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| − | + | '''To get the update:''' If you’re on Steam, the game will update automatically. If you’re DRM-free, you can re-download from the same link you got the game from originally. It always has the latest version. | |
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| − | New swamp biomes | + | '''If you want to keep playing Alpha 17 on Steam:''' Right click RimWorld in the Library list -> Properties -> Betas -> Choose alpha17b from the drop-down menu. |
| − | *Tropical swamp | + | |
| − | *Temperate swamp | + | It’s finally in Beta! This is build 0.18.1722 of RimWorld. That last number is the number of days since I first started working on RimWorld in February 2012. 1722 days – almost five years. It’s come a very long way since the first public look in September 2013. It’s time to start bringing it to a close, which is why version 0.18 is Beta 18 instead of Alpha 18. |
| − | *Cold bog | + | |
| − | New incidents | + | The “Beta” designation means that we’re on the final stretch before the 1.0 release, and that there won’t be major content additions like whole new game systems. Of course we will almost certainly add more content, before the 1.0 release or after. We will also continue seeking feedback so we can fix those little bugs and design problems that only become apparent after tens or hundreds of hours of play. RimWorld has become an exceptionally complex game, and it takes a long time and a huge amount of play to understand how to improve it. So it’ll keep evolving for a while. |
| − | *Meteorite impact. A meteorite impacts, leaving a lump of mineable ore. | + | |
| − | *Aurora. A beautiful aurora lights up the night sky, improving mood. | + | In any case, enjoy Beta 18. There is a lot of new stuff. See the features list below for details, and watch the video. |
| − | *Tornado | + | |
| − | *Peace talks quest | + | ===Compatibility== |
| − | *World refugee quest | + | Saved games from non-modded Alpha 17 should still be loadable, though some things may change upon loading (e.g. characters may forget what they are doing; buildings may insta-deconstruct if they changed size and no longer fit, etc). Complex mods made for A17 won’t be usable and will need to be updated. Very simple mods may still load. |
| − | *Prisoner rescue quest | + | |
| − | Storyful combat | + | ==Changes== |
| − | + | ||
| − | *Gun research is now broken into several stages, so making advanced guns like assault rifles takes more research than making simple revolvers | + | ===New swamp biomes=== |
| − | *Melee weapon research is now broken into several stages | + | Swamp biomes are hard to move through due to choking vegetation, and hard to build in due to swampy terrain. Many new plants were added to fill out these and other biomes. |
| − | New furniture | + | * Tropical swamp |
| − | *Bedroll: Portable bed | + | * Temperate swamp |
| − | *Dresser: Passively improves room | + | * Cold bog |
| − | *Endtable: Passive improves room | + | |
| − | *Various new table sizes | + | ===New incidents=== |
| − | New quest reward special items | + | * Meteorite impact. A meteorite impacts, leaving a lump of mineable ore. |
| − | *Psychic emanator | + | * Aurora. A beautiful aurora lights up the night sky, improving mood. |
| − | *Vanometric power cell | + | * Tornado |
| − | *Infinite chemreactor | + | * Peace talks quest |
| − | *Techprof subpersona core | + | * World refugee quest |
| − | *Healer mechanite superdose | + | * Prisoner rescue quest |
| − | *Resurrector mechanite superdose | + | |
| − | *Orbital bombardment targeter | + | ===Storyful combat=== |
| − | *Orbital power beam targeter | + | A major rework of melee combat, and a new way to report all combat interactions. Storyful combat generates a combat log that reports each blow, miss, swipe, block and fall in the combat. During or after a fight, you can review the combat log to see what happened, to generate a richer story. |
| − | Tribal content upgrade | + | |
| − | *Ikwa melee weapon | + | ===Various research has been split up=== |
| − | *War mask | + | * Gun research is now broken into several stages, so making advanced guns like assault rifles takes more research than making simple revolvers |
| − | *Tribal headdress | + | * Melee weapon research is now broken into several stages |
| − | *Recurve bow | + | |
| − | *Tribal hunter | + | ===New furniture=== |
| − | *Tribal heavy archer | + | * Bedroll: Portable bed |
| − | *Tribal berserker | + | * Dresser: Passively improves room |
| − | New world site components | + | * Endtable: Passive improves room |
| − | *Sleeping mechanoids | + | * Various new table sizes |
| − | *Animal ambush | + | |
| − | *Enemy ambush | + | ===New quest reward special items=== |
| − | New mental breaks | + | * Psychic emanator |
| − | *Insulting spree. Randomly go around and insult people. | + | * Vanometric power cell |
| − | *Targeted insulting spree. Follow around a specific other colonist, insulting them repeatedly. | + | * Infinite chemreactor |
| − | *Tantrum. Go around randomly smashing furniture, buildings, and damageable items. | + | * Techprof subpersona core |
| − | *Bedroom tantrum. Go to your own room and randomly smash furniture, buildings, and damageable items. | + | * Healer mechanite superdose |
| − | *Targeted tantrum. Go to destroy a single, specific, randomly-chosen, valuable item or building. | + | * Resurrector mechanite superdose |
| − | *Sadistic rage. Melee attack prisoners for a while. Fists only. Only occurs when there are prisoners to attack. Does not attack downed prisoners. | + | * Orbital bombardment targeter |
| − | *Corpse obsession. Dig up a corpse and drop it on a meeting spot table or in a random high-traffic area. The mental break then ends. | + | * Orbital power beam targeter |
| − | *Catatonic. Collapse on the spot into a downed state with a psychological breakdown. Recover some days later. This can be implemented by a “catatonic breakdown” hediff. | + | |
| − | *Jailbreaker. Colonist goes to a random prisoner (who is capable of prison breaking), and upon doing a special “spark jailbreak” action with them, induces an immediate prison break in that prisoner. | + | ===Tribal content upgrade=== |
| − | *Slaughterer. Slaughter random colony animal(s) periodically. | + | * Ikwa melee weapon |
| − | *Murderous rage. Hunt down a specific colonist or prisoner (randomly chosen) and attempt to kill them by melee attack. Uses melee weapon or fists, as equipped. Keep attacking until the target is dead. | + | * War mask |
| − | *Run wild. The pawn basically starts acting like an animal. You can tame him to try to get him to rejoin. | + | * Tribal headdress |
| − | New mental inspirations | + | * Recurve bow |
| − | *Work frenzy (1 day): Global work speed 2.5x | + | * Tribal hunter |
| − | *Go frenzy (1 day): Walk speed 1.5x | + | * Tribal heavy archer |
| − | *Shoot frenzy (3 days): Shooting hit chance improved as though the pawn is 10 skill levels higher. | + | * Tribal berserker |
| − | *Inspired trade | + | |
| − | *Inspired recruitment | + | ===New world site components=== |
| − | *Inspired surgery | + | Used in various situations. |
| − | *Inspired art | + | * Sleeping mechanoids |
| − | World features like lakes, mountain ranges, and bays are now detected and named. Names are displayed in the world view. | + | * Animal ambush |
| − | *Caves now form sometimes in mountainous maps. Inside there are special cave plants. There can also be dormant insect hives. | + | * Enemy ambush |
| − | *Many new tale types were added. So, the game will record many new types of events, and colonists can make art about them. Art descriptions should be much more diverse. | + | |
| − | *Crop blights now appear and spread over time instead of instantly destroying crops | + | ===New mental breaks=== |
| − | *Spaceship is now bigger and has one more component, the sensor cluster | + | * Insulting spree. Randomly go around and insult people. |
| − | *Spaceship quest ending phase: When going to the hidden space ship to finish the game, the game does not end instantly on arrival. The map generates with the ship intact. To take off, first you must power up the ship, which takes some days, during which you must survive raids. | + | * Targeted insulting spree. Follow around a specific other colonist, insulting them repeatedly. |
| − | *Space ship construction now requires advanced components, which have their own tech tree and production method | + | * Tantrum. Go around randomly smashing furniture, buildings, and damageable items. |
| − | *Split pistol into revolver and autopistol | + | * Bedroom tantrum. Go to your own room and randomly smash furniture, buildings, and damageable items. |
| − | *Boomalopes can be milked for chemfuel | + | * Targeted tantrum. Go to destroy a single, specific, randomly-chosen, valuable item or building. |
| − | *Added chemfuel generator, which generates electricity from chemfuel | + | * Sadistic rage. Melee attack prisoners for a while. Fists only. Only occurs when there are prisoners to attack. Does not attack downed prisoners. |
| − | *Artillery works differently now. There is one type of mortar, which can fire any type of shell, with each shell creating a different effect. The shells are explosive, incendiary, firefoam, and antigrain (a special high-tech warhead). | + | * Corpse obsession. Dig up a corpse and drop it on a meeting spot table or in a random high-traffic area. The mental break then ends. |
| − | *Seasonal latitudes: Seasons now more reasonably adjust depending on latitude. Instead of flipping at the equator, there is a seasonless crossover zone. | + | * Catatonic. Collapse on the spot into a downed state with a psychological breakdown. Recover some days later. This can be implemented by a “catatonic breakdown” hediff. |
| − | *Redesigned alert letter types and sounds to be more specific. | + | * Jailbreaker. Colonist goes to a random prisoner (who is capable of prison breaking), and upon doing a special “spark jailbreak” action with them, induces an immediate prison break in that prisoner. |
| − | *Pawns can now be banished. This is analogous to abandoning pawns in caravans. | + | * Slaughterer. Slaughter random colony animal(s) periodically. |
| − | *Technical: The save file now contains the actual contents of the planet map, instead of just the seed to generate it. This speed up loading, makes forward compatibility possible, and makes it technically possible to modify the world map during play. | + | * Murderous rage. Hunt down a specific colonist or prisoner (randomly chosen) and attempt to kill them by melee attack. Uses melee weapon or fists, as equipped. Keep attacking until the target is dead. |
| − | *Many many tunings, bugfixes, and redesigns. | + | * Run wild. The pawn basically starts acting like an animal. You can tame him to try to get him to rejoin. |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ===New mental inspirations=== | |
| − | + | Basically reverse mental breaks – these give temporary bonuses to colonists in high moods. | |
| + | * Work frenzy (1 day): Global work speed 2.5x | ||
| + | * Go frenzy (1 day): Walk speed 1.5x | ||
| + | * Shoot frenzy (3 days): Shooting hit chance improved as though the pawn is 10 skill levels higher. | ||
| + | * Inspired trade | ||
| + | * Inspired recruitment | ||
| + | * Inspired surgery | ||
| + | * Inspired art | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===Misc. Changes=== | ||
| + | * World features like lakes, mountain ranges, and bays are now detected and named. Names are displayed in the world view. | ||
| + | * Caves now form sometimes in mountainous maps. Inside there are special cave plants. There can also be dormant insect hives. | ||
| + | * Many new tale types were added. So, the game will record many new types of events, and colonists can make art about them. Art descriptions should be much more diverse. | ||
| + | * Crop blights now appear and spread over time instead of instantly destroying crops | ||
| + | * Spaceship is now bigger and has one more component, the sensor cluster | ||
| + | * Spaceship quest ending phase: When going to the hidden space ship to finish the game, the game does not end instantly on arrival. The map generates with the ship intact. To take off, first you must power up the ship, which takes some days, during which you must survive raids. | ||
| + | * Space ship construction now requires advanced components, which have their own tech tree and production method | ||
| + | * Split pistol into revolver and autopistol | ||
| + | * Boomalopes can be milked for chemfuel | ||
| + | * Added chemfuel generator, which generates electricity from chemfuel | ||
| + | * Artillery works differently now. There is one type of mortar, which can fire any type of shell, with each shell creating a different effect. The shells are explosive, incendiary, firefoam, and antigrain (a special high-tech warhead). | ||
| + | * Seasonal latitudes: Seasons now more reasonably adjust depending on latitude. Instead of flipping at the equator, there is a seasonless crossover zone. | ||
| + | * Redesigned alert letter types and sounds to be more specific. | ||
| + | * Pawns can now be banished. This is analogous to abandoning pawns in caravans. | ||
| + | * Technical: The save file now contains the actual contents of the planet map, instead of just the seed to generate it. This speed up loading, makes forward compatibility possible, and makes it technically possible to modify the world map during play. | ||
| + | * Many many tunings, bugfixes, and redesigns. | ||
Revision as of 17:50, 8 May 2020
To get the update: If you’re on Steam, the game will update automatically. If you’re DRM-free, you can re-download from the same link you got the game from originally. It always has the latest version.
If you want to keep playing Alpha 17 on Steam: Right click RimWorld in the Library list -> Properties -> Betas -> Choose alpha17b from the drop-down menu.
It’s finally in Beta! This is build 0.18.1722 of RimWorld. That last number is the number of days since I first started working on RimWorld in February 2012. 1722 days – almost five years. It’s come a very long way since the first public look in September 2013. It’s time to start bringing it to a close, which is why version 0.18 is Beta 18 instead of Alpha 18.
The “Beta” designation means that we’re on the final stretch before the 1.0 release, and that there won’t be major content additions like whole new game systems. Of course we will almost certainly add more content, before the 1.0 release or after. We will also continue seeking feedback so we can fix those little bugs and design problems that only become apparent after tens or hundreds of hours of play. RimWorld has become an exceptionally complex game, and it takes a long time and a huge amount of play to understand how to improve it. So it’ll keep evolving for a while.
In any case, enjoy Beta 18. There is a lot of new stuff. See the features list below for details, and watch the video.
=Compatibility
Saved games from non-modded Alpha 17 should still be loadable, though some things may change upon loading (e.g. characters may forget what they are doing; buildings may insta-deconstruct if they changed size and no longer fit, etc). Complex mods made for A17 won’t be usable and will need to be updated. Very simple mods may still load.
Changes
New swamp biomes
Swamp biomes are hard to move through due to choking vegetation, and hard to build in due to swampy terrain. Many new plants were added to fill out these and other biomes.
- Tropical swamp
- Temperate swamp
- Cold bog
New incidents
- Meteorite impact. A meteorite impacts, leaving a lump of mineable ore.
- Aurora. A beautiful aurora lights up the night sky, improving mood.
- Tornado
- Peace talks quest
- World refugee quest
- Prisoner rescue quest
Storyful combat
A major rework of melee combat, and a new way to report all combat interactions. Storyful combat generates a combat log that reports each blow, miss, swipe, block and fall in the combat. During or after a fight, you can review the combat log to see what happened, to generate a richer story.
Various research has been split up
- Gun research is now broken into several stages, so making advanced guns like assault rifles takes more research than making simple revolvers
- Melee weapon research is now broken into several stages
New furniture
- Bedroll: Portable bed
- Dresser: Passively improves room
- Endtable: Passive improves room
- Various new table sizes
New quest reward special items
- Psychic emanator
- Vanometric power cell
- Infinite chemreactor
- Techprof subpersona core
- Healer mechanite superdose
- Resurrector mechanite superdose
- Orbital bombardment targeter
- Orbital power beam targeter
Tribal content upgrade
- Ikwa melee weapon
- War mask
- Tribal headdress
- Recurve bow
- Tribal hunter
- Tribal heavy archer
- Tribal berserker
New world site components
Used in various situations.
- Sleeping mechanoids
- Animal ambush
- Enemy ambush
New mental breaks
- Insulting spree. Randomly go around and insult people.
- Targeted insulting spree. Follow around a specific other colonist, insulting them repeatedly.
- Tantrum. Go around randomly smashing furniture, buildings, and damageable items.
- Bedroom tantrum. Go to your own room and randomly smash furniture, buildings, and damageable items.
- Targeted tantrum. Go to destroy a single, specific, randomly-chosen, valuable item or building.
- Sadistic rage. Melee attack prisoners for a while. Fists only. Only occurs when there are prisoners to attack. Does not attack downed prisoners.
- Corpse obsession. Dig up a corpse and drop it on a meeting spot table or in a random high-traffic area. The mental break then ends.
- Catatonic. Collapse on the spot into a downed state with a psychological breakdown. Recover some days later. This can be implemented by a “catatonic breakdown” hediff.
- Jailbreaker. Colonist goes to a random prisoner (who is capable of prison breaking), and upon doing a special “spark jailbreak” action with them, induces an immediate prison break in that prisoner.
- Slaughterer. Slaughter random colony animal(s) periodically.
- Murderous rage. Hunt down a specific colonist or prisoner (randomly chosen) and attempt to kill them by melee attack. Uses melee weapon or fists, as equipped. Keep attacking until the target is dead.
- Run wild. The pawn basically starts acting like an animal. You can tame him to try to get him to rejoin.
New mental inspirations
Basically reverse mental breaks – these give temporary bonuses to colonists in high moods.
- Work frenzy (1 day): Global work speed 2.5x
- Go frenzy (1 day): Walk speed 1.5x
- Shoot frenzy (3 days): Shooting hit chance improved as though the pawn is 10 skill levels higher.
- Inspired trade
- Inspired recruitment
- Inspired surgery
- Inspired art
Misc. Changes
- World features like lakes, mountain ranges, and bays are now detected and named. Names are displayed in the world view.
- Caves now form sometimes in mountainous maps. Inside there are special cave plants. There can also be dormant insect hives.
- Many new tale types were added. So, the game will record many new types of events, and colonists can make art about them. Art descriptions should be much more diverse.
- Crop blights now appear and spread over time instead of instantly destroying crops
- Spaceship is now bigger and has one more component, the sensor cluster
- Spaceship quest ending phase: When going to the hidden space ship to finish the game, the game does not end instantly on arrival. The map generates with the ship intact. To take off, first you must power up the ship, which takes some days, during which you must survive raids.
- Space ship construction now requires advanced components, which have their own tech tree and production method
- Split pistol into revolver and autopistol
- Boomalopes can be milked for chemfuel
- Added chemfuel generator, which generates electricity from chemfuel
- Artillery works differently now. There is one type of mortar, which can fire any type of shell, with each shell creating a different effect. The shells are explosive, incendiary, firefoam, and antigrain (a special high-tech warhead).
- Seasonal latitudes: Seasons now more reasonably adjust depending on latitude. Instead of flipping at the equator, there is a seasonless crossover zone.
- Redesigned alert letter types and sounds to be more specific.
- Pawns can now be banished. This is analogous to abandoning pawns in caravans.
- Technical: The save file now contains the actual contents of the planet map, instead of just the seed to generate it. This speed up loading, makes forward compatibility possible, and makes it technically possible to modify the world map during play.
- Many many tunings, bugfixes, and redesigns.