Mechanoid hive

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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.

Summary

All mechanoids from a mech hive 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. Hostile mechanoids do not fear for their life, unable to feel pain and will not seek to take cover.

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, psychic ships, and mech clusters. They may sometimes appear dormant in Ancient Complex and guarding any relic with Ideology DLC.

Hostile mechanoids are not bound by power limits. While mechanitors from the Biotech DLC can create their own allied mechanoids, they are unable to tame or convert hostile ones. Friendly mechs may become feral if left Uncontrolled (such as having too little bandwidth) for too long, and can't be re-converted.

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.

Core

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

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.

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.

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.

Mechanoid Commanders

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.

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.

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.

Diabolus

Main article: Diabolus

An ultra-heavy mechanoid with an ultra-powerful hellsphere cannon. It takes time to charge up, but devastates surrounding buildings and walls in a large radius. Also has a flame burst for close combat, and a general purpose turret.

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 urbworlds 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. Others still are constructed and utilized by archotechs.

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.. 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.

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

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		150	40% / 20% / 200%	100	-	-	Melee (Blades)	Any	4.7 c/s	-
Lancer		150	40% / 20% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	Charge lance	Any	4.7 c/s	-
Centipede		400	72% / 22% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	Heavy charge blaster / Inferno cannon	Any	1.9 c/s	-
Pikeman		110	40% / 20% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	Needle gun	Any	2.5 c/s	-
Termite		110	56% / 22% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	Thump cannon	Any	2.1 c/s	-
Militor		75	20% / 10% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	mini-shotgun	Any	3.8 c/s	-
War urchin		75	20% / 10% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	spiner	Any	4.2 c/s	-
Legionary		150	40% / 20% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	MechanoidGunLongRange	Any	4.3 c/s	-
Tesseron		150	40% / 20% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	beam graser	Any	4.7 c/s	-
Scorcher		110	40% / 20% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	mini-flameblaster	Any	4.5 c/s	-
Apocriton		600	75% / 40% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	toxic needle gun	Any	3.2 c/s	-
Tunneler		400	80% / 40% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	power claw	Any	1.9 c/s	-
Centurion		250	75% / 25% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	charge blaster turret	Any	1.6 c/s	-
War queen		600	75% / 25% / 200%	100	Normal	9999	charge blaster turret	Any	1.6 c/s	-
Diabolus		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

• 0.4.460 - Mechanoid raids added.
• Biotech DLC - Added many new mechanoids.

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Mechanoids

Mechanoids | Core

Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite

Combat

Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron

Command

Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )

Labor

Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler

Cluster | Buildings

Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell

Turrets

Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret

Creation | Pawn

Mechanitor

Buildings

Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish

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Factions

Human | Ancients

Neutral ancients • Hostile ancients

Tribes

Gentle tribe • Fierce tribe • Savage tribe • Cannibal tribe • Nudist tribe • Fierce neanderthal tribe • Savage impid tribe

Outlanders

Civil outlander union • Rough outlander union • Rough pig union

Pirates

Pirate gang • Cannibal pirate gang • Yttakin pirates • Waster pirates

Temporary

Outlander refugee group • Beggars • Pilgrims • Sanguophages

Player

New Arrivals • New Tribe • Research Expedition

Other

Shattered empire • Horax cult

Non-human

Insect geneline • Mechanoid hive • Entities

Related

Faction base • Raider