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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

For information about the Biotech DLC, see Mechanoid creation and Mechanitor. For the faction, see Mechanoid Hive.

Mechanoids are deadly autonomously intelligent robots.

Summary

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 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs) (regardless of source), making them immune to all further EMP strikes.

Mechanoid Hive

Main article: Mechanoid Hive

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

Allied Mechanoids

Main article: Mechanoid creation

In the Biotech DLC, many more mechanoid types are added, and mechanoids can be 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.

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 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 - Fast, melee combat mechanoid
Pikeman - High range, low-medium damage combat mechanoid
Lancer - Fast, medium ranged combat mechanoid with the high damage charge lance
Centipede - Crowd-control mechanoid with increidble bulk; 3 possible weapons
Termite - Designed to destroy walls; their thump cannon can do so in 1 hit

Biotech

Labor

Lifter - Mechanoid designed for hauling.
Constructoid - Mechanoid designed for construction.
Fabricor - Mechanoid designed for crafting and tailoring.
Agrihand - Mechanoid designed for plant work.
Cleansweeper - Mechanoid designed for cleaning.
Paramedic - Mechanoid designed for rescue and tending, with the ability to jump and a firefoam pack.
Tunneler - Mechanoid designed for fast mining; comes with a shield, smoke pack, and melee attack

Combat

Militor - Combat mechanoid, armed with a low-power mini-shotgun. Cheap to gestate and maintain.
Scorcher - Combat mechanoid designed to burn enemies
Tesseron - Combat mechanoid with sweeping beam graser attack.
Legionary - Combat mechanoid with bullet shield and needle gun.
Centurion - Built-in shield bubble generator, point-defense bulb turret capable of firing while the mechanoid is moving.

Commanders:

Diabolus - Ultra-powerful, but slow hellsphere cannon. Otherwise, they have a relatively small turret and a flame burst ability.
War queen - Built-in mech gestaor, creating a mass of war urchins.
War urchin - Small mechanoids created by a war queen, they have a finite power supply and can't be recharged.

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 more mechanoids, the ability to create mechanoids, and mechanitor