Ideoligion

Ideoligions are both a system of mechanics introduced by, and the primary focus of, the Ideology DLC. They allow colonies to introduce a variety of new restrictions and capabilities to change gameplay, as well as new interactions with other factions.

Type of ideoligion[edit]

Whenever you start a new game, you will see the Ideology selection menu once you've selected a world tile.

Ideology system inactive - Disables most of the Ideology system. Player colonies and factions will no longer have any ideoligion. With this option, you can create any style, or cosmetic variant, of building (click the circle icon in the Architect tab, right next to the search bar).

However, some aspects of the ideoligion system remain. You can still assign a Leader, and will have access to a funeral and 2 rituals - a dance party and drum party.^[Verify] In addition, there will be 3 randomized relics that you can search for.

Create ideoligion (fluid) - Design an ideoligion that can change over time.

A fluid ideoligion only has access to 1 meme at the start of the game, which cannot be a high impact meme. Otherwise, a fluid ideoligion has the same customization options as a fixed ideoligion. The difference is that a fluid ideology can change over the course of the game. As you gain development points, you can add / remove memes, and re-customize just about everything else.

Create ideoligion (fixed) - Design an ideoligion with complete control.

Presets - Use an ideoligion already created for you. Want to live under the mountain, but don't want to make a full ideoligion? Pick the "Mole people" preset. You will start with a Funeral and 2 other random rituals, as well as a random relic. Other aspects of the ideoligion will also be randomized.

For example, the "Classic-like" preset will have the following precepts:

Corpses: Ugly
Insect meat: Despised
Marriage name: Usually man's
Eating nutrient paste: Disgusting
Physical love: Free
Women's spouses: One only
Men's spouses: One only

Development points[edit]

For a guide for how to convert a non-fluid ideoligion to a fluid ideoligion via save editing, see Fluid ideoligion save conversion guide.

Fluid ideoligions are mostly the same as a static one, but can be changed over time through development points. When you have enough points, you can reform the ideoligion. It costs 10 points for the first reformation, and increases by +2 per reform until a max of 20 points. You cannot "store" points; once you can reform, no more points are gained.

Development points can be obtained in the following ways:

Performing rituals. Rituals will give a varying amount of points depending on if they are "anytime" rituals or "dated" rituals, how many rituals the ideoligion has and the quality of the ritual. If a ritual achieves a goal that awards development points (such as a conversion), both the points for the goal and the ritual are received in full. Anytime rituals (including funerals) give 1 point for a good outcome and 2 points for a great outcome.

Dated rituals grant more points the fewer rituals the ideoligion has, -as detailed below- however Funerals, Gladiator Duels, Blinding, and Scarification rituals Do not count for the following table.

	Terrible	Boring	Fun	Unforgettable
1 Ritual	2	4	6	7
2 Rituals	1	2	3	4
3 Rituals	1	1	2	3
4 Rituals	0	1	1	2
5+ Rituals	0	1	1	1

Converting someone: 1 point.

Certain precepts allow an ideoligion to gain points from actions related to the precept.

Blindness: Respected, Elevated or Sublime: Blinding someone: 1 point
Charity: Worthwhile, Important or Essential: Completing charity quests and accepting charity events
- Helping beggars: 2 points
- Accepting joining wanderer: 1 point
- Giving hospitality : 2 points
- Saving shuttle crash survivors : 3 points
- Saving a pod crash victim: 1 point
- Saving the noble wimp : 1 point
- Helping the threatened joiner: 2 points
Execution: Respected if guilty or Required: Executing prisoner: 1 point
Proselytizing: Occasional, Sometimes or Frequent:
- Converting a new member: 1 point (in addition to the normal 1 point)
- Obtaining a relic: 5 points
- Completing the pilgrims quest: 2 points
Raiding: Respected or Required:
- Raiding someone: 1 point
- Raiding a bandit camp or work site: 2 points
Ranching: Central: Successfully completing an Animal Hospitality quest: 2 points
Slavery: Honorable: Enslaving new prisoner: 1 point
Gauranlen Connection: Strong: Planting gauranlen tree: 1 point

Reformation allows you to add or remove 1 meme, or change the structure of your ideoligion. If you add a meme, you cannot remove / replace another meme or change structure. In addition, you can only add 1 style at a time. All other changes are unlimited.

Forming an ideoligion[edit]

An ideoligion consists of many separate aspects to customize:

Primary

Structure - What deities (or lack thereof) that followers believe in. Examples include Abstract theist, that "god(s) are formless and everywhere", or Christian origin, which is closer to the Abrahamic religions of the west. Structure helps determine the randomized names and lore of your ideoligion. This is almost entirely cosmetic, but can add a few ritual options.

Memes - The basic beliefs of the ideoligion. An ideoligion with the Cannibal meme will definitely enjoy human meat. Each ideoligion can have up to 4 memes. Most memes do not add much on their own, but affect what precepts the ideoligion has and cannot have. Some memes have access to role specialists.

Precepts - What a follower's belief systems are. Precepts directly determine how colonists will react to certain actions. An ideoligion with Cannibalism: Preferred will have followers enjoy eating human meat. An ideoligion with Cannibalism: Required (Ravenous) will want to eat human meat for every meal.

Certain precepts have statistical effects beyond mood. For instance, Drugs: Essential boosts drug crop yield, synthesis speed, and sell price. These tend to be locked behind their associated meme.

Secondary

Rituals - Special occasions, from Dance Party to Animal Sacrifice to Funerals. Every time you do a ritual, you can end up with a good or bad outcome. Good outcomes will increase colonist mood, and come with a special, defined reward. For example, a spectacular festival can give you a random recruit, or cause a gauranlen pod to sprout.

You can increase the chances of a good outcomes by following the ritual's requirements. A funeral can be done without your colonist's body, but the quality will be increased if the corpse is buried.

Roles - Every ideoligion has a Leader and Moral Guide. From there, you can have up to 2 types of specialists. A Shooting Specialist will be great at ranged combat, but is unable to do many types of skilled work. Note that you can have as many specialists of a specific type as you want. For example, you can have 3 Shooting Specialists in a single colony, but cannot have a Shooting, Plants, AND Research specialist in the same ideoligion.

Relics - Ideoligions can have relics. Relics can be either Legendary quality weapons or specific types of items that serve no other purpose. Relics must be found from a specific, multi-part relic hunt quest, which can take many years. Having a relic present will cause a number of benefits.

Buildings - Buildings used by your ideoligion: altars, sacrificial flags, etc. Largely used for rituals. Altars and the like will eventually be demanded by followers of your ideoligion in a temple room.

Preferences - Ideoligions can prefer apparel, weapons, and xenotypes , as well as venerate specific animals. Colonists will like having/being around preferred items. Whenever a colonist will dislike a non-preferred item is dependent on the preference in question.

Descriptive

Styles - How buildings made by an ideoligious builder will look. Largely cosmetic. However, it interacts with the Diversity of Thought precept. If colonists are neutral or bigoted, then they will enjoy being near styles of the same ideoligion. If colonists appreciate Diversity of Thought, they will enjoy being near styled buildings that their ideoligion could not make. Certain styles will affect more or less buildings.

Cultures - Roughly where your ideoligion comes from. Astropolitian represents those coming from space. Corunan represents tribes in general. Entirely cosmetic.

Lore - A randomly generated description of the ideoligion, based off of memes, structures, cultures, etc. Entirely cosmetic.

Icon / color - An ideoligion's icon is used whenever an ideology will be displayed. The color of the icon will be a preferred color for followers. Followers gain a +1 moodlet for wearing their ideology's color, or their own favorite color. All colors require dye and the same amount of dye.

Certainty[edit]

Certainty is how willing a colonist is to maintain their current ideoligion. Conversion attempts reduce certainty. Once certainty hits 0%, a pawn's ideology will change.

Reassurance[edit]

Certainty increases by a set rate per day, which is dependent on current mood.

1% / day at 20% mood or less
2% / day at 50% mood
3% / day at 80% mood or more

Between 20% and 80% mood, certainty gain is linearly interpolated. Certainty does not regenerate while deathresting.^{[What else?]} The Moral Guide of an ideoligion can also reassure pawns of the same ideoligion, which increases certainty based on Conversion Power. If a pawn is converted, then they will start with 50% certainty in their new ideoligion.

Conversion[edit]

These ways to lower certainty are all considered "Conversion". The certainty reduction is increased by the converter's Conversion Power, and decreased by the user's Global Certainty Loss Factor. Conversion strength is then multiplied by relevant traits. For example, an Undergrounder will be harder to convert from an ideology with the Tunneler meme.

Pawns will naturally try to convert each other during day-to-day conversation. This is governed by the Ideoligion Spread Chance, which is increased by the Proselytizing precept.
The role of Moral Guide has a "Convert" ability. This is the same as normal conversion, but done on command. This has a cooldown of 3 days.
If a pawn is held prisoner, you can set the prisoner to Convert in the Prisoner. If there is a warden of the selected ideoligion available, they will start converting the prisoner.

The certainty reduction of a convert attempt can be calculated as follows:

Certainty loss = 6% × Conversion Power of the Converter × If Converter is Moral Guide (×2) × Global Certainty Loss Factor of Convertee × Relic Conversion Power Factor × Trait/Meme Agreeableness × AI Storyteller's Low pop conversion boost multiplier

Relic conversion factor:

Relic Conversion Power Factor

Other certainty reduction: These ways reduce certainty by a set percentage. Reduction is not (directly) impacted by Conversion Power or Certainty Loss Factor.

Conversion ritual. Requires a Moral Guide. An effective conversion ritual reduces certainty by 30%. A masterful conversion ritual instantly converts the user to the desired ideoligion. Poor quality rituals instead increase certainty. The quality of the ritual increases the chance of an effective/masterful ritual; quality is increased by Social Impact of the moral guide, among other factors.
Crisis of belief is an extreme mental break which immediately reduces certainty by 50%. If certainty reaches 0%, then the pawn will convert to a random ideoligion - even if you've attempted to convert them to a specific ideoligion prior. Notably, crisis of belief is one of 2 mental breaks that prisoners associated with another faction are able to go through. (Colonists who have been arrested can go through other breaks)
A throne speech can convert listeners to the speaker's ideoligion.^[Verify]

Children are a unique case of conversion, as babies have no ideoligion and one is assigned to them once they turn 3. For a more detailed description of how the ideoligion of a child is determined, see the Children page.

Structure[edit]

Choosing your structure affects which symbols the game uses for your ideoligion, and allows for the selection of some rituals that would otherwise require specific memes. It also influences some random generation options and flavor text but these can be overridden by player selection.

Structure	Description	Styles	Unlocked Rituals	Chance to Have Precept
Abstract theist	The god(s) do not have physical form, but are everywhere at once. They know all, and can do anything. Their will defines the moral structure of the universe.
Animist	Spirits live in everything around us. In the plants and animals, rivers and trees, sky and stars. The moral structure of the universe springs from the necessity of respecting them.	Animalist
Archist	Archotechs are the true gods. They know the moral structure of the universe, and serving them is how we will connect with it.
Buddhist origin	This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Buddhism. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar.	Buddhist	Smokeleaf circle	Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
Christian origin	This is a variant of the abstract theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Christianity. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar.	Christian	Christmas tree party	Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
Embodied theist	The god(s) walk the planets like us, yet they are powerful and immortal as we are not. They decide the moral structure of the universe.
Hindu origin	This is a variant of the embodied theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Hinduism. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar.	Hindu	Smokeleaf circle	Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
Ideological	There are no gods. The moral structure of the universe is found in our grand narrative of social forces.		Symbol burning
Islamic origin	This is a variant of the abstract theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Islam. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar.	Islamic		Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed

Cultures[edit]

Cultures affect names, appearances, and symbols.

Culture	Factions Allowed	Description
Astropolitan	New Arrivals	A broad collection of cultures common among frequent space travelers.
Rustican	Outlander Factions	A hardy industrial cultures common among rimworld outlanders.
Corunan	New Tribe Tribal Factions	An ancient culture common among rimworld tribes.
Kriminul	Pirate Factions	A broad category describing the styles and practices of many pirate groups.
Sophian	Empire Faction Ancient Factions	A techno-feudal culture centered on the planet Sophiamunda.

Styles[edit]

An ideoligion can have 0-3 associated styles. People belonging to that ideoligion will apply those styles when making specific items. Colonists will get thoughts based on the styles of the objects around them, depending on their ideoligion's diversity of thought precept either for having surroundings match or not match their ideoligion. Neutral surroundings produce no thought. If multiple styles of an ideoligion affect the same object, left-most applies. Note that building appearance in the construction menu will be based on your primary ideoligion, but the actual building might be different if built by a pawn of a different ideoligion.

Style	New buildables	Affects items	Affects objects	Affects ritual ambience sound	Player-accessible
Hindu	-	Simple helmet, Flak helmet	Small sculpture, Large sculpture, Grand sculpture	Yes	Yes
Christian	-	-	Small sculpture, Large sculpture, Grand sculpture	Yes	Yes
Islamic	-	-	Small sculpture, Large sculpture, Grand sculpture	Yes	Yes
Buddhist	-	-	Small sculpture, Large sculpture, Grand sculpture	Yes	Yes
Morbid	Morbid carpet, Morbid slab (broad), Morbid slab (medium), Morbid stone tile	Recon helmet, Marine helmet, Cataphract helmet	Small sculpture, Large sculpture, Grand sculpture, Small altar, Medium altar, Large altar, Grand altar, Stool, Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3), Standing lamp, Wall lamp, Torch lamp, Column	Yes	Yes
Totemic	Totemic boards, Totemic slab (broad), Totemic slab (medium), Totemic stone tile	Recon helmet, Marine helmet, Cataphract helmet	Small sculpture, Large sculpture, Grand sculpture, Small altar, Medium altar, Large altar, Grand altar, Stool, Dining chair, Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3), Standing lamp, Wall lamp, Torch lamp, Column	Yes	Yes
Spikecore	Spikecore floor-star (broad), Spikecore floor-star (medium), Spikecore plates, Spikecore stone tile	Simple helmet, Flak helmet, Flak jacket, Duster, Jacket, Parka	Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3), Standing lamp, Wall lamp, Torch lamp, Column	Yes	Yes
Rustic	Rustic rug (broad), Rustic rug (medium)	Simple helmet, Flak helmet	Column, Standing lamp, Wall lamp, Torch lamp, Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3)	Yes	Yes
Animalist	Animalist slab (broad), Animalist slab (medium)	Recon helmet, Marine helmet, Cataphract helmet, War mask	Small sculpture, Large sculpture, Grand sculpture	Yes	Yes
Techist	Hex carpet, Hex tile	-	Column, Plant pot, Standing lamp, Wall lamp, Shelf, Autodoor, Table (1x2, 2x2, 2x4, 3x3)	Yes	Yes
Horaxian	-	Axe, Club, Gladius, Knife, Mace	-	No	No

Style dominance[edit]

Pawns consider objects with style dominance within 27 tiles outdoors, or in the same room regardless of distance. An item is considered "uniform" if pawn's ideoligion can build it, and "diverse" otherwise, regardless of the actual style: for example, a totemic table will be considered diverse for an ideoligion with morbid and totemic styles, because the morbid style overrides totemic tables. If the total style dominance of uniform or diverse objects is at least 10 more than the other category, pawns will get an appropriate thought; the actual style of the object does not matter for stacking either: a morbid slab and a totemic slab in the same room will be uniform for an ideoligion with both styles, cancel each other out and give no thought for an ideoligion with one of those styles, and diverse for an ideoligion with neither.

An ideoligion with no styles would still consider its own buildings (such as ideogram), but not ritual seats, to be uniform.

Clothing, whether worn or placed on the ground, and uninstalled objects have no impact on style dominance.

	Style Dominance
Animalist slab (broad)	40
Animalist slab (medium)	30
Biomutation pulser	10
Burnbong	10
Cannibal platter	10
Christmas tree	10
Column	10
Darktorch	5
Effigy	10
Fungus darktorch	5
Grand altar	50
Grand sculpture	40
Hex carpet	1
Hex tile	1
Ideogram	20
Incense shrine	10
Kneel pillow	5
Kneel sheet	5
Large altar	40
Large sculpture	20
Medium altar	20
Mindbend carpet	1
Morbid carpet	1
Morbid slab (broad)	40
Morbid slab (medium)	30
Morbid stone tile	1
Pew	5
Pyre	10
Rustic rug (broad)	40
Rustic rug (medium)	30
Sacrificial flag	10
Small altar	10
Small sculpture	10
Spikecore floor-star (broad)	40
Spikecore floor-star (medium)	30
Spikecore plates	1
Spikecore stone tile	1
Standing lamp	5
Table (1x2)	5
Table (2x2)	10
Table (2x4)	20
Table (3x3)	20
Torch lamp	5
Totemic boards	1
Totemic slab (broad)	40
Totemic slab (medium)	30
Totemic stone tile	1
Void sculpture	10
Wall torch lamp	5

Memes[edit]

You must choose one to four memes at the beginning of your playthrough to form the foundational ideas of your ideoligion. Some have much more gameplay impact than others. Hovering over a meme will show you the information in this table.

Meme	Description	Impact	Incompatible Memes	Required Precepts	Chance to Have Precept	Disabled Precepts	Unlocked Roles	Required Rituals	Unlocked Rituals	New Buildables	Unlocked Craftables	Start with Research	Agreeing Traits	Conflicting Traits	Styles
Animal personhood	Animals have rights as humans do.	High	Rancher	Animal connection: Strong Slaughtering animals: Prohibited, Horrible, or Disapproved Meat eating: Abhorrent, Horrible, or Disapproved	-	-	Animals specialist	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Blindsight	Only those who are blind can perceive true reality.	High	Darkness	Blind psysense: Strong Blindness: Respected, Elevated, or Sublime	-	Blindness: Horrible Lighting: Darklight preferred Combat in darkness: preferred	Medical specialist	Blinding	-	-	Blindfold	-	-	-	-
Cannibal	We must consume human flesh.	High	-	Organ use: Acceptable Cannibalism: Preferred, Required (strong), or Required (ravenous) Execution: Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required	-	Execution: Always horrible or Horrible if innocent	-	-	Cannibal feast	-	-	-	Cannibal	-	Morbid
Collectivist	Each person is part of a greater whole. People should work to play their part and help the group.	Low	Individualist	Work drive: Tripled	Visage mask: Relaxed	Marriage name: Keep names	-	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
Darkness	Bright light burns and destroys! Darkness nourishes and creates. People ought to live in darkness.	High	Blindsight	Lighting: Darklight preferred Combat in darkness: Preferred	-	-	Mining specialist	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Female supremacy	Women are the superior gender and should rule.	Medium	Male supremacy	-	Burka: Relaxed Veil: Strong	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Misandrist	Misogynist	-
Flesh purity	The human body should not be debased.	Medium	High life Transhumanist	Drug use: Prohibited Body modification: Abhorrent Scarification: Horrible	-	Body modification: Approved Physical love: Free and approved	Medical specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	Body purist Nudist	Body modder	-
Guilty	Our people carry guilt from ages past. Others are more worthy.	Low	Supremacist Loyalist	Pain: Idealized Charity: Essential, Important, or Worthwhile	-	Apostasy: Abhorrent, Horrible, and Guilty Slavery: Honorable	-	-	Symbol burning	-	Torture crown	-	-	-	-
High life	Exotic states of mind are central to a good life.	Medium	Flesh purity	Drug use: Essential	Flophat: Relaxed	Drug use: Prohibited, Medical only, or Medical/social only	Plants specialist	Smokeleaf circle	Smokeleaf circle	Autobong Mindbend carpet	-	-	Chemical interest Chemical fascination	-	-
Human primacy	Humans are the moral center of the universe.	Medium	Nature primacy	Bonding: Disapproved	-	Slaughtering animals: Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved Killing innocent animals: Abhorrent, Horrible, and Disapproved Meat eating: Abhorrent, Horrible, Disapproved, Mildly required, Seriously required, and Strictly required Mining: Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved Cutting trees: Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved	Production specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
Individualist	Each person is a free individual with the right to their own ideas and decisions. Nobody should be made to conform.	Low	Collectivist Supremacist	-	-	Slavery: Honorable	-	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
Loyalist	We stand for our own before others.	Low	Supremacist Guilty	-	-	-	-	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
Male supremacy	Men are the superior gender and should rule.	Medium	Female supremacy	-	Burka: Relaxed Veil: Strong	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Misogynist	Misandrist	-
Nature primacy	Man is a stain on nature's perfection.	Medium	Human primacy	-	-	-	Plants specialist		-	-	-	-	-	-	Animalist
Nudism	Clothing binds, controls, and suffocates us. We should all hang free.	High	-	Male clothing: Fully nude or Pants at most Female clothing: Fully nude or Pants at most	-	-	-	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	Nudist	-	-
Pain is virtue	Virtue is shown through suffering of self and others.	High	-	Pain: Idealized Comfort: Ignored Slab bed: Preferred	-	Charity: Essential, Important, and Worthwhile Execution: Always abhorrent and Always horrible Scarification: Horrible Skullspike: Disapproved	-	Scarification	Symbol burning	Slab bed Slab double bed	Torture crown	-	Ascetic Tortured artist Masochist	Wimp Gourmand	Morbid
Proselytizer	It is our duty to spread our beliefs.	Medium	-	Proselytizing: Occasional, Sometimes, or Frequent	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Raider	The strong should take from the weak.	Medium	-	Raiding: Respected or Required Execution: Horrible if innocent, Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required	-	Skullspike: Disapproved Slavery: Abhorrent, Horrible, and Disapproved	Shooting specialist Melee specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rancher	Raising animals is the right way; raising plants to eat is not.	Medium	Animal personhood	Ranching: Central Meat eating: Mildly required, Seriously required, or Strictly required	-	-	Animals specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
Supremacist	Our people should dominate all others.	Low	Individualist Loyalist Guilty	Slavery: Acceptable or Honorable Execution: Required, Respected if guilty, or Don't care	-	Charity: Essential, Important and Worthwhile Skullspike: Disapproved	Shooting specialist Melee specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
Transhumanist	Human progress means merging with technology.	Medium	Flesh purity	Sleep accelerator: Preferred Neural supercharge: Preferred Biosculpting: Accelerated Age reversal: Demanded Eating nutrient paste: Don't mind Body modification: Approved	Slicecap: Relaxed	Body modification: Abhorrent or Disapproved	Research specialist	-	-	Hex carpet Hex tile Neural supercharger Sleep accelerator	-	-	Body modder	Body purist	Techist
Tree connection	Trees are the essence of life, and we must be near them.	High	-	Trees: Desired Rough living: Welcomed Temperature: Tough Gauranlen connection: Strong	-	-	Plants specialist	-	-	-	-	Tree sowing	-	-	-
Tunneler	Humans ought to live underground, and enjoy the succulent fruit of the depths.	High	-	Fungus: Preferred Insect meat: Loved Small spaces: Don't care Mining yield: High	-	Mining: Prohibited, Horrible, or Disapproved	Mining specialist	-	-	Fungal gravel	-	Stonecutting	Undergrounder	-	-
Bloodfeeding	Drinking blood is sacred. Bloodfeeders should be worshipped.	Medium	-	Bloodfeeders: Revered Organ use: Acceptable Cannibalism: Acceptable or Preferred Execution: Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Electricity Deathrest	-	-	Morbid
Ritualist	There is a greater energy in the universe. Through ritual we can understand it and harness its power.	Medium	-	Psychic rituals: Exalted Void study: Very efficient Research: Slow, Very Slow or Extremely Slow	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Morbid
Inhuman	Humanity is a barrier to our connection with the machine god and its pleasurable rewards.	High	-	Inhumanizing: Required Execution: Respected if guilty Cannibalism: Acceptable Corpses: Don't care Eating nutrient paste: Don't mind Skullspike: Desired Slavery: Acceptable Physical love: Free Male clothing: No rules Female clothing: No rules Organ use: Acceptable Diversity of thought: Neutral, Mild bigotry, Moderate bigotry or Intense bigotry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Other Faction Customization[edit]

Meme	Civil outlander	Rough outlander	Savage tribe	Cannibal tribe	Nudist tribe	Pirate gang	Pirate cannibal gang	Shattered Empire	Ancient faction***	Yttakin pirates	Waster pirates	Sanguophages	Horax cult
Supremacist		Required	Required			Required	Required				Required
Loyalist		*	*					Required	Required
Guilty		*	*
Individualist	**	*	*
Collectivist	**							Required
Transhumanist									Required
Flesh purity
Raider						Required	Required			Required	Required
Proselytizer
High life
Nature primacy
Human primacy									Required
Female supremacy
Male supremacy
Animal personhood										Required
Rancher
Pain is virtue
Darkness
Tunneler
Tree connection
Nudism					Required
Blindsight
Cannibal				Required			Required					Required
Bloodfeeding												Required
Ritualist													Required
Inhuman													Required

* Appears on faction's options but conflicts with required meme
** Since only two memes available, one of Individualist OR Collectivist must be chosen
*** Only restricts what memes can be auto-generated and loaded from saved ideoligions, can otherwise lack or possess any memes

Natural goodwill with other factions[edit]

Additionally, Supremacist and Raider have −50 with everyone, Loyalist −10 with everyone, and Guilty +10 with everyone. There is a +10 bonus for having the same ideoligion.

Modifiers stack, but each pair only applies once; for example Flesh purity + Cannibal vs Flesh purity + Cannibal give +10 for Flesh purity/Flesh purity, +10 for Cannibal/Cannibal, and +10 for Flesh purity/Cannibal.

	Individualist	Collectivist	Transhumanist	Flesh purity	Proselytizer	High life	Nature primacy	Human primacy	Female supremacy	Male supremacy	Animal personhood	Rancher	Pain is virtue	Nudism	Cannibal
Individualist	+10	-10			-10				-10	-10					-10
Collectivist	-10	+10
Transhumanist			+10	-20			-20	+10
Flesh purity			-20	+10		-30		+10							+10
Proselytizer	-10
High life				-30		+10
Nature primacy			-20				+10	-30			+10	-30
Human primacy			+10	+10			-30	+10			-10
Female supremacy	-10								+10	-30
Male supremacy	-10								-30	+10
Animal personhood							+10	-10			+10	-10
Rancher							-30				-10
Pain is virtue													+10		+10
Nudism														+10
Cannibal	-10			+10									+10		+10

Precepts[edit]

Associated precepts have a chance to appear if a meme is present, but can still be removed if not required.

Some precepts are available to all ideologies, some require at least one of the enabling memes, and some may be unavailable if certain memes are present.

Present in every ideoligion[edit]

There are 19 issues (precept categories) that are present in every ideoligion and may not be removed. However, their level may be changed. They include "basic" precepts from the base game, used in "Play Classic".

Issue	Precept	Description	Requirement	Associated	Effects
Blindness	Horrible	Blinding people for ideoligious reasons is horrible.	Not Blindsight		Colonists gain Mood: Someone got blinded: -2 unless they have the Psychopath or Bloodlust traits
	Respected	To be blind is a moral thing worthy of respect.	Blindsight	Blindsight	Colonists gain Moods: Blind (+5), Vision Blocked (+2), or Was Blinded (+3). They also gain a +10 Opinion bonus towards blind pawns, or a -2 Opinion malus to sighted pawns.
	Elevated	The blind stand pure above the sighted.	Blindsight	Blindsight	Moods as Respected, but Blind increases to +10 and Was Blinded to +5. Half-Blind (+1) and Not Blind (-3) are added. Opinion bonus towards blind pawns increases to +35 and malus towards sighted pawns increases to -10. Opinion bonus towards half-blind pawns is added (+10).
	Sublime	Only the blind can be truly noble, for the sighted find their minds clouded by physical vision.	Blindsight	Blindsight	Moods as Elevated, but Blind increases to +15, Was Blinded to +6. Half-Blind drops to -1, and Not Blind to -6. Opinion bonus towards blind pawns increases to +50 and malus towards sighted pawns increases to -30.
Cannibalism	Abhorrent	Eating human flesh is a deeply abhorrent and disgusting act.			-20 mood for eating human meat -12 mood for butchering a human -5 mood for a human butchered in the colony -20 opinion for butchering a human -10 opinion for eating human meat -2, -4, -6, -8 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
	Horrible	Eating human flesh is a horrible thing to do.			-12 mood for eating human meat -6 mood for butchering a human -3 mood for a human butchered in the colony -10 opinion for butchering a human -5 opinion for eating human meat -2, -3, -5, -6 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
	Disapproved	Eating human flesh is an ugly thing to do.		Pain is virtue	-5 mood for eating human meat -3 mood for butchering a human -1 mood for a human butchered in the colony -5 opinion for butchering a human -3 opinion for eating human meat -1, -2, -3, -4 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
	Acceptable	Human meat is just meat, like any other.		Pain is virtue	Mood: Nullifies -4 Observed corpse mood for 0.5 days
	Preferred	To consume human meat is a noble and necessary part of life.		Cannibal	Mood: Nullifies -4 Observed corpse mood for 0.5 days +2 mood for eating human meat -2 mood for not eating human meat for ? days +1, +2, +3, +4 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
	Required (strong)	Consuming human flesh is important. It should be in every meal.	Cannibal	Cannibal	Mood: Nullifies -4 Observed corpse mood for 0.5 days -2 mood for eating food without human meat -3 opinion for eating food without human meat +4 mood for eating human meat -4 mood for not eating human meat for ? days +2, +3, +5, +6 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
	Required (ravenous)	Man-flesh is morality. To eat a meal without it is unthinkable.	Cannibal	Cannibal	Mood: Nullifies -4 Observed corpse mood for 0.5 days -4 mood for eating food without human meat -5 opinion for eating food without human meat +6 mood for eating human meat -8 mood for not eating human meat for ? days +2, +4, +6, +8 mood for 1, 2, 3, 4 human leather clothing
Corpses	Ugly	The sight of a dead person is horrible.			Mood: Experiences default -4 Observed corpse mood for 0.5 days upon seeing a human corpse. Note that this thought is nullified by the Bloodlust, Psychopath, and Cannibal traits, as well as pro-Cannibalism precepts. Experiences default -6 Observed rotting corpse mood for 0.5 days
Corpses	Don't care	The sight of a dead person is nothing to be concerned about.	Pain is virtue Cannibal Supremacist Raider	Pain is virtue Cannibal Raider	Mood: Nullifies -4 Observed corpse mood for 0.5 days Nullifies -6 Observed rotting corpse mood for 0.5 days
Diversity of thought	Intense bigotry	Other beliefs are evil deceptions ruining the world. It's totally unacceptable to let them exist in the community.		Loyalist Proselytizer	-3, -6, or -9 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +3 for having all colonists of the same ideology -25 opinion for different ideology -5 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -4 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +5 mood for matching style surroundings -4 mood for mismatching style surroundings -6 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
	Moderate bigotry	Other beliefs are immoral delusions which do real harm. It's bad to let them exist in the community.		Loyalist Proselytizer	-2, -4, or -6 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +2 for having all colonists of the same ideology -15 opinion for different ideology -4 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -2 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +4 mood for matching style surroundings -3 mood for mismatching style surroundings -4 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
	Mild bigotry	Other beliefs are clearly folly. It's not good to let them exist in the community.		Loyalist Proselytizer	-1, -2, or -3 mood for having other ideologies in the colony +1 for having all colonists of the same ideology -5 opinion for different ideology -3 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion -1 mood for having another ideoligion's altar in the same room as own ideoligion's +3 mood for matching style surroundings -2 mood for mismatching style surroundings -3 mood for participating in another ideoligion's ritual
	Neutral	Other beliefs are neither approved or disapproved.			-2 mood for having a leader of a different ideoligion +2 mood for matching style surroundings 0 mood for mismatching style surroundings
	Appreciated	Other beliefs are worth understanding. It's good to live with others who think differently.		Individualist	+1, +2, or +3 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +2 mood for mismatching style surroundings
	Highly appreciated	Other beliefs hold unique knowledge. It's great to live with others who think differently.	Individualist	Individualist	+2, +4, or +6 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +3 mood for mismatching style surroundings
	Exalted	Working through disagreement is the height of morality. It's very moral to live with others who think differently.	Individualist	Individualist	+3, +6, or +9 mood for having other ideologies in the colony 0 mood for matching style surroundings +4 mood for mismatching style surroundings
Eating Nutrient Paste	Disgusting	Nutrient paste is disgusting.			Mood: Experiences default -4 Ate nutrient paste meal mood for 1 days^{[Verify stacking]} Note that this thought is nullified by the ascetic trait.
Eating Nutrient Paste	Don't mind	There's nothing wrong with a meal of efficient, healthy nutrient paste.	Transhumanist	Transhumanist	Mood: Nullifies -4 Ate nutrient paste meal mood for 1 days^{[Verify stacking]}
Execution	Always abhorrent	Executing a prisoner is an abhorrent evil under any circumstances.	Not pain is virtue	Individualist	Pawns will not execute prisoners -20 mood for 6 days for killing a prisoner -3/-4/-6/-7/-7 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest/ripscanning kill on a colonist -3/-4/-6/-7/-7 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest/ripscanning kill on a prisoner or guest -7 mood for 6 days for non-execution prisoner death -25 opinion for executing a prisoner -25 opinion for killing a prisoner^{[Moods need verification]}
	Always horrible	Executing a prisoner is a horrible thing under any circumstances.	Not pain is virtue Not cannibal	Individualist	-15 mood for 6 days for killing or executing a prisoner -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a colonist -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a prisoner or guest -5 mood for 6 days for non-execution guilty prisoner death -15 opinion for executing a prisoner -15 opinion for killing a prisoner^{[Moods need verification]}
	Horrible if innocent	Executing an innocent prisoner is a horrible thing. If the prisoner is guilty, it's acceptable.	Not cannibal		-15 mood for 6 days for killing or executing an innocent prisoner -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a colonist -2/-3/-5/-6 mood for 6 days for guilty execution/euthanasia/execution/organ harvest kill on a prisoner or guest -5 mood for 6 days for non-execution guilty prisoner death -30 opinion for executing an innocent prisoner -15 opinion for killing an innocent prisoner^{[Moods need verification]}
	Don't care	Executing prisoners is acceptable, whether they are guilty or innocent.
	Respected if guilty	Executing prisoners is acceptable. If the prisoner is guilty, it is cause for great happiness.		Pain is virtue Collectivist	+10 mood for 6 days for executing a guilty prisoner +3 mood for 6 days for a guilty prisoner executed +20 opinion for executing a guilty prisoner
	Required	Prisoners must be executed on a regular basis. When they are, it is a happy occasion.		Supremacist Pain is virtue	+10 mood for 6 days for executing a prisoner +10 mood for killing a prisoner +3 mood for 2 days for prisoner or guest executed -3 mood for no executions for 30 days +15 opinion for executing a prisoner +15 opinion for killing a prisoner
Fungus	Despised	That dark-grown fungus food is just disgusting	Not Tunneler		Ate fungus raw: -6 Ate fungus cooked: -3
Fungus	Preferred	Fungus is the right crop to eat. Crops of the light are poisoned by the air and sun.	Tunneler	Tunneler	Ate fungus: +3 Ate cooked fungus: +3 Ate non-fungus plant raw: -5 Ate non-fungus plant cooked: -3
Insect Meat	Despised	Insect meat is disgusting to even look at, much less eat. Slimy!			-6 mood for eating insect meat -3 mood for eating cooked insect meat
Insect Meat	Loved	There is nothing more divine than the succulent, slimy flesh of an insect		Tunneler	Gives a +6 moodlet when pawns eat meals with insect meat as an ingredient, duration 1 day.
Marriage Name	Always Man's	Couples must share the man's name.		Male supremacy	Couples always take man's name
	Usually Man's	Most couples share the man's name			As random, but 95% to not consider taking woman's name and 75% to not consider keeping names
	Random	Couples randomly choose whether to share a name, and which name to share.			Couples randomly select between taking man's, woman's, or keeping names
	Keep Names	Both partners keep their names upon marriage.	Not Collectivist		Couples always keep their names
	Usually Woman's	Most couples share the woman's name			As random, but 95% to not consider taking man's name and 75% to not consider keeping names
	Always Woman's	Couples must share the woman's name.		Female supremacy	Couples always take woman's name
Female Clothing	Fully nude	Women must be entirely nude at all times. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable.		Male supremacy Nudism	-4 mood when wearing any clothing and for 0.5 days after removing it -5 opinion for wearing clothes
	Pants at most	Women should cover their groin, but may not cover anything else. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable.		Nudism	-4 mood when wearing any clothing except pants and for 0.5 days after removing it -4 mood for not covering groin -5 opinion for wearing clothes other than pants -10 opinion for uncovered groin
	No rules	A woman may display or cover any part of her body.		Individualist
	Pants	Women must cover their groin. The rest of the body may be covered, or not.			-4 mood for not covering groin -10 opinion for uncovered groin
	Pants and shirt	Women must cover their groin and chest. The rest of the body may be covered, or not.			-4 mood for not covering groin or chest -10 opinion for uncovered groin or chest
	Pants, shirt, and hat	Women must cover their entire body and hair. The face may be covered, or not.		Male supremacy	-4 mood for not covering groin, chest, or hair -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, or hair
	Fully covered	Women must cover their entire body, including their hair and face.		Male supremacy	-4 mood for not covering groin, chest, hair, or face -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, hair, or face
Male Clothing	Fully nude	Men must be entirely nude at all times. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable.		Female supremacy Nudism	-4 mood when wearing any clothing and for 0.5 days after removing it -5 opinion for wearing clothes
	Pants at most	Men should cover their groin, but may not cover anything else. Utility items like shields belts or jump packs are acceptable.		Nudism	-4 mood when wearing any clothing except pants and for 0.5 days after removing it -4 mood for not covering groin -5 opinion for wearing clothes other than pants -10 opinion for uncovered groin
	No rules	A man may display or cover any part of his body.		Individualist
	Pants	Men must cover their groin. The rest of the body may be covered, or not.			-4 mood for not covering groin -10 opinion for uncovered groin
	Pants and shirt	Men must cover their groin and chest. The rest of the body may be covered, or not.			-4 mood for not covering groin or chest -10 opinion for uncovered groin or chest
	Pants, shirt, and hat	Men must cover their entire body and hair. The face may be covered, or not.		Female supremacy	-4 mood for not covering groin, chest, or hair -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, or hair
	Fully covered	Men must cover their entire body, including their hair and face.		Female supremacy	-4 mood for not covering groin, chest, hair, or face -10 opinion for uncovered groin, chest, hair, or face
Organ use	Totally abhorrent	Any harvesting, trading, or installing natural organs is an abhorrent evil.		Flesh purity	-30 mood for harvesting someone's organ -10 mood for organ harvested in the colony -30 mood for trading an organ -5 mood for organ traded in the colony -30 mood for installing an organ -4 mood for organ installed in the colony -30 opinion for harvesting an organ -30 opinion for trading an organ -15 opinion for installing an organ
	No harvest or sell	Harvesting organs is a horrible thing. Selling any natural organ is pretty bad too. However, it's okay to buy and install them.		Flesh purity	-15 mood for harvesting someone's organ -5 mood for organ harvested in the colony -8 mood for selling an organ -2 mood for organ sold in the colony -20 opinion for harvesting an organ -10 opinion for selling an organ
	No harvest	Harvesting organs is a horrible thing. However, it's okay to buy, install, or sell them.		Cannibal Raider Collectivist	-15 mood for harvesting someone's organ -5 mood for organ harvested in the colony -20 opinion for harvesting an organ
	Acceptable	It's okay to harvest, buy, install, or sell organs.		Cannibal Raider Collectivist
Physical Love	Free	Physical intimacy is a natural part of life, with any partner, married or not.		Individualist
	Prohibited	The physical act of lust is always vile, disgusting, and wrong.		Flesh purity Pain is virtue	Pawns will not share beds -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' -20 opinion for lovin'
	Horrible	The physical act of lust is vile, though within marriage it is necessary.		Flesh purity Pain is virtue	Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -20 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse -5 mood for 1 day for lovin' with spouse -5 opinion for lovin' with spouse
	Spouse only (strict)	To make love with another outside of marriage is deeply immoral.			Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -30 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -20 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
	Spouse only (moderate)	To make love with another outside of marriage is wrong.			Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -15 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -10 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
	Spouse only (mild)	Though it's understandable to make love with another outside of marriage, it's not a good thing.			Pawns will not share beds with non-spouses -5 mood for 1 day for lovin' with non-spouse -5 opinion for lovin' with non-spouse
	Free and approved	The physical act of love is a noble thing, no matter who does it with whom.	Not flesh purity	Individualist	+5 opinion for loving'
Research	Not allowed	To research technology is an immoral act. It is not to be done.			Prohibition: Pawns are unwilling to research.
	Extremely slow	Research isn't a worthwhile activity at all. Why try hard at it?			Stats: Research Speed: ×0.25
	Very slow	Research work is unworthy of serious respect. Better not to be seen trying hard at it.			Stats: Research Speed: ×0.50
	Slow	Research work just isn't particularly meaningful. Why try hard at it?			Stats: Research Speed: ×0.75
	Normal	Research is a worthwhile form of work that the community needs.			Stats: Research Speed: ×1.00
	Fast	Research is an especially virtuous activity.			Stats: Research Speed: ×1.25
	Very fast	Research is among the most meaningful acts a person can perform.			Stats: Research Speed: ×1.50
Scarification	Extreme	Every person ought to bear the ritual scars - all over.	Pain is virtue		+6 mood for getting scarified +3 mood for having 5 scars -3 mood for having fewer than 5 scars +10 opinion for having 5 scars -5 opinion for having 1-4 scars -10 opinion for having no scars
	Heavy	Every person ought to bear the ritual scars - many of them.	Pain is virtue		+5 mood for getting scarified +2 mood for having 3 scars -2 mood for having fewer than 3 scars +5 opinion for having 3 scars -3 opinion for having 1-2 scars -5 opinion for having no scars
	Minor	Every person ought to bear a ritual scar.	Pain is virtue		+3 mood for getting scarified +1 mood for having a scar -1 mood for having no scars +3 opinion for having a scar -3 opinion for having no scars
	Horrible	Scarifying people for ideoligious reasons is horrible.	Not Pain is virtue		-2 mood for scarification ceremony in the colony
Skullspike	Desired	A skull on a spike symbolizes our superiority.		Pain is virtue Supremacist Raider	Adds a mood increase of +1 for 1-3 skullspikes, +2 for 4-8 skullspikes, and +3 for 9+ skullspikes. Mood effects negated by the Masochist trait.
Skullspike	Disapproved	Putting skulls on spikes is a barbaric practice.	Not Pain is virtue Not Supremacist Not Raider		Adds a mood malus of −1 for 1-3 skullspikes, −2 for 4-8 skullspikes, and −3 for 9+ skullspikes. Mood effects negated by the Masochist trait.
Slavery	Abhorrent	Owning or trading human beings is deeply evil.	Not raider	Guilty Individualist	Prohibitions: Pawns will not sell pawns into slavery Pawns will not enslave prisoners Mood: -10 <abbr title="We solve^[sic] someone into slavery. It was an abhorrent, barbaric act.">Slave sold mood for 6 days (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. -3 Slaves in colony mood, per slave. Does not apply to quest lodgers. Opinion: −20 for selling a pawn into slavery −20 opinion for enslaving a pawn
	Horrible	Owning or trading human beings is a horrible thing.	Not raider	Guilty Individualist	Mood: -2 Slaves in colony mood, per slave. Does not apply to quest lodgers. -10 Sold slave mood for 6 days -10 Enslaved prisoner mood for 6 days (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) -3 Slave sold mood for 6 days (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. -3 Prisoner enslaved mood for 6 days (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. Opinion: −10 for selling a pawn into slavery −10 opinion for enslaving a pawn
	Disapproved	Slavery is part of life, though it is extremely distasteful.	Not raider	Guilty Individualist	Mood: -1 Slaves in colony mood, per slave. Does not apply to quest lodgers. -5 Sold slave mood for 6 days -5 Enslaved prisoner mood for 6 days (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) -2 Slave sold mood for 6 days (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. -2 Prisoner enslaved mood for 6 days (Colony wide). Does not apply to quest lodgers. Opinion: −5 for selling a pawn into slavery −5 opinion for enslaving a pawn
	Acceptable	Slavery is a normal, unremarkable part of life.			No mood or opinion effects for enslaving, buying, or selling slaves. Faction will accept slaves when being traded with.
	Honorable	One who owns and trades slaves should be honored and respected.	Not guilty Not individualist	Supremacist Collectivist Pain is virtue	Mood: +1 Slaves in colony mood, per slave -2 No slaves in colony mood, if Low expectations or higher +4 Sold slave mood for 6 days +4 Enslaved prisoner mood for 6 days (Only if they weren't previously enslaved) +2 Slave sold mood for 6 days (Colony wide) +2 Prisoner enslaved mood for 6 days (Colony wide) Opinion: +10 for selling a pawn into slavery +10 opinion for enslaving a pawn Faction will accept slaves when being traded with.
Women's spouses	One only	Women may have one spouse only.
	Two or fewer	Women may have up to two spouses.		Female supremacy
	Three or fewer	Women may have up to three spouses.		Female supremacy
	Four or fewer	Women may have up to four spouses.		Female supremacy
	Unlimited	Women may have as many spouses as they like.		Female supremacy
Men's spouses	One only	Men may have one spouse only.
	Two or fewer	Men may have up to two spouses.		Male supremacy
	Three or fewer	Men may have up to three spouses.		Male supremacy
	Four or fewer	Men may have up to four spouses.		Male supremacy
	Unlimited	Men may have as many spouses as they like.		Male supremacy

Optional[edit]

These precepts can be added through memes or by player choice.

Issue	Precept	Description	Requirement	Associated	Effects
Slaughtering animals	Prohibited	Slaughtering animals is absolutely prohibited.		Animal personhood Nature primacy	Prohibitions: Slaughter animal Mood: -4 Animal slaughtered mood for 6 days Opinions: Slaughtered animal: −10
	Horrible	To slaughter an animal is a horrible thing.		Animal personhood Nature primacy	Mood: -15 Slaughtered animal mood for 6 days -2 Animal slaughtered mood for 6 days Opinions: Slaughtered animal: −5
	Disapproved	To slaughter an animal is an ugly thing.		Animal personhood Nature primacy	Mood: -5 Slaughtered animal mood for 6 days -1 Animal slaughtered mood for 6 days Opinions: Slaughtered animal: −3
Apostasy	Abhorrent	To leave our ideoligion after having known it is the depth of immorality.	Not Guilty	Loyalist Proselytizer	Opinions: Changed ideoligion: −30 Apostate: −10 Stats: Global Certainty Loss Factor: ×40%
	Horrible	To leave our ideoligion after having known it indicates deep moral flaws.	Not Guilty	Loyalist Proselytizer	Opinions: Changed ideoligion: −15 Apostate: −5 Stats: Global Certainty Loss Factor: ×60%
	Disapproved	To leave our ideoligion after having known it indicates character flaws.	Not Guilty	Loyalist Proselytizer	Opinions: Changed ideoligion: −8 Apostate: −3 Stats: Global Certainty Loss Factor: ×80%
Autonomous weapons	Prohibited	Allowing a machine to decide to kill is an absolutely inhuman thing to do.		Nature primacy	Cannot build Turrets Colonists gain Mood: -12 Automated weapons mood
	Horrible	Allowing a machine to decide to kill is a terrible thing.		Nature primacy	Colonists gain Mood: -8 Automated weapons mood
	Disapproved	Allowing a machine to decide to kill is an ugly thing.		Nature primacy	Colonists gain Mood: -4 Automated weapons mood
Body modification	Abhorrent	To modify the natural human body is a flagrant violation of clear moral laws.	Not Transhumanist	Flesh purity	Mood: -30 Installed enhancement mood for 6 days -18 Artificial enhancement mood for 6 days Opinion: −10 against anyone that installed a prosthetic or artificial part, −5 against anyone with a prosthetic or artificial part. These do not apply if the pawn is not a Body Modder. Xenogenes trigger this mood penalty if they are not inheritable.
	Disapproved	To modify the natural human body is an ugly, dirty act.	Not Transhumanist	Flesh purity	Mood: -5 Installed enhancement mood for 6 days -4 Artificial enhancement mood for 6 days Opinion: −5 against anyone that installed a prosthetic or artificial part, −3 against anyone with a prosthetic or artificial part. These do not apply if the pawn is not a Body Modder. Xenogenes trigger this mood penalty if they are not inheritable.
	Approved	Humans should strive to reach our full potential by improving our flawed natural bodies.	Not Flesh purity	Transhumanist	Mood: -3 No artificial enhancement mood at or above moderate expectations, nullified by Boddy purist. 1 Transhumanist modded mood for 1 artificial part. 1 Transhumanist connected mood for 2 artificial part. 2 Transhumanist enhanced mood for 3 artificial part. 2 Transhumanist synchronized mood for 4 artificial part. 3 Transhumanist integrated mood for 5 artificial part. 3 Transhumanist transformed mood for 5+ artificial part. All bonus disabled for Body Modder. −3 opinion for zero artificial parts if expectations ≥ Moderate (disabled for Body Purist) ^[Xenogenes?]
Charity	Essential	We must always be charitable to those in need. To refuse one would be an inhuman act, no matter the circumstances.	Not supremacist Not pain is virtue	Guilty	-8 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest^{[Optional precepts 1]} -12 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +4 mood for helping on a charity quest^{[Optional precepts 1]}
	Important	It's important to be charitable to those in need. Refusing to help is a terrible act.	Not supremacist Not pain is virtue	Guilty	-4 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest^{[Optional precepts 1]} -8 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +2 mood for helping on a charity quest^{[Optional precepts 1]}
	Worthwhile	Helping those in need is a good thing. It makes the community stronger.	Not supremacist Not pain is virtue	Guilty	-2 mood for refusing to help on a charity quest^{[Optional precepts 1]} -6 mood for attacking beggars or pilgrims +1 mood for helping on a charity quest^{[Optional precepts 1]}
Drug use	Prohibited	The body should absolutely not be poisoned by chemicals. The only exception is the use of medicine in direct medical care.	Not High life	Flesh purity Collectivist	Pawns are unwilling to take or administer drugs -4 Used drug mood for 3 days -15 Administered drug mood for 3 days^{[Optional precepts 2]} −3 opinion for consuming or administering a drug, for 5 days. None of the above applies to pawns with Chemical fascination or Chemical interest
	Medical only	Poisoning the body for recreational purposes is a deeply immoral act.	Not High life	Collectivist	Pawns are unwilling to take or administer recreational drugs. -15 Used recreational drug mood for 3 days -15 Administered recreational drug mood for 3 days −5 opinion for consuming or administering a recreational drug, for 5 days. None of the above applies to pawns with Chemical fascination or Chemical interest
	Medical or social only	A drink with a smoke is fine, especially with friends, but poisoning the body with powerful chemicals is wrong.	Not High life	Collectivist	Pawns are unwilling to take or administer hard drugs. -15 Used hard drug mood for 3 days -15 Used hard drug mood for 3 days −8 opinion for consuming or administering a hard drug, for 5 days. None of the above applies to pawns with Chemical fascination or Chemical interest
	Essential	Exotic states of mind are central to a good life.	High life	High life	Stats: Drug Crop Harvest Yield: ×150% Drug Synthesis Speed: ×150% Drug Sell Price Improvement: +10% Moods (excludes Teetotalers): 3 High life mood for 0.75 days 0 High life mood for 0.25 days. An invisible state. -1 High life missing mood for 1 days -10 High life missing mood for 9 days The moods above are scaled linearly based on the time since last non-medical drug ingested. First a +3 mood that last 0.75 days, decaying to 0 over the course the following 0.25 days. At 2 days since last consumption, first mood penalty applies. This penalty will increase by −1 each day without further consumption, reaching the maximum of −10 at 11 days.
Combat in darkness	Preferred	We fight better in the dark.	Not blindsight	Darkness	Stats: Shooting Accuracy: Outdoors Dark and Indoors Dark: +25% Outdoors Lit and Indoors Lit: −20% Melee Dodge Chance: Outdoors Night and Indoors Dark: +10% Outdoors Day and Indoors Lit: −10% Melee Hit Chance: Outdoors Dark and Indoors Dark: +10% Outdoors Lit and Indoors Lit: −10%
Cutting trees	Prohibited	To violate the forest by cutting down a tree is a deeply abhorrent act and should never be done.	Not Human primacy	Nature primacy	Disables logging camps. Pawns will not cut trees -4 mood for 3 days for a tree cut -4 mood for 3 days for an uprooted tree dying -10 opinion for cutting a tree
	Horrible	To cut down a tree is a horrible act.	Not Human primacy	Nature primacy	Disables logging camps. -10 mood for 3 days for cutting a tree -2 mood for 3 days for a tree cut -2 mood for 3 days for an uprooted tree dying -5 opinion for cutting a tree
	Disapproved	To cut down a tree is a distasteful thing to do.	Not Human primacy	Nature primacy	Disables logging camps. -5 mood for 3 days for cutting a tree -1 mood for 3 days for a tree cut -1 mood for 3 days for an uprooted tree dying -3 opinion for cutting a tree
Killing innocent animals	Abhorrent	To kill an innocent animal is a horrifically inhuman act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation.	Not human primacy	Nature primacy Animal personhood	Disables hunting camps Pawns will not attack innocent animals -4 mood for 6 days if innocent animal is killed -15 opinion for killing innocent animal
	Horrible	To kill an innocent animal is a horrible act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation.	Not human primacy	Nature primacy Animal personhood	Disables hunting camps -15 mood for killing an innocent animal -2 mood for 6 days if innocent animal is killed -10 opinion for killing innocent animal
	Disapproved	To kill an innocent animal is an ugly act. Innocent animals are those who are not attacking, or who were only driven to attack by human provocation.	Not human primacy	Nature primacy Animal personhood	Disables hunting camps -5 mood for killing an innocent animal -1 mood for 6 days if innocent animal is killed -5 opinion for killing innocent animal
Lighting	Darklight preferred	Normal lights are too bright. Darklights are better.	Not blindsight	Darkness	+4 mood with Darklight -4 mood in dim light -8 mood in bright light. No modifier for Darkness. Surgery penalty without Darklight. Disables low-light move speed penalties Disables low-light global work speed penalties
Meat eating	Abhorrent	Eating meat of any kind is deeply evil.	Not human primacy	Animal personhood Flesh purity	Disables hunting camps -24 mood for 1 day for eating meat -15 opinion for eating meat
	Horrible	Eating meat of any kind is a horrible act.	Not human primacy	Animal personhood Flesh purity	Disables hunting camps -12 mood for 1 day for eating meat -10 opinion for eating meat
	Disapproved	Eating meat of any kind should be avoided.	Not human primacy	Animal personhood Flesh purity	Disables hunting camps -4 mood for 1 day for eating meat -5 opinion for eating meat
	Mildly required	Every meal ought to have meat.	Not human primacy	Animal personhood (but conflicts) Flesh purity	Disables farming camps -4 mood for 1 day for eating food without meat -5 opinion for eating food without meat
	Seriously required	Every meal must have meat. Eggs, milk, and processed food are okay as well.	Not human primacy	Animal personhood (but conflicts) Flesh purity	Disables farming camps -10 mood for 1 day for eating food without meat -10 opinion for eating food without meat
	Strictly required	If a meal doesn't have meat, the person who eats it must be morally deficient. Eggs, milk, and processed foods are fine.	Not human primacy	Animal personhood (but conflicts) Flesh purity	Disables farming camps -16 mood for 1 day for eating food without meat -15 opinion for eating food without meat
Mining	Prohibited	Raping the natural earth with mining tools is a horrifically evil act.	Not human primacy Not tunneler	Nature primacy	Disables mining camps Pawns will not mine -4 Mined mood for 2 days -40 Destroyed natural wall mood for 2 days −15 opinion for mining a block, for 4 days.
	Horrible	Violating the natural earth with mining tools is a horrible act.	Not human primacy Not tunneler	Nature primacy	Disables mining camps -20 Mined mood for 2 days -2 Mined mood for 2 days -20 Destroyed natural wall mood for 2 days −10 opinion for mining a block, for 2 days.
	Disapproved	Mining into the natural earth is an ugly act.	Not human primacy Not tunneler	Nature primacy	Disables mining camps -3 Mined mood for 2 days -1 Mined mood for 2 days -3 Destroyed natural wall mood for 2 days −5 opinion for mining a block, for 2 days.
Raiding	Respected	We don't work like common laborers, we take from the weak as the strong should. Failing to do so is a mark of shame.			Mood: +3 mood for 5 days for participating in a raid +6 mood for a raid less than 25 days ago −6 mood for a raid more than 25 days ago Stats: Global Work Speed −8%
Raiding	Required	We don't work like common laborers, we take from the weak as the strong should. Failing to do so is a tremendous shame.			Mood: +6 mood for 5 days for participating in a raid +12 mood for a raid less than 25 days ago −12 mood for a raid more than 25 days ago Stats: Global Work Speed −16%
Trees	Desired	It's essential to live surrounded by beautiful trees.		Tree connection	Gives a thought, scaling from -5 to +9 for having (or not having) many trees on the map Gives a thought, scaling from 0 to -20 for the number of trees chopped in the last quadrum
Biosculpting	Despised	Biosculpter pods violate the purity human flesh and should never be used.	Not Transhumanist		Mood: -8 Used biosculpter pod mood for 12 days after using biosculpter pod.
Biosculpting	Accelerated	All biosculpting cycles take half the usual time.	Transhumanist	Transhumanist	All biosculpting cycles take half the usual time.
Growth vats	Prohibited	Growth vats rob children of their childhood.			Prohibitions: Build growth vat Mood: -3 Growth vat mood -3 My child is in a growth vat mood. Nullifying trait: Psychopath 1 Child not in growth vat mood
Growth vats	Essential	We have the technology for safer childbirth and faster childhoods. Believers will develop faster in growth vats but will be unhappy if their children are not in a vat.		Transhumanist	Mood: -5 Childbirth is a terrifying thought. We should have vats to safely grow our children.">Natural pregnancy mood. Minimum expectations: Moderate -2 I don't feel safe with my child running around. They should be growing safely in a vat.">Child not in growth vat mood. Minimum expectations: Moderate Stats: Growth Vat Occupant Speed: ×130% (only to pawns with the ideoligion; embryos / babies are not boosted)
Bloodfeeders	Revered	Bloodfeeders should be worshipped. Believers will be happy if there is a bloodfeeder in the colony and will not mind being fed upon.			Mood: -2 Bloodfeeder died mood for 10 days (Colony wide) when a bloodfeeder dies.^{[Any faction?]}. +4 Revered bloodfeeder mood for being a bloodfeeder. -2 No bloodfeeders mood (Colony wide) for having no bloodfeeders in the colony. -1 No bloodfeeder master mood (Colony wide) for having bloodfeeders in the colony, but not as the leader. +2 Bloodfeeder master mood (Colony wide) for having A bloodfeeder as the leader. Nullifies -5 Fed on by <NAME> mood for 5 days^[Stacking?] Opinions: +20 for being a Bloodfeeder
Bloodfeeders	Reviled	Anyone who drinks blood to survive is a monster.			Mood: +5 Bloodfeeder died mood for 10 days (Colony wide) when a bloodfeeder dies. -12 Bloodfeeder self hatred mood for being a bloodfeeder. -8 Bloodfeeder among us mood (Colony wide) for having a bloodfeeder in the colony. Opinions: −40 for being a Bloodfeeder
Child labor	Encouraged	Children build character through work. It's important for everyone to contribute.		Collectivist	Mood: -3 Children assigned recreation mood. Adults only. Stats: Global Work Speed: +20% (Children only)
Child labor	Disapproved	Childhood is sacred. We should let kids be kids.		Individualist	Mood: -3 Children assigned work mood. Adults only. Stats: Learning Rate Factor: +20% (Children only)
Mechanoid labor	Enhanced	Why should we work when we have machines?			Stats: Global Work Speed: −8% Mech Work Speed Offset: +20%
Psychic rituals	Abhorrent	Psychic rituals are utterly evil.			Prohibitions: Participate in psychic ritual Mood: Psychic ritual performed: −4 Involved in psychic ritual: −12 Opinions: Involved in psychic ritual: −20
	Disapproved	Psychic rituals should be avoided when possible.			Mood: -2 Psychic ritual performed mood -6 Involved in psychic ritual mood Opinions: Involved in psychic ritual: −10 Stats: Psychic Ritual Quality Offset: −10%
	Exalted	Connecting with psychic flows brings us closer to truth.		Ritualist	Mood: +3 Involved in psychic ritual mood. -3 No psychic ritual for 6 days (Min expectations: High) mood. Opinions: Involved in psychic ritual: +10 Stats: Psychic Ritual Quality Offset: +10%
Void study	Very inefficient	All this void nonsense is superstition. Let's focus on reality.			Stats: Study Efficiency: ×50%
	Inefficient	Trying to understand the unknowable is pointless. We should focus more on meaningful activities.			Stats: Study Efficiency: ×75%
	Efficient	The void is a true mystery that deserves to be studied.			Stats: Study Efficiency: ×125%
	Very efficient	The void is the ultimate truth.		Ritualist	Stats: Study Efficiency: ×150%
Inhumanizing	Required	Human morality and feeling are a distraction. We must leave humanity behind. Mental breaks will cause followers to become inhumanized.		Inhuman	Mood: -8 Human shame mood. Only if not inhumanized. +8 Void pleasure mood. Only if inhumanized. Mental breaks: Humanity break

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Charity quest is one marked as such in the quest log, and includes: beggars, relic pilgrims, joining wanderer, crashing shuttle, pod crash refugee, refugees, chased noble, and joining wanderer in danger
↑ As pawns with this precept are unwilling to administer drugs, this won't appear on normal gameplay.

Meme-specific[edit]

These issues and their precepts can only be added by having a specific meme, and cannot be removed as long as the meme is present.

Issue	Precept	Description	Meme	Effects
Age reversal	Demanded	Why get old? One must have a once-yearly age reversal treatment in the biosculpter pod.	Transhumanist	Mood: -4 Harmful aging mood, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year. -7 Terrible aging mood, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year and 15 days. -10 Horrific aging mood, if a pawn with at least high expectations and a biological age of 25 didn't have age reversal in the last year and 30 days. +3 Received age reversal mood for 4 days after age reversal. Notes: Initial colonists, newly generated pawns (due to events, quests, raids, etc.), as well as pawns after changing map due to Archonexus quest have a 20 to 40 day grace period before they start demanding age reversal (it will replace their age reversal demanded date, even if it would come after that period). Whenever a pawn's faction or ideology change they'll get a 15-20 day grace period before they start demanding age reversal (unless their next age reversal demanded date will come after that period).
Animal connection	Strong	We have a strong connection to our animal friends	Animal personhood	2x Tame Animal Chance 2x Animal Bonding Chance
Blind psysense	Strong	Our blind have special ways of connecting with the psychic aether	Blindsight	Stats: Psychic Sensitivity: +30% for blind pawns.
Bonding	Disapproved	To emotionally bond with a lower being is a shameful act	Human primacy	Disables animal bonding event for pawns with ideology. Does not disable pre-existing bonds or disable their thoughts.
Comfort	Ignored	We should pay no attention to comfort	Pain Is Virtue	Disables comfort need, and comfort-related thoughts, both positive and negative
Eclipse	Beautiful	Eclipses are a beautiful respite from the blinding sunlight.	Darkness unless blindsight	+5 mood for seeing an eclipse
Gauranlen connection	Strong	We have a special connection with the Gauranlen trees. The trees refocus production easily under our influence, and we are not satisfied unless we have that connection.	Tree connection	Mood: +3 Gauranlen connection mood when connected to Gauranlen tree. -0 Want Gauranlen connection mood, at Very Low expectations. -1 Want Gauranlen connection mood, at Low expectations. -2 Want Gauranlen connection mood, at Moderate expectations. -4 Want Gauranlen connection mood, at High expectations. -6 Want Gauranlen connection mood, at Sky High expectations. Stats: Pruning speed: +25%
Mining yield	High	Mining is so important that we do it with great focus and respect, and we get more resources because of that.	Tunneler	Stats: Mining yield: +10%
Neural supercharge	Preferred	Having a neural supercharge is the new standard. Without it, you're obsolete.	Transhumanist	Mood: -6 Want neural supercharge mood whenever 2+^{[Verify time]} days have passed since neural supercharging, assuming Moderate expectations or higher.
Pain	Idealized	To experience nerve-singing pain is a mark of morality.	Pain is virtue Guilty	Mood: +3 Minor pain mood, pain between 1% and 14% inclusive. Replaces default −5 +5 Serious pain mood, pain between 15% and 39% inclusive. Replaces default −10 +7 Intense pain mood, pain between 40% and 79% inclusive. Replaces default −15 +9 Mind-shattering pain mood, pain of 80%+. Replaces default −20 Note: These thoughts are replaced by the Masochist specific thoughts for pawns with that trait, and with the default values for Wimps.
Proselytizing	Occasional	Those who know the truth should try to bring it to others, when it seems appropriate.	Proselytizer	Stats: Social chat conversion attempt frequency: ×300 Development points: +1 each pawn converted to the ideoligion.^[Verify] +5 for a successful relic hunt.^{[Final Quest only?]}^[Verify] +2 for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.^[Verify]
	Sometimes	Those who know the truth should bring it to others at every opportunity.	Proselytizer	Stats: Social chat conversion attempt frequency: ×500 Development points: +1 each pawn converted to the ideoligion.^[Verify] +5 for a successful relic hunt.^{[Final Quest only?]}^[Verify] +2 for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.^[Verify]
	Frequent	Those who know the truth have a duty to always spread it and drive out other beliefs.	Proselytizer	Stats: Social chat conversion attempt frequency: ×700 Development points: +1 each pawn converted to the ideoligion.^[Verify] +5 for a successful relic hunt.^{[Final Quest only?]}^[Verify] +2 for each successful Reliquary Pilgrims quest.^[Verify]
Ranching	Central	We must raise and consume many large animals, and we must not eat plants.	Rancher	Stats: Plant Work Speed: ×70% Tame Animal Chance: ×120% Animal Gather Yield: ×120% Butchery Efficiency: ×120% Animals Learning Factor: ×200%. Animal Products Price Improvement: +10%.^[Mechanics?] Affects meat, leather and wool of all types, including Human. Eggs, milk, insect jelly, and live animals are not affected. Mood: −3/−2/−1/+1/+2/+3 mood based on total animal body size per colonist,^{[What ratios?]}^{[Colonist only?]} if Low expectations or higher. Does not apply to quest lodgers. -4 Sowed human food plant mood for 2 days if Low expectations or higher.^{[Which plants?]}^{[Sow only?]} Does not apply to quest lodgers. Development points: +2 for each successful Animal hospitality quest.
Rough living	Welcomed	We don't need to separate ourselves from the roughness of nature.	Tree connection Pain Is Virtue	Nullifies: -3 Ate without table mood for 1 days -4 Slept outside mood for 1 days -4 Slept on ground mood for 1 days -3 Soaking wet mood for 0.1 days
Slab bed	Preferred	The right way to sleep is on a slab bed.	Pain is virtue	Makes colonists prefer slab beds, and gives a +2 thought when they sleep in slab beds.
Sleep accelerator	Preferred	One should always use a sleep accelerator. Slow-sleeping is just foolishly wasting your potential.	Transhumanist	+3 mood for 1 day when using sleep accelerator
Small spaces	Don't care	There's nothing bothersome about being in tight quarters.	Tunneler	Disables negative thoughts about small spaces. Positive thoughts about spacious areas are unaffected.
Temperature	Tough	Extreme temperatures don't bother us as much.	Tree connection Pain is virtue	Nullifies: -4 Slept in the cold mood for 1 days -4 Slept in the heat mood for 1 days Note: It doesn't appear to affect comfortable temperatures or the related hypothermia/heatstroke tolerances. It is only referenced for the above moodlets
Work drive	Tripled	The duration of the leader's work drive ability is tripled.	Collectivist	3x Work Drive Duration (from 3 days to 9 days)

Roles[edit]

Main article: Roles

Roles are positions available to pawns that grant them both special benefits and drawbacks. Every ideoligion has at least two roles: Leader and Moral guide. There can be only 1 leader globally, and 1 moral guide per ideoligion.

Additionally, each ideoligion grants up to 2 types of specialists; a role that grants large bonuses and abilities related to a specific field in exchange of inability of doing one or more types of work. This limitation only applies to the type of specialization, not the total number of specialists.

Name	Required Memes	Disabled Work Types	Abilities
Shooting Specialist	Raider Supremacist	Crafting Cooking Plantwork Mining Constructing	Marksman Command
Animals Specialist	Animal personhood Rancher	Crafting Cooking Plantwork Mining Constructing	Animal Calm
Medical Specialist	Flesh purity Blindsight	Violent	Immunity Drive
Melee Specialist	Raider Supremacist	Crafting Cooking Plantwork Mining Constructing Hunting Shooting	Berserk Trance

Name	Required Memes	Disabled Work Types	Abilities
Mining Specialist	Darkness Tunneler	Animals Crafting Cooking Plantwork Constructing	Mining Command
Plants Specialist	High life Nature primacy Tree connection	Animals Crafting Cooking Constructing Mining	Farming Command
Production Specialist	Human primacy	Dumb labor Animals Cooking Plantwork Mining	Production Command
Research Specialist	Transhumanist	Dumb labor Animals Cooking Plantwork Mining	Research Command

Rituals[edit]

Main article: Rituals

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Ritual

Factors

Outcomes

Notes

Funeral

Participant count (10): +70%
Moral guide present: +30%

5% Terrible: -3
15% Lackluster: -1
60% Good: +5
20% Heartwarming: +8

If there is no corpse in the grave or sarcophagus, the ritual quality is only increased by 20% by the presence of the moral guide, and only by 60% by a full participant count.

Social festival

Participant count (10): +25%
Leader present: +25%
Started at altar: +20%
Lectern used: +20%
Seats for everyone: +20%

5% Terrible: -3
15% Boring: -1
60% Fun: +5
20% Unforgettable: +8

Dance party

Participant count (10): +30%
Started at lightball: +20%
Active loudspeakers (6): +30%
Room Impressiveness (120): +20%

5% Terrible: -3
15% Boring: -1
60% Fun: +8
20% Unforgettable: +16

If the party is fun or unforgettable, there is a chance^{[Probability?]} that all participants will get +20% Global Work Speed for 24h. Only available to non-tribals.

Drum party

Participant count (10): +30%
Started at campfire: 20%
Drums (6): +30%
Room Impressiveness (120): +20%

5% Terrible: -3
15% Boring: -1
60% Fun: +8
20% Unforgettable: +16

If the party is fun or unforgettable, there is a chance^{[Probability?]} that all participants will get +20% Global Work Speed for 24h. Only available to tribals.

Skylantern festival

Participant count (10): +100%

5% Terrible: -3
15% Unimpressive: -1
60% Beautiful: +6
20% Unforgettable: +10

Each participant makes a skylantern out of

4 wood. If the festival is beautiful or unforgettable, friendly visitors might see them and arrive with a gift.^{[Probability?]}

Christmas tree

Symbol burning

Smokeleaf circle

Cannibal feast

Participant count (10): +80%
Room Impressiveness (120): +20%

5% Terrible: -3
15% Boring: -1
60% Fun: +5
20% Unforgettable: +8

Destroys the ritual target.

Scarification

Participant count (10): +25%
Moral guide present: +20%
Started at altar: +20%
Lectern used: +15%
Seats for everyone: +20%

5% Terrible: -2
15% Boring: -1
60% Satisfying: +1
20% Spectacular: +3

Scarifies the subject. Only available with the Pain is Virtue meme.

Blinding ceremony

Participant count (10): +25%
Moral guide present: +20%
Started at altar: +20%
Lectern used: +15%
Seats for everyone: +20%

5% Terrible: -2
15% Boring: -1
60% Satisfying: +1
20% Spectacular: +3

Blinds the subject. If the ceremony is satisfying or spectacular, the blinded person may get a psylink upgrade or unlock a new psychic power.^{[Probability?]} Only available with the Blindsight meme.

Animal sacrifice

Participant count (10): +25%
Moral guide present: +25%
Started at altar: +20%
Lectern used: +15%
Seats for everyone: +15%

5% Terrible: -3
15% Boring: -1
60% Satisfying: +5
20% Spectacular: +8

If the sacrifice is satisfying or spectacular, there is a 5% (satisfying) or 10% (spectacular) chance that a random participant gains an inspiration. Only available with the Human Primacy meme.

Gladiator duel

Participant count (10): +20%
Leader present: +20%
Duelist dies: +100%
Weapon used: +60%

5% Terrible: -3
15% Boring: -1
60% Good: +5
20% Unforgettable: +8

The two necessary escorts count towards the participant count. Spectators gain 1000 melee experience, gain a mood boost^{[Separate from the usual mood boost?]}, and fill their recreation bars.^[Verify] The duelists also gain the mood effect from ritual quality. Duelists must be capable of violence. Only available with the Pain is Virtue, Cannibal, Supremacist, or Raider memes.

Prisoner execution

Participant count (10): +80%
Started at altar: +20%

15% Awkward: -1
65% Satisfying: +6
20% Spectacular: +8

Participating slaves are fully suppressed. Can be performed by all ideologions.

Leader speech

Participant count (10): +40%
Room impressiveness (120): +20
Leader's Social Impact (150%): +40%

5% Terrible: -8
15% Uninspiring: -4
60% Encouraging: +5
20% Inspirational: +8

The speech quality will also affect the listeners' opinions of the leader, with a terrible speech resulting in a -30 opinion, an uninspiring speech resulting in a -15 opinion, an encouraging speech in a +20 opinion, and an inspirational speech in a +40 opinion.

Trial

Participant count (20): +60%
Leader's Negotiation Ability * 0.25
Defendant's Negotiation Ability * -0.25

50% Exonerated
50% Convicted

If the defendant is convicted, they are considered guilty for 15 days for the purpose of arrest, banishment, and executions. If the defendant has a mental break during the trial, their Negotiation Ability is effectively set to 0.

Conversion ritual

Participant count (10): +40%
Room impressiveness (120): +20%
Moral guide's Social Impact (150%): +30%
Convertee's Expectations (Very Low): +10%, (Sky High): -30%

5% Terrible
15% Ineffective
60% Effective: +3
20% Masterful: +6

The convertee's certainty is offset by an amount depending on ritual quality: terrible: +20%; ineffective: +12%; effective: -30%; masterful: -100%.

Tree connection

Participant count (10): +100%

The connector will start with 25-45% connection strength, depending on ritual quality.

Bestowing Ceremony

Participant count (24): +60%
Room Impressiveness (170): +40%

Bonus mood for 6 days:
5% Terrible: -3
15% Unimpressive: -1
60% Honorable: +3
20% Grandiose: +6

Bonus honor based on number of gathered spectators and room impressiveness. The bonus does not depend on outcome. Provides 1 honor above 30% ritual quality, 2 above 60% and 3 above 90% quality.
Requires New title's ceremony quest to start.

Throne Speech

Participant count (10): +40%
Organizer's social impact(150%): +40%^[Verify]
Room Impressiveness (120): +20%

Bonus mood for 8 days:
5% Terrible: -8
15% Uninspiring: -4
60% Encouraging: +5
20% Inspirational: +10

If the speech is inspiring, participants may acquire Inspirations
The speech quality will also affect the listeners' opinions of the speaker in the same way as a leader speech, up to +40 opinion at inspirational.
10 days cooldown on Begin Throne Speech ability.
Expected ritual duration: 2 hours

Child birth

Loved one present: +5%
Mother's age (peaks at 20-30): +50%
Doctor's medicine skill (20): +25%
Indoors: +5%
Room cleanliness (0.6): +10%
Bed health effects (5): +5%

2.5% Stillborn
7.5% Sick
90% Healthy

There is a chance the mother will die during birth: 20% at 0% quality, 5% at 20% quality and 0% above 90% quality. This is independent of the stillbirth chance.
A successful birth gives the mother a +8 [name] was born healthy thought for 15 days, while a stillbirth gives her a −15 Stillbirth thought for 10 days.

See Reproduction#Quality and Reproduction#Outcomes for detail

Relics[edit]

Main article: Relic

Relics are objects revered by your ideoligion. To obtain them you need to go through a series of quests. If you take control of them, they give various boni to your colony. When placed in a Reliquary, pilgrims of your ideoligion will visit your colony to pay reverence to the relic. Mood penalty for lost or destroyed

Buildings[edit]

Ideoligions can add special statue-like buildings that will be required when there are 3 or more pawns of the ideoligion in your faction and their expectations reach moderate or higher. These buildings must be placed in a room of at least 25 area, and must not contain beds or workstations. The larger building will also require 4 columns to be in the room. Both buildings may be placed in the same room. Placing the buildings in a room which doesn't meet the requirements will give a "[building name] disrespected" negative moodlet.

Weapon preferences[edit]

Ideoligion can have one or several pairs of noble and despised weapons types. Weapon pairs can't be combined if they overlap.

Wielding a noble weapon grants +3 mood while wielding a despised one grants -5.

Killing any pawn^[Verify] with a noble weapon grants +3 mood for 1 day^{[Thought Template]} while using a despised one to attack anything - including objects - grants -5 for 2 days.^{[Thought Template]}

Pair	First group	Second group
Melee / Ranged	All melee weapons, including beer and wood	All ranged weapons, including grenades
Melee piercer / Melee blunt	Thrumbo horn, Elephant tusk, Breach axe, Gladius, Longsword, Knife, Ikwa, Spear, Persona monosword, Monosword, Plasmasword, Persona plasmasword	Beer, Wood, Mace, Club, Persona zeushammer, Axe, Warhammer, Zeushammer, Eltex staff
Long shots / Short shots	Bolt-action rifle, Sniper rifle	Machine pistol, Pump shotgun, Chain shotgun, Heavy SMG
Ranged heavy / Ranged light	Incendiary launcher, Smoke launcher, EMP launcher, Heavy SMG, LMG, Sniper rifle, Minigun, Triple rocket launcher, Greatbow, Charge lance	Revolver, Autopistol, Machine pistol, Short bow, Recurve bow, Charge rifle
Neolithic / Ultratech	Wood, Club, Knife, Ikwa, Spear, Short bow, Pila, Recurve bow, Greatbow	Persona monosword, Persona zeushammer, Persona plasmasword, Monosword, Zeushammer, Plasmasword, Eltex staff

Apparel preferences[edit]

Some kinds^{[Detail needed]} of apparel can be set as preferred. The player can set any of these pieces to be desired for men, women, or both, and can choose between a relaxed and strong desire. Multiple kinds^[Cap?] of apparel can be chosen.

Pawns that are wearing all of their desired apparel will gain a small mood bonus of +1 for a relaxed desire, and +2 for a strong desire. There is no difference in the mood bonus for having multiple pieces of desired apparel in the ideology, the bonus is only for wearing all of their desired apparel. Unlike role-specific apparel, there is no mood penalty for not wearing desired apparel.

Pawns that have desired apparel may spawn wearing it. The criteria for this are not fully understood, but pawnkinds that do not spawn with apparel that occupies the coverage and layer of the item preferred by the ideoligion appear to always spawn with the item. If the pawnkind does have conflicting apparel that may, or is required to, spawn, then a portion of those pawnkinds will spawn with the apparel. This can lead to knock-on effects, such as some Empire Cataphracts spawning with hats in place of their helmets making them weaker in combat. Note that this also applies to colonist spawns, including at game start. In any case, it is unknown if this is limited by the apparel value limits imposed on some pawnkinds.

Ideoligions have an ideoligion color. Pawns gain a gain a +1 mood buff if more than 60% of a colonist's apparel is their favorite color or the color of their ideoligion. If their favorite color and their ideoligion's color are the same, they will gain both mood buffs for a total of +2. For a full list of valid apparel color options, see the Dye page.

The color of the ideoligion can be set at generation, while a pawn's favorite color is determined when the pawn is generated.^[Children?] Apparel can be dyed at the styling station for one dye per piece of apparel. Note that unlike with preferred apparel, outside of the Man in Black event, pawns will not necessarily spawn wearing color that matches their ideoligion or preferred colors.

Xenotype preferences[edit]

Believers consider this xenotype to hold a higher moral or spiritual status than others. They will be happy if their colony has only preferred xenotypes. However, having any preferred xenotypes means that all other xenotypes are considered disliked and believers will be unhappy living alongside them.

Up to three Xenotypes can be selected as preferred xenotypes, including baseliner and a custom xenotype. If at least one is selected then a positive mood will be generated if every colonist is a preferred type, but a negative scaling mood if even one colonist is not a preferred type.

Believers will not accept becoming a non-preferred xenotype via reimplant ability or xenogerms. If Sanguophage is not a preferred type and at least one other preferred type is set, colonists will refuse Sanguophage xenogerm implantation and quests that award Sanguophage xenogerm will fail to give the reward.^[Fail?]

Opinion:

Preferred xenotype: +10
Disliked xenotype: −30

Mood:

All preferred xenotype: +2
Some disliked xenotypes: −2
Many disliked xenotypes: −3
Tons of disliked xenotypes: −4
I am disliked xenotype<: −6

Venerated animals[edit]

This animal is considered by believers to hold a special spiritual or moral status, which means it must be venerated and may never be harmed.
— Description

An ideoligion can have up to 18 venerated animals.

Colonists will not hunt or attack venerated animals with ranged weapons (but will attack them in melee), unless the animal is in manhunter mood. They will not slaughter tame venerated animals.

Colonists will butcher venerated animals without any issue, but will refuse to eat their meat or any meal made with it (including meals stacked together), even when starving. They can be manually ordered to eat such food, but will get -8 mood for 5 days. If a colonist that venerates an animal is unconscious, other colonists (of any ideoligion) will not feed them such food, and cannot be manually ordered to do so. Colonists take no issue using leather, wool, milk, or eggs of the venerated animal.

Colonists will get -5 mood for 5 days if a tame venerated animal dies for any reason. Releasing tame animals is fine.

Colonists will get a positive thought for the amount of tame venerated animals in the colony, depending on their total body size divided by the total number of colonists: +2 for 1 or more, +3 for 2 or more, +4 for 4 or more, and +5 for 6 or more. In case of multiple venerated animals, all their body sizes are added together, producing a single thought. All colonists are counted for this, but only those of an appropriate ideoligion will get the thought.

Despite being tameable, Insectoids cannot be selected as a venerated animal.

Venerated animals are twice as easy to tame.

Hair and tattoos[edit]

An ideoligion has associated hairstyles, beards, and tattoos. Specific hairstyles and tattoos may be allowed for men, women, or either. Some of those may be more or less common.

Newly spawned pawns of an ideoligion will always have matching appearance.

If pawn's hairstyle, beard, or tattoo do not match what their ideoligion allows (usually as a result of a conversion), they will try to use styling station on their free time to automatically change their looks, and will have a -??^[Value?] mood penalty until they do so. They can also be sent to adjust their appearance manually.

Version history[edit]

Ideology DLC Release - Added.
1.3.3067 - Fixed gender supremacy memes having opposite agreeing traits e.g. Female Supremacy inexplicably being agreed with by Misogynist traited pawns. Fix: Essential roles can be removed.
1.3.3069 -
- Adjust trees-related thoughts. Negatives for killing trees are reduced. Positives for seeing trees are amplified.
- Chance of resentment on failed conversion attempt reduced from 36% to 20%. Chance of fight reduced from 4% to 2%.
- If a pawn has sight under 50%, he should gain a psychic sensitivity bonus of up to 50%.
1.3.3069b - Added a feature that lets you save and load ideoligions within the ideoligion customization screen.
1.3.3074 - Desired apparel now uses the same faction restrictions as role apparel does. Tribal-Only: War mask, Tribal Headdress. Non-tribal only: Slicecap, Beret. Removed visage mask restriction to non-tribal only. Integrate art for rough living issue and set it to medium importance. Ensure Tunneler meme always has the MiningYield_High precept. Fix 5234: Pawns can build turrets when prohibited by precepts.
1.3.3076 - Tree connection pawns have a 25% boost to Pruning Speed. Added temperature tough issue and precept. Fix: High life meme ideos generate with a warning about conflicting apparel.
1.3.3080 - Fixed Immunity Drive. Was previously targeting wrong stat and inoperative. Add a new ideoligion setup interface which allows playing like classic RimWorld, using presets, or fully customizing. Change harmful aging thought minimum age from 20 to 25. Added temperature precept icon.
1.3.3101 - Fluid ideoligion system added. Reduce production specialist crafting speed buffs from +70% to +50%. Increase impact of 'lost role' thought from −5 to −15. Pawns now recover from berserk trance on being downed. Fix: There are some duplicate ideoligion icons.
1.3.3117 -
- Fix: Sunlamp does not trigger blinding light for Darkness pawns.
- Improved viability of multi-ideo colonies. Pawns of pawns of any ideo can now spectate any ritual, even if it's not of their own ideo.
- Gaining, changing, or removing a role now requires a simple ritual.
- Added a precept related to Darkness meme that gives believers a positive thought during an eclipse.
1.3.3159 - Precept name length is now limited.
1.3.3200 - Pawns can now install pre-built furniture even if it is incompatible with their ideoligion.
1.3.3287 - A thin faint box is now drawn around ideoligion preset selectables, precept and meme boxes for aesthetic reasons. Reworked eclipse precept artwork. Remove the 'no recent animal slaughter' negative thought from the rancher meme, along with all associated code and content. This particular thought was too limiting for players and not worth having. Previously inflicted a −3 mood. Fix: Classic mode ideoligions don't start with some classic precepts. Fix: Ideoligion info available on ritual begin dialog in classic mode. Meme "Flesh Purity" no longer forces the anti-biosculpting precept.
1.3.3326 - Fix: Ability gizmos are still available for roles that have been removed via reformation.
1.3.3387 - Fix: Not all precepts are added to memes during fluid ideoligion development.
1.4.3523 - Fix: Berserker trance makes pawn guilty even though they cannot attack allies. Fix: High Life harvest yield for Drug Use: Essential precept doesn't work.
1.4.3542 - Fix: Certainty bar doesn't display for games where Ideology has been enabled after the game was started.
1.4.3555 - Biotech DLC cross integration. Added mechanoid labor, child labor, growth vats, and bloodfeeders precepts. Added bloodfeeding meme. Added preferred xenotypes.
1.4.3557 - Assign a fallback ideo^{[Detail Needed]} to non-baby colonists during load that don't have an ideo set. Fix: "Child not in growth vat" thought appears for dead children.
1.4.3563 - Fix: Animals specialist role mentions boosting animal-related abilities of nearby allies, which is false. "A special ideoligious status focusing on animals to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased taming and training efficiency, and the ability to boost the animals-related abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-animals-related tasks." -> "A special ideoligious status focusing on animals to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased taming and training efficiency. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-animals-related tasks."
1.4.3613 - Fix: Randomize symbols doesn't update member noun in ideology's description. Fix: Pawn auto-uses age reversal after changing from Transhumanist to Non-Transhumanist ideoligion.

Eclipse Precept icon prior to 1.3.3287

[Charity_quest-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Charity quest is one marked as such in the quest log, and includes: beggars, relic pilgrims, joining wanderer, crashing shuttle, pod crash refugee, refugees, chased noble, and joining wanderer in danger

[Drug_use-2] As pawns with this precept are unwilling to administer drugs, this won't appear on normal gameplay.

[Optional precepts 1]

[Optional precepts 2]