod can load 25 wastepacks. However this method costs a lot of [[steel]]s and [[component]]s to operate.
** While pods drop scattered around the target position, they always drop in the chosen, enclosed room.
** The most reliable way to destroy landed transport pods is the [[hellsphere cannon]] of a [[Diabolus]], which can destroy 25 pods and 625 wastepacks in one hit.

A pawn can be ordered to carry any chosen item by forming caravans. Additionally, by exploitatively forming caravans, a pawn can carry in its inventory up to the total colony carrying capacity, allows rapidly disposing wastepacks. This enables the following methods:

*'''[[Death acidifier]]s''', which exploitatively deletes wastepacks carried on a pawn with the implant on death. This does not cause pollution.
*'''[[Subcore ripscanner]]s''', which exploitatively locks wastepacks carried on a pawn on death. The pawn's corpse can then be destroyed along with any wastepacks in its inventory. This does not cause pollution.
*'''Pollute the [[undercave]]'''{{AnomalyIcon}}, which also helps you deal with [[fleshbeast]]s since they are not immune to [[toxic buildup]]. Pollution of the undercave does not pollute your colony in any way, and they cease to exist once its associated [[pit gate]] collapsed.
** Note once the polluted tiles reach the Dreadmeld's room, it will slowly die of toxic buildup, triggering the cave to collapse as normal when it does.
*'''Pollute the [[labyrinth]]'''{{AnomalyIcon}}, but you must destroy all wastepacks there, or the [[warped obelisk]] will teleport them back to your colony when you leave there.
*'''Pollute the [[metal hell]]'''{{AnomalyIcon}}, wastepacks dropped there so not come back with your pawns.
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== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Wastepack_a.png
File:Wastepack_b.png
File:Wastepack_c.png
</gallery>

== Version history ==
* [[Biotech DLC]] Release - Added
* [[Version/1.4.3542|1.4.3542]] - Fix: Can destroy wastepacks on temp tiles to avoid relationship penalty loss.
* [[Version/1.4.3555|1.4.3555]] - Added more consequences for dumping near a [[faction base]].

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== Summary ==
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== Licensing ==
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