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{{quote|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.|[[Lore|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]]|large=1}}</onlyinclude>
 
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''For information about the [[Biotech DLC]], see [[Mechanoid creation]] and [[Mechanitor]]. For the [[faction]], see [[Mechanoid Hive]].''
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'''Mechanoids''' are deadly autonomously intelligent robots that form a [[faction]] called a '''Mechanoid Hive'''.
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'''Mechanoids''' are deadly autonomously intelligent robots.
 
  
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{{List|Mechanoids|query=[[Type::Mechanoid]]}}
 
== Summary ==
 
== Summary ==
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Mechanoids are machines. They do not eat, do not feel [[mood]] or [[pain]], and are immune to [[fire]], toxicity, and temperature extremes - despite having a Comfortable Temperature range. Enemy mechanoids have no needs at all. As machines, they are vulnerable to [[EMP]] attacks, though will "Adapt" for {{ticks|2200}} (regardless of source), making them immune to all further EMP strikes.
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All mechanoids are permanently hostile to the colony. They do not eat and are immune to [[toxic fallout]] and temperature extremes, despite having a Comfortable Temperature range. As machines, they are vulnerable to [[EMP]] attacks, though will "Adapt" for {{ticks|2200}} (regardless of source), making them immune to all further EMP strikes.
  
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===Mechanoid Hive===
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Mechanoids can be found sealed in ancient ruins in all biomes, which spawn inside mountains or outside on the landscape. They may also raid the player's base through [[events]] and can also be found in most [[Crashed Ship Part#Poison Ship|poison ships]] and [[Crashed Ship Part#Psychic Ship|psychic ships]]. They may sometimes appear dormant in Ancient Complex and guarding any relic with [[Ideology]]{{IdeologyIcon}} DLC.
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{{Main|Mechanoid Hive}}
 
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Hostile mechanoids are part of a '''Mechanoid Hive'''. They can be found sealed in ancient ruins in all biomes, which spawn inside mountains or outside on the landscape. They may also raid the player's base through [[events]] and can also be found in most [[Crashed Ship Part#Poison Ship|poison ships]] and [[Crashed Ship Part#Psychic Ship|psychic ships]]. They may sometimes appear dormant in Ancient Complex and guarding any relic with [[Ideology]]{{IdeologyIcon}} DLC.
 
  
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===Allied Mechanoids===
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===Biotech===
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{{Main|Mechanoid creation}}
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{{Biotech}}
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In the [[Biotech DLC]]{{BiotechIcon}}, many more mechanoid types are added, and mechanoids can be [[mechanoid creation#Acquisition|gestated]] by your colony. A [[mechanitor]] with enough [[bandwidth]] is required to keep them from going feral. The Biotech DLC must be active for you to create mechanoids.
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In the [[Biotech]]{{BiotechIcon}} DLC, more mechanoid types are added. Mechanoids, including all the vanilla mechanoids (barring [[Termite]]s) can be gestated in a [[Gestator]] and controlled by a [[Mechanitors_and_mechanoids|Mechanitor]] with enough bandwidth to prevent them defecting. These gestated variants require [[power]] and have to be recharged, which creates [[Pollution]].
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These gestated variants require [[power]] and have to be recharged, which creates [[Pollution]]. Friendly mechanoids can be repaired with power and no other cost. As long as they leave a [[corpse]], friendly mechanoids can be ressurected for a [[steel]] cost.
 
  
 
== Mechanoid Types ==
 
== Mechanoid Types ==
 
Mechanoid forces are specialized by their unit types, with each unit performing a single role. Basics summaries are available here, see the individual pages for further details and analysis.
 
Mechanoid forces are specialized by their unit types, with each unit performing a single role. Basics summaries are available here, see the individual pages for further details and analysis.
  
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===Core===
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===Scyther===
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*[[Scyther]] - Fast, melee combat mechanoid
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{{Main|Scyther}}
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*[[Pikeman]] - High range, low-medium damage combat mechanoid
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The melee boogeymen of Mechanoids. As they're fast and extremely dangerous up close, large numbers can and will surround and overwhelm single enemies. Melee blocking, use of chokepoints, and focus fire while they close are useful tactics. Mechanoid raids consisting entirely of large numbers of scythers are fairly common - this can be a boon to prepared colonies as significantly simplifies defensive needs, but devastating to the unprepared.
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*[[Lancer]] - Fast, medium ranged combat mechanoid with the high damage [[charge lance]]
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===Lancer===
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*[[Centipede]] - Crowd-control mechanoid with increidble bulk; 3 possible weapons
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{{Main|Lancer}}
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*[[Termite]] - Designed to destroy [[wall]]s; their thump cannon can do so in 1 hit
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Armed with [[charge lance]]s, they make up for modest DPS with the chance to insta-kill pawns by destroying body parts. This is fairly rare, but long term presents a significant risk. Thus exposure should be limited and lancers eliminated with extreme prejudice. As they fight best against pawns at medium to long range and cannot fire when engaged in melee, melee combat is very effective if the distance can be safely closed.
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===Pikeman===
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{{Main|Pikeman}}
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Acting as the sniper, they aren't terribly powerful. Their main role is to allow mechanoids to engage at range - use bends in chokepoints to force them into range, or simply advance and kill them.
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===Centipede===
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{{Main|Centipede}}
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Centipedes are tanks and crowd controllers. They are extraordinarily durable and their heavy charge blasters do respectable damage in massive bursts, while inferno cannon light fires and force ignited pawns out of cover.  Having your pawns spread apart and behind cover is a great strategy to dealing with their blaster. Mortar Fire and melee combat are decent options for actually damaging the centipede due to it's slow movement speed and large size. Alternatively, a [[psychic insanity lance]] against a charge blaster centipede turns a danger into a significant asset, likely to both get killed itself and take several other mechanoids down with it. Don't target inferno cannon wielders for this however, as they will not be able to damage their fire-immune brethren.
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===Termite===
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{{Main|Termite}}
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While not particularly dangerous on their own, their thump cannon can destroy most walls in a single shot, leaving your colonists open to damage from other mechanoids. Depending on the exact strategy employed against the raid as a whole, these might be the highest priority, or of negligible concern.
  
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===Biotech===
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==Biotech Mechanoids==
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{{Biotech|section=1}}
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{{Biotech}}
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'''Labor'''
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===Militor===
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*[[Lifter]] - Mechanoid designed for [[hauling]].
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{{Main|Militor}}
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*[[Constructoid]] - Mechanoid designed for construction.
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A small combat mechanoid armed with a low-power mini-shotgun. Roughly four feet tall, militors lack the power, range, and toughness of more senior combat mechs. However, it is cheap to gestate and maintain, and so is often used as a rear guard or swarm attacker.  In war, mech armies are known to send militors into urban ruins to hunt down survivors after breaking the human defenses. For this reason, they are considered by some to be the most cruel of all mechanoid patterns.
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*[[Fabricor]] - Mechanoid designed for crafting and tailoring.
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===Lifter===
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*[[Agrihand]] - Mechanoid designed for plant work.
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{{Main|Lifter}}
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*[[Cleansweeper]] - Mechanoid designed for cleaning.
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A small mechanoid designed for hauling. Lacking a ranged weapon, it can make only weak melee attacks.
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*[[Paramedic]] - Mechanoid designed for rescue and tending, with the ability to jump and a [[firefoam pack]].
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===Constructoid===
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*[[Tunneler]] - Mechanoid designed for fast mining; comes with a shield, smoke pack, and melee attack
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{{Main|Constructoid}}
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A small mechanoid designed to perform construction tasks. It is equipped with a small slug gun for light defense. It can also perform blunt melee attacks if necessary.
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===Fabricor===
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{{Main|Fabricor}}
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A small work mechanoid designed to craft all manner of manufactured objects. It is equipped with a small slug gun for light defense.
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===Agrihand===
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{{Main|Agrihand}}
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A small mechanoid designed to sow and harvest crops.  While it is better suited to labor than combat, it can fight with built-in cutting blades if necessary.
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===Cleansweeper===
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{{Main|Cleansweeper}}
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A light mechanoid designed for cleaning. Lacking a ranged weapon, it can make only weak melee attacks.
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===War Urchin===
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{{Main|War urchin}}
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A small, deployable combat mechanoid usually manufactured inside an ultra-heavy war queen mech. War urchins are expendable fighters designed to swarm-attack enemies. They are mounted with short-ranged spiner guns and have a non-rechargeable power source.
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===Paramedic===
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{{Main|Paramedic}}
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A small mechanoid designed for non-violent emergency situation management and medical care. The paramedic can rescue the wounded, fight fires, treat the sick, and even perform surgery when a more-qualified human is not available. Its built-in jump launcher allows it to jump into, and out of, emergency situations, and its built-in firefoam popper can quickly extinguish fires.
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===Legionary===
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{{Main|Legionary}}
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A combat support mechanoid with a wide range bullet shield and long-range needle gun. Designed to support other mechanoids from long range, the legionary is vulnerable to anyone who can get inside its shield.
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===Tesseron===
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{{Main|Tesseron}}
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A medium-range combat mechanoid. While it is fairly vulnerable to attacks, the tesseron's sweeping beam graser attack is so deadly that few opponents can get shots off against it.
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===Scorcher===
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{{Main|Scorcher}}
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A close-approach war mechanoid that specializes in incendiary attacks. Its flame burst attack has little reach, but once it closes on a group of defenders it can ignite and disrupt them with blasts of searing flame.
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===Apocriton===
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{{Main|Apocriton}}
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A mechanoid commander designed to coordinate and motivate other mechs during long extermination campaigns. Its most obvious power is its ability to resurrect recently-killed mechs by supercharging their self-repair processes. Less obviously, it is intelligent and psychically present, radiating hatred into the minds of anyone in a wide radius.  While all mechanoids have a dim psychically-present intelligence, only the apocriton and a few others truly feel hatred for their victims and understand the suffering they inflict.
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===Tunneler===
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{{Main|Tunneler}}
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A heavy mechanoid built for mining in treacherous locations. While intended for excavation, the tunneler's gigantic power claws and ultra-thick armor makes it a dangerous force in combat.
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===Centurion===
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{{Main|Centurion}}
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An ultraheavy mech with a built-in shield bubble generator. The centurion carries a point-defense bulb turret capable of firing while the mechanoid is moving.
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===War Queen===
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{{Main|War queen}}
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An ultra-heavy mech with a built-in mech gestator. Fed with appropriate resources, the war queen can form small war urchin combat mechs within its massive carapace and deploy them into combat.\n\nEven more than other mechanoids, the war queen resembles a giant, living insect. All war mechs can be terrifying, but humans tend to find the war queen disturbing on a deeper level.
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===Diabolus===
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{{Main|Diabolus}}
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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.
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== Lore ==
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{{See also|Lore}}
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Killer machines of unknown origin. Hidden in ancient structures, under mounds of dust, or at the bottom of the ocean, mechanoids can self-maintain for thousands of years. This group of mechs seems to be unified in purpose, but not well-coordinated in action. While local scholars believe they're autonomous weapons left over from an ancient war, tribal legends describe them as the demonic servants of a sleeping god. - Faction description.
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In the [[lore]], Mechanoids are autonomous intelligent robots built for a variety of purposes. The technologies required to build them vary based on the complexity of the resultant mechanoid, with [[Lore#Tech_levels|Spacer-level]]<includeonly><ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/></includeonly><noinclude><ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing">[[Lore#Cryptosleep Revival Briefing|Cryptosleep Revival Briefing]]</ref></noinclude> urbworlds<includeonly><ref name="Keuneke"/></includeonly><noinclude><ref name="Keuneke">Backstory of Markus 'Keuneke' Keuneke</ref></noinclude> being able to construct more simple mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use, while only glitterworlds are capable of constructing the more advanced, quasi-conscious versions.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Others still are constructed and utilized by [[Lore#Archotech|archotechs]]. <ref>Backstory of Ang 'Codex' Gao</ref><ref>[[Quest]] descriptions</ref>
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In-game however, only combat mechanoids from a single, somewhat mysterious source are ever seen. There are some indications that the Mechanoids seen in game may have been built by, or otherwise allied with, an ancient army, perhaps that of the [[Ancients]] faction.<ref>[[Orbital mech cluster targeter]] description</ref>. Whatever the case however, they have since lost any allegiances they may have had and are now hostile to every other faction.
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[[Crashed ship parts|Defoliator ship parts]] are usually associated with orbital-drop mechanoid armies.<ref>[[Crashed ship parts|Ship part (defoliator)]] description</ref>
  
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'''Combat'''
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[[Insectoid]] ecosystems were genetically engineered to fight Mechanoid invasions<ref name="Megascarab Description">[[Megascarab]] description</ref> and thus the two factions are always hostile to one another.
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*[[Militor]] - Combat mechanoid, armed with a low-power [[mini-shotgun]]. Cheap to gestate and maintain.
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*[[Scorcher]] - Combat mechanoid designed to burn enemies
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===References===
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*[[Tesseron]] - Combat mechanoid with sweeping beam graser attack.
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*[[Legionary]] - Combat mechanoid with bullet shield and needle gun.
 
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*[[Centurion]] - Built-in shield bubble generator, point-defense bulb turret capable of firing while the mechanoid is moving.
 
  
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'''Commanders:'''
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== Pawns ==
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*[[Diabolus]] - Ultra-powerful, but slow hellsphere cannon. Otherwise, they have a relatively small turret and a flame burst ability.
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{| {{STDT| c_01 text-center}}
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*[[War queen]] - Built-in mech gestaor, creating a mass of [[war urchin]]s.
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! Pawn Type !! Image !! Combat Power !! Armor (S/B/H) !! Gear Health (%) !! Avg. Gear Quality !! Weapon Budget !! Available Weapons !! Age Range !! Move Speed !! Additional Info
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*[[War urchin]] - Small mechanoids created by a war queen, they have a finite power supply and can't be recharged.
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|-
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! [[Scyther]]
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|[[{{Q|Scyther|Image}}|50px]]  || 150 || {{Q|Scyther|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Scyther|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Scyther|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 ||  -    ||  -  || '''Melee (Blades)''' || Any || {{Q|Scyther|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || - <!--Before adding anything to these sections, see its purpose on other faction pages. They are not for general analysis-->
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|-
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! [[Lancer]]
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|[[{{Q|Lancer|Image}}|50px]]    || 150 || {{Q|Lancer|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Lancer|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Lancer|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[Charge lance]]''' || Any || {{Q|Lancer|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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|-
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! [[Centipede]]
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|[[{{Q|Centipede|Image}}|50px]] || 400 || {{Q|Centipede|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Centipede|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Centipede|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[Heavy charge blaster]] / [[Inferno cannon]]''' || Any || {{Q|Centipede|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Pikeman]]
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|[[{{Q|Pikeman|Image}}|50px]]  || 110 || {{Q|Pikeman|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Pikeman|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Pikeman|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[Needle gun]]''' || Any || {{Q|Pikeman|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Termite]]
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|[[{{Q|Termite|Image}}|50px]]   || 110 || {{Q|Termite|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Termite|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Termite|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[Thump cannon]]''' || Any || {{Q|Termite|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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|-
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! [[Militor]]
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|[[{{Q|Militor|Image}}|50px]]  || 75 || {{Q|Militor|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Militor|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Militor|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[mini-shotgun]]''' || Any || {{Q|Militor|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Lifter]]
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|[[{{Q|Lifter|Image}}|50px]]  || 75 || {{Q|Lifter|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Lifter|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Lifter|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''Melee (headbutt)''' || Any || {{Q|Lifter|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Constructoid]]
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|[[{{Q|Constructoid|Image}}|50px]]  || 75 || {{Q|Constructoid|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Constructoid|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Constructoid|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[slugthrower]]''' || Any || {{Q|Constructoid|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Fabricor]]
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|[[{{Q|Fabricor|Image}}|50px]]  || 75 || {{Q|Fabricor|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Fabricor|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Fabricor|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[slugthrower]]''' || Any || {{Q|Fabricor|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Agrihand]]
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|[[{{Q|Agrihand|Image}}|50px]]  || 75 || {{Q|Agrihand|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Agrihand|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Agrihand|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''Melee (arm blade)''' || Any || {{Q|Agrihand|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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|-
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! [[Cleansweeper]]
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|[[{{Q|Cleansweeper|Image}}|50px]]  || 75 || {{Q|Cleansweeper|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Cleansweeper|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Cleansweeper|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''Melee (headbutt)''' || Any || {{Q|Cleansweeper|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[War urchin]]
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|[[{{Q|War urchin|Image}}|50px]]   || 75 || {{Q|War urchin|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|War urchin|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|War urchin|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[spiner]]''' || Any || {{Q|War urchin|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Paramedic]]
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|[[{{Q|Paramedic|Image}}|50px]]  || 75 || {{Q|Paramedic|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Paramedic|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Paramedic|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''Melee (headbutt)''' || Any || {{Q|Paramedic|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Legionary]]
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|[[{{Q|Legionary|Image}}|50px]]  || 150 || {{Q|Legionary|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Legionary|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Legionary|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[MechanoidGunLongRange]]''' || Any || {{Q|Legionary|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Tesseron]]
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|[[{{Q|Tesseron|Image}}|50px]]  || 150 || {{Q|Tesseron|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Tesseron|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Tesseron|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[beam graser]]''' || Any || {{Q|Tesseron|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Scorcher]]
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|[[{{Q|Scorcher|Image}}|50px]]  || 110 || {{Q|Scorcher|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Scorcher|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Scorcher|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[mini-flameblaster]]''' || Any || {{Q|Scorcher|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Apocriton]]
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|[[{{Q|Apocriton|Image}}|50px]]  || 600 || {{Q|Apocriton|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Apocriton|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Apocriton|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[toxic needle gun]]''' || Any || {{Q|Apocriton|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Tunneler]]
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|[[{{Q|Tunneler|Image}}|50px]]  || 400 || {{Q|Tunneler|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Tunneler|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Tunneler|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[power claw]]''' || Any || {{Q|Tunneler|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Centurion]]
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|[[{{Q|Centurion|Image}}|50px]]  || 250 || {{Q|Centurion|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Centurion|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Centurion|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[charge blaster turret]]''' || Any || {{Q|Centurion|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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|-
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! [[War queen]]
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|[[{{Q|War queen|Image}}|50px]]   || 600 || {{Q|War queen|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|War queen|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|War queen|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[charge blaster turret]]''' || Any || {{Q|War queen|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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! [[Diabolus]]
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|[[{{Q|Diabolus|Image}}|50px]]  || 600 || {{Q|Diabolus|Armor - Sharp}}% / {{Q|Diabolus|Armor - Blunt}}% / {{Q|Diabolus|Armor - Heat|0}}% || 100 || Normal || 9999 || '''[[hellsphere cannon]]''' || Any || {{Q|Diabolus|Move Speed Base}} {{CS}} || -
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== Version history ==
 
* [[Version/0.4.460|0.4.460]] - Mechanoid raids added.
 
* [[Version/0.4.460|0.4.460]] - Mechanoid raids added.
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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.

— RimWorld Universe Quick Primer

Mechanoids are deadly autonomously intelligent robots that form a faction called a Mechanoid Hive.

Agrihand east.png

A small mechanoid designed to sow and harvest crops. While it is better suited to labor than combat, it can fight with built-in cutting blades if necessary.

ApocritonAncient east.png

A mechanoid commander designed to coordinate and motivate other mechs during long extermination campaigns. Its most obvious power is its ability to resurrect recently-killed mechs by supercharging their self-repair processes. Less obviously, it is intelligent and psychically present, radiating hatred into the minds of anyone in a wide radius. It can also move quickly with its built-in jump launcher.
While all mechanoids have a dim psychically-present intelligence, only the apocriton and a few others truly feel hatred for their victims and understand the suffering they inflict.

Centipede east.png

Heavy combat mechanoids that glide on dozens of tiny legs. Their thick carapace and firepower makes them very effective against bunched-up static defenders. They are somewhat vulnerable to mobile hit-and-run tactics.

Centipede east.png

Heavy combat mechanoids that glide on dozens of tiny legs. Their thick carapace and firepower makes them very effective against bunched-up static defenders. They are somewhat vulnerable to mobile hit-and-run tactics.

CentipedeBurner east.png

Heavy combat mechanoids that glide on dozens of tiny legs. Their thick carapace and firepower makes them very effective against bunched-up static defenders. They are somewhat vulnerable to mobile hit-and-run tactics.

CentipedeGunner east.png

Heavy combat mechanoids that glide on dozens of tiny legs. Their thick carapace and firepower makes them very effective against bunched-up static defenders. They are somewhat vulnerable to mobile hit-and-run tactics.

Centurion east.png

An ultraheavy mech with a built-in shield bubble generator. The centurion carries a point-defense bulb turret capable of firing while the mechanoid is moving.

Cleansweeper east.png

A light mechanoid designed for cleaning. Lacking a ranged weapon, it can make only weak melee attacks.

Constructoid east.png

A small mechanoid designed to perform construction tasks. It can perform blunt melee attacks if necessary.

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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.

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A small work mechanoid designed to craft all manner of manufactured objects.

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Fast human-sized combat mechanoids built for medium and long-range combat. Their bodies are light, making them vulnerable targets at close range - especially in melee combat.

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A combat support mechanoid with a wide-range bullet shield and mid-range needle gun. Designed to support other mechanoids, the legionary is vulnerable to anyone who can get inside its shield.

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A small mechanoid designed for hauling. Lacking a ranged weapon, it can make only weak melee attacks.

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A small combat mechanoid armed with a low-powered mini-shotgun. Roughly four feet tall, militors lack the power, range, and toughness of more senior combat mechs. However, it is cheap to gestate and maintain, and so is often used as a rear guard or swarm attacker.
In war, mech armies are known to send militors into urban ruins to hunt down survivors after breaking the human defenses. For this reason, they are considered by some to be the most cruel of all mechanoid patterns.

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A small mechanoid designed for non-violent emergency situation management and medical care. The paramedic can rescue the wounded, fight fires, treat the sick, and even perform surgery when a more-qualified human is not available. Its built-in jump launcher allows it to jump into, and out of, emergency situations, and its built-in firefoam popper can quickly extinguish fires.

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A clunky multi-legged combat mechanoid specialized as a long-range weapons platform. While effective at distance, it is weak in close-range fights and in melee combat.
Veterans of mechanoid wars know that often, the safest place to be around a pikeman is touching it.

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A close-approach war mechanoid that specializes in incendiary attacks. Its flame burst attack has little reach, but once it closes on a group of defenders it can ignite and disrupt them with blasts of searing flame.

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Fast, spindly, human-sized combat mechanoids specializing in rapid approach and close-range combat. Their bodies are covered in points and blades, but they mostly use their two arm blades to lop off limbs or gut their victims alive.

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A medium-sized mechanoid. Termites specialize in burrowing, digging, and breaking through defensive structures. Defenders need to decide whether to try to eliminate the termite before it can dig through their defenses, or take it where it emerges.

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A medium-range combat mechanoid. While it is fairly vulnerable to attacks, the tesseron's sweeping beam graser attack is so deadly that few opponents can get shots off against it.

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A heavy mechanoid built for mining in treacherous locations. While intended for excavation, the tunneler's gigantic power claws and ultra-thick armor makes it a dangerous force in combat.

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An ultra-heavy mech with a built-in mech gestator. Fed with appropriate resources, the war queen can form small war urchin combat mechs within its massive carapace and deploy them into combat. Even more than other mechanoids, the war queen resembles a giant, living insect. All war mechs can be terrifying, but humans tend to find the war queen disturbing on a deeper level.

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A small, deployable combat mechanoid usually manufactured inside an ultra-heavy war queen mech. War urchins are expendable fighters designed to swarm-attack enemies. They are mounted with short-ranged spiner guns and have a non-rechargeable power source.

Summary

All mechanoids are permanently hostile to the colony. They do not eat and are immune to toxic fallout and temperature extremes, despite having a Comfortable Temperature range. As machines, they are vulnerable to EMP attacks, though will "Adapt" for 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs) (regardless of source), making them immune to all further EMP strikes.

Mechanoids can be found sealed in ancient ruins in all biomes, which spawn inside mountains or outside on the landscape. They may also raid the player's base through events and can also be found in most poison ships and psychic ships. They may sometimes appear dormant in Ancient Complex and guarding any relic with IdeologyContent added by the Ideology DLC DLC.

Biotech

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In the BiotechContent added by the Biotech DLC DLC, more mechanoid types are added. Mechanoids, including all the vanilla mechanoids (barring Termites) can be gestated in a Gestator and controlled by a Mechanitor with enough bandwidth to prevent them defecting. These gestated variants require power and have to be recharged, which creates Pollution.

Mechanoid Types

Mechanoid forces are specialized by their unit types, with each unit performing a single role. Basics summaries are available here, see the individual pages for further details and analysis.

Scyther

Main article: Scyther

The melee boogeymen of Mechanoids. As they're fast and extremely dangerous up close, large numbers can and will surround and overwhelm single enemies. Melee blocking, use of chokepoints, and focus fire while they close are useful tactics. Mechanoid raids consisting entirely of large numbers of scythers are fairly common - this can be a boon to prepared colonies as significantly simplifies defensive needs, but devastating to the unprepared.

Lancer

Main article: Lancer

Armed with charge lances, they make up for modest DPS with the chance to insta-kill pawns by destroying body parts. This is fairly rare, but long term presents a significant risk. Thus exposure should be limited and lancers eliminated with extreme prejudice. As they fight best against pawns at medium to long range and cannot fire when engaged in melee, melee combat is very effective if the distance can be safely closed.

Pikeman

Main article: Pikeman

Acting as the sniper, they aren't terribly powerful. Their main role is to allow mechanoids to engage at range - use bends in chokepoints to force them into range, or simply advance and kill them.

Centipede

Main article: Centipede

Centipedes are tanks and crowd controllers. They are extraordinarily durable and their heavy charge blasters do respectable damage in massive bursts, while inferno cannon light fires and force ignited pawns out of cover. Having your pawns spread apart and behind cover is a great strategy to dealing with their blaster. Mortar Fire and melee combat are decent options for actually damaging the centipede due to it's slow movement speed and large size. Alternatively, a psychic insanity lance against a charge blaster centipede turns a danger into a significant asset, likely to both get killed itself and take several other mechanoids down with it. Don't target inferno cannon wielders for this however, as they will not be able to damage their fire-immune brethren.

Termite

Main article: Termite

While not particularly dangerous on their own, their thump cannon can destroy most walls in a single shot, leaving your colonists open to damage from other mechanoids. Depending on the exact strategy employed against the raid as a whole, these might be the highest priority, or of negligible concern.

Biotech Mechanoids

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Militor

Main article: Militor

A small combat mechanoid armed with a low-power mini-shotgun. Roughly four feet tall, militors lack the power, range, and toughness of more senior combat mechs. However, it is cheap to gestate and maintain, and so is often used as a rear guard or swarm attacker. In war, mech armies are known to send militors into urban ruins to hunt down survivors after breaking the human defenses. For this reason, they are considered by some to be the most cruel of all mechanoid patterns.

Lifter

Main article: Lifter

A small mechanoid designed for hauling. Lacking a ranged weapon, it can make only weak melee attacks.

Constructoid

Main article: Constructoid

A small mechanoid designed to perform construction tasks. It is equipped with a small slug gun for light defense. It can also perform blunt melee attacks if necessary.

Fabricor

Main article: Fabricor

A small work mechanoid designed to craft all manner of manufactured objects. It is equipped with a small slug gun for light defense.

Agrihand

Main article: Agrihand

A small mechanoid designed to sow and harvest crops. While it is better suited to labor than combat, it can fight with built-in cutting blades if necessary.

Cleansweeper

Main article: Cleansweeper

A light mechanoid designed for cleaning. Lacking a ranged weapon, it can make only weak melee attacks.

War Urchin

Main article: War urchin

A small, deployable combat mechanoid usually manufactured inside an ultra-heavy war queen mech. War urchins are expendable fighters designed to swarm-attack enemies. They are mounted with short-ranged spiner guns and have a non-rechargeable power source.

Paramedic

Main article: Paramedic

A small mechanoid designed for non-violent emergency situation management and medical care. The paramedic can rescue the wounded, fight fires, treat the sick, and even perform surgery when a more-qualified human is not available. Its built-in jump launcher allows it to jump into, and out of, emergency situations, and its built-in firefoam popper can quickly extinguish fires.

Legionary

Main article: Legionary

A combat support mechanoid with a wide range bullet shield and long-range needle gun. Designed to support other mechanoids from long range, the legionary is vulnerable to anyone who can get inside its shield.

Tesseron

Main article: Tesseron

A medium-range combat mechanoid. While it is fairly vulnerable to attacks, the tesseron's sweeping beam graser attack is so deadly that few opponents can get shots off against it.

Scorcher

Main article: Scorcher

A close-approach war mechanoid that specializes in incendiary attacks. Its flame burst attack has little reach, but once it closes on a group of defenders it can ignite and disrupt them with blasts of searing flame.

Apocriton

Main article: Apocriton

A mechanoid commander designed to coordinate and motivate other mechs during long extermination campaigns. Its most obvious power is its ability to resurrect recently-killed mechs by supercharging their self-repair processes. Less obviously, it is intelligent and psychically present, radiating hatred into the minds of anyone in a wide radius. While all mechanoids have a dim psychically-present intelligence, only the apocriton and a few others truly feel hatred for their victims and understand the suffering they inflict.

Tunneler

Main article: Tunneler

A heavy mechanoid built for mining in treacherous locations. While intended for excavation, the tunneler's gigantic power claws and ultra-thick armor makes it a dangerous force in combat.

Centurion

Main article: Centurion

An ultraheavy mech with a built-in shield bubble generator. The centurion carries a point-defense bulb turret capable of firing while the mechanoid is moving.

War Queen

Main article: War queen

An ultra-heavy mech with a built-in mech gestator. Fed with appropriate resources, the war queen can form small war urchin combat mechs within its massive carapace and deploy them into combat.\n\nEven more than other mechanoids, the war queen resembles a giant, living insect. All war mechs can be terrifying, but humans tend to find the war queen disturbing on a deeper level.

Diabolus

Main article: Diabolus

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.

Lore

See also: Lore

Killer machines of unknown origin. Hidden in ancient structures, under mounds of dust, or at the bottom of the ocean, mechanoids can self-maintain for thousands of years. This group of mechs seems to be unified in purpose, but not well-coordinated in action. While local scholars believe they're autonomous weapons left over from an ancient war, tribal legends describe them as the demonic servants of a sleeping god. - Faction description.

In the lore, Mechanoids are autonomous intelligent robots built for a variety of purposes. The technologies required to build them vary based on the complexity of the resultant mechanoid, with Spacer-level[1] urbworlds[2] being able to construct more simple mechanoids for companionship, combat and labor use, while only glitterworlds are capable of constructing the more advanced, quasi-conscious versions.[1] Others still are constructed and utilized by archotechs. [3][4]

In-game however, only combat mechanoids from a single, somewhat mysterious source are ever seen. There are some indications that the Mechanoids seen in game may have been built by, or otherwise allied with, an ancient army, perhaps that of the Ancients faction.[5]. Whatever the case however, they have since lost any allegiances they may have had and are now hostile to every other faction.

Defoliator ship parts are usually associated with orbital-drop mechanoid armies.[6]

Insectoid ecosystems were genetically engineered to fight Mechanoid invasions[7] and thus the two factions are always hostile to one another.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cryptosleep Revival Briefing
  2. ↑ Backstory of Markus 'Keuneke' Keuneke
  3. ↑ Backstory of Ang 'Codex' Gao
  4. ↑ Quest descriptions
  5. ↑ Orbital mech cluster targeter description
  6. ↑ Ship part (defoliator) description
  7. ↑ Megascarab description

Pawns

Pawn Type Image Combat Power Armor (S/B/H) Gear Health (%) Avg. Gear Quality Weapon Budget Available Weapons Age Range Move Speed Additional Info
Scyther Scyther east.png 150 40% / 20% / 200% 100 - - Melee (Blades) Any 4.7 c/s -
Lancer MechanoidLancer.png 150 40% / 20% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 Charge lance Any 4.7 c/s -
Centipede Centipede east.png 400 72% / 22% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 Heavy charge blaster / Inferno cannon Any 1.9 c/s -
Pikeman MechanoidPikeman.png 110 40% / 20% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 Needle gun Any 2.5 c/s -
Termite Termite.png 110 56% / 22% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 Thump cannon Any 2.1 c/s -
Militor Militor east.png 75 20% / 10% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 mini-shotgun Any 3.8 c/s -
Lifter Lifter east.png 75 20% / 10% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 Melee (headbutt) Any 2.8 c/s -
Constructoid Constructoid east.png 75 20% / 10% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 slugthrower Any 3.4 c/s -
Fabricor Fabricor east.png 75 20% / 10% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 slugthrower Any 3.4 c/s -
Agrihand Agrihand east.png 75 20% / 10% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 Melee (arm blade) Any 3.4 c/s -
Cleansweeper Cleansweeper east.png 75 20% / 10% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 Melee (headbutt) Any 3.4 c/s -
War urchin War urchin east.png 75 20% / 10% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 spiner Any 4.2 c/s -
Paramedic Paramedic east.png 75 20% / 10% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 Melee (headbutt) Any 3.8 c/s -
Legionary Legionary east.png 150 40% / 20% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 MechanoidGunLongRange Any 4.3 c/s -
Tesseron Tesseron east.png 150 40% / 20% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 beam graser Any 4.7 c/s -
Scorcher Scorcher east.png 110 40% / 20% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 mini-flameblaster Any 4.5 c/s -
Apocriton ApocritonAncient east.png 600 75% / 40% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 toxic needle gun Any 3.2 c/s -
Tunneler Tunneler Mechanoid east.png 400 80% / 40% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 power claw Any 1.9 c/s -
Centurion Centurion east.png 250 75% / 25% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 charge blaster turret Any 1.6 c/s -
War queen Warqueen east.png 600 75% / 25% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 charge blaster turret Any 1.6 c/s -
Diabolus Diabolus east.png 600 75% / 25% / 200% 100 Normal 9999 hellsphere cannon Any 2.4 c/s -

Trivia

  • Although all mechanoid-only weapons are 'Spacer' in terms of tech level; the hidden mechanoid faction itself is actually 'Ultra' tech level - one above 'Spacer', and the second highest tech level in the game, below 'Transcendent'.

Version history

Mechanoids
Mechanoids | Core
Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite
Combat
Centurion Content added by the Biotech DLC • Legionary Content added by the Biotech DLC • Militor Content added by the Biotech DLC • Scorcher Content added by the Biotech DLC • Tesseron Content added by the Biotech DLC
Command
Apocriton Content added by the Biotech DLC • Diabolus Content added by the Biotech DLC • War queen Content added by the Biotech DLC (War urchin Content added by the Biotech DLC)
Labor
Agrihand Content added by the Biotech DLC • Cleansweeper Content added by the Biotech DLC • Constructoid Content added by the Biotech DLC • Fabricor Content added by the Biotech DLC • Lifter Content added by the Biotech DLC • Paramedic Content added by the Biotech DLC • Tunneler Content added by the Biotech DLC
Cluster Content added by the Royalty DLC | Buildings
Condition causer Content added by the Royalty DLC • Count-down activator Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mech assembler Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mech capsule Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mech drop beacon Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mech high-shield Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mech low-shield Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mech node Content added by the Royalty DLC • Proximity activator Content added by the Royalty DLC • Unstable power cell Content added by the Royalty DLC
Turrets
Auto charge turret Content added by the Royalty DLC • Auto inferno turret Content added by the Royalty DLC • Auto mortar Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mini-slugger turret Content added by the Royalty DLC
Creation Content added by the Biotech DLC | Pawn
Mechanitor Content added by the Biotech DLC
Buildings
Mech gestator Content added by the Biotech DLC • Large mech gestator Content added by the Biotech DLC • Mechband antenna Content added by the Biotech DLC • Mechband dish Content added by the Biotech DLC

Factions
Human | Ancients
Neutral ancients • Hostile ancients
Tribes
Gentle tribe • Fierce tribe • Savage tribe • Cannibal tribe Content added by the Ideology DLC • Nudist tribe Content added by the Ideology DLC • Fierce neanderthal tribe Content added by the Biotech DLC • Savage impid tribe Content added by the Biotech DLC
Outlanders
Civil outlander union • Rough outlander union • Rough pig union Content added by the Biotech DLC
Pirates
Pirate gang • Cannibal pirate gang Content added by the Ideology DLC • Yttakin pirates Content added by the Biotech DLC • Waster pirates Content added by the Biotech DLC
Temporary
Outlander refugee group Content added by the Royalty DLC • Beggars Content added by the Ideology DLC • Pilgrims Content added by the Ideology DLC • Sanguophages Content added by the Biotech DLC
Player
New Arrivals • New Tribe • Research Expedition Content added by the Anomaly DLC
Other
Shattered empire Content added by the Royalty DLC • Horax cult Content added by the Anomaly DLC
Non-human
Insect geneline • Mechanoid hive • Entities Content added by the Anomaly DLC
Related
Faction base • Raider

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