Glowforest

Glowforest

Geysers spew out massive sulfur clouds that cast the region into permanent darkness. Huge fungal colonies bloom in the dark, fed by the nutrients that the geysers bring to the surface. These areas are alluring and dangerous.

Base Stats

Type

Biome

Texture on World Map

Allows colonies

Yes

Allows Roads and Rivers

Yes

Animal Density

4.8

Plant Density

0.75

Disease MTB Days

50 days

Movement Difficulty

2^[Note]

Forageability

100%

Wild Plant Regrow Days

13 days

Min Temperature

N/A

Max Temperature

N/A

Rainfall range

N/A

Swampiness range

0 – 1

Max Fish Population

600

Weather Commonalities

Clear

18

Fog

2

Rain

1

Foggy rain

2

Dry Thunderstorm

3

Rainy Thunderstorm

1.7

Soft snow

4

Hard snow

4

Gray Pall

1

Torrential rain

0.5

Glowforest is a temperate biome in RimWorld added by the Odyssey DLC.

Summary

Glowforest biomes are permanently covered in smoke, preventing sunlight from reaching at all. This means that a number of fungi can grow freely, and darkness-related precepts will always be active outdoors.

In the lists below the number in brackets represents the relative commonality.

Flora

• Agarilux (0.01)
• Bryolux (0.05)
• Glowstool (0.01)
• Timbershroom (0.1)
• Boomshroom  (0.01)
• Night grass  (12)
• Night rafflesia  (0.01)
• Psilocap  (0.01)
• Willowgill  (0.2)

Fauna

• Boomalope (0.5)
• Capybara (0.5)
• Cassowary (0.5)
• Chinchilla (0.1)
• Cobra (0.2)
• Fennec fox (0.15)
• Iguana (0.22)
• Raccoon (0.5)
• Rat (1)
• Tortoise (0.5)
• Warg (0.07)
• Wild boar (0.5)
• Bullfrog  (0.5)
• Colossus toad  (0.25)
• Megavole  (0.25)
• Monitor lizard  (0.5)
• Peafowl  (0.25)
• Sparrow  (0.25)

Additionally, these animals can spawn in coastal maps:

• Hermit crab  (0.1)

If the map is polluted, then the game may choose to spawn in wild animals from this list instead:

• Boomalope (0.1)
• Raccoon (0.5)
• Rat (1)
• Toxalope  (0.4)

Diseases

Glowforest has a disease MTB of 50 days. The following diseases can occur in a glowforest:

Disease	Commonality
Flu	100
Plague	100
Malaria	160
Sleeping sickness	140
Gut worms	80
Fibrous mechanites	30
Sensory mechanites	30
Muscle parasites	80
Animal flu	100
Animal plague	100
Organ decay	10

Fish

The table below contains the list of all of the fish that can be caught - as well as where they can be caught.

Fish	Water body	Rarity
Bass	Freshwater	Common
Catfish	Freshwater	Uncommon
Bluefish	Saltwater	Common
Marlin	Saltwater	Common
Flounder	Saltwater	Uncommon

Analysis

Glowforest is essentially a biome that's permanently night, although the fungal light will allow pawns to move and work at normal pace. Darkness-related ideoligions will benefit from the glowforest, with combat in darkness being a massive accuracy boost that's always active in a glowforest.

• Growing and Food: Moderate (Ideology) or Very Difficult (no Ideology) - It is warm enough for crops to grow for long periods, animals are very frequent, and food can be foraged. However, no sunlight reaches the glowforest, meaning normal crops cannot grow without sun lamps. With Ideology installed, nutrifungus can be grown in the darkness (and is not disrupted by fungal light), meaning food should not be an issue at the cost of the −3 Ate fungus cooked moodlet. Even then, other useful crops like healroot and cotton cannot be grown normally. Without Ideology, food must be foraged or hunted for until sun lamps are available.

• Disease: Difficult - Disease occurs as often as a temperate forest, but healroot cannot be grown at all until a sun lamp is installed. This limits the medicine supply until sun lamp growing is possible or until medicinemaker dryads are available.

• Temperature: Easy to Moderate - Glowforest tiles are generally temperate or warm, generally not too warm outside of summer days and heat waves.

• Fires: Difficult - Plants are denser than temperate forest, boomalopes are common animals, and boomshrooms add further explosiveness, so fires are common and difficult to contain.

Overall starting difficulty is difficult, although easier with Ideology as nutrifungus can secure food in the early game. Even with Ideology, the lack of medicine can be dangerous, especially for Tribal starts which won't establish sun lamps for a while.

Gallery

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  A fully generated glowforest

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  Glowforest's texture on the world map

Version history

• Odyssey DLC Release - Added.
• Version/1.6.4528 - In the glowforest, reduced caravan movement difficulty and disease occurrence. (Formerly: 4 movement difficulty, MTB 30 days diseases)

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Biomes

Temperate

Temperate forest • Temperate swamp • Scarlands

Hot

Tropical rainforest • Tropical swamp • Arid shrubland • Desert • Extreme desert • Glowforest • Grassland • Lava field

Cold

Boreal forest • Cold bog • Tundra • Ice sheet • Sea ice • Glacial plain • Orbit

Water

Lake • Ocean

Pocket map

Underground • Labyrinth • Metal hell • Undercave • Insect lair