It's so funny that "Yunners", a colonist from the max-pop run, became the de facto title for your meat beacons. He wasn't originally meant to be bed-bound, but acquired horrific brain damage from a botched psychic harmonizer installation. Locked mood just happens to be a positive side effect of becoming a vegetable.
I'm sure "Dumbshit" has now become the de facto name for FJ's ghouls. Any channel that goes long enough eventually starts gathering these injoke names for things.
You know, most of the RimWorld w a r c r i m e s don't bother me, they're kind of silly in the context of the game. But the concept of a psychic meat beacon, locked in a closet drooling out joy to everyone around them is just so uniquely RimWorld, and somehow far more horrifying than the run of the mill harvesting of parts. I didn't think this game could do that to me anymore.
There's a fun thing you can do with the corrupted obelisk if you don't mind losing one. Let it's activity climb, when it reaches 100% it will activate, creating 30 duplicates of random non-ghoul pawns. (technically it's based on raid points and just capped at 30 but with your wealth it'll always be 30) Thing is, they're perfect duplicates just like when you manually use it and they're all hostile, meaning no organ decay, no duplication sickness, no crumbling mind. So what you can do is anesthetize Warmachine and send everyone else except the ghouls out on a caravan, then either let it hit 100% activity or have the ghouls punch the obelisk to trigger the duplication, and since Warmachine is the only pawn on the map it will create 30 clones of Warmachine, and since Warmachine is anesthetized, so are all the clones. You can then bring the caravan back and capture all the helpless clones. This does destroy the obelisk but I really don't think you'll need it after doing this, and you now have a spare anyway.
He has two obelisks. Do this for War Machine once she's completely perfect, and do this for a tough yttkin with as many defensive buffs as possible, then turn all of the yttkin clones into ghouls.
The warmachine that gets dedicated to crafting should be called AssemblyMachine The electro harvester damages the entities it extracts power from. Sometimes it's brain damage that instantly scars. You can use this to slowly drain their sentience until they're permanently downed, then they can never escape. It's slow enough that they can't die except if you leave them long enough for the brain to get destroyed. The good part of this is it works for every kind of entity (except bulb freaks I guess?).
You know this is a proper Francis John rimworld run when he's captured some sort of hideous void abomination and he's discussing how to deliberately give it frostbite so he can freeze off its limbs and farm it for resources. Also for all the computer scientists out there: you have to call one of the clones "Turing Machine".
Xenotaph could feel it again. That itching, uncomfortable, yet alluring sensation in the back of his mind. "Just ignore it. It's fine. It'll pass." He lied to himself under his breath while keeping an eye on who was around. Peshet had incredible hearing and he wasn't trying to give himself away. That would come in its own time he knew. Eventually, once the itching was unbearable and the whispers actually audible instead of something that could be ignored as background noise or machines, he would break. That simple. He would reach the end of his ability to resist. He knew what happened then (scritch). The horror. The shame. The ridicule. Someone, one of the machines usually... fucking clones, always made some kind of remark or comment. It's not like he was doing this on purpose (itch) and he most certainly wasn't having fun (barely audible whisper, "You love it..."). Head down and focused on his tasks Xenotaph pushed it away as best he could. He was just glad he had a useful ability or he seriously wondered if he would have been ghoul food by now. Over the next few hours Xenotaph began exuding signs of his void fascination creeping up. A small twitch here. A biting remark to a normal comment there. Rubbing the base of his neck unconsciously. All the while unaware that all eyes were on him. Waiting. Xenotaph noticed Victor had been kind of "around" a lot more in the past hour or so. Victor approached Xenotaph and asked if he needed a hand with anything. Immediately on watch (itch) Xenotaph slowly turned to face Victor who took a small step back while subtlety reaching for a weapon one eye brow raised. "NO." (whispered laughter) Xenotaph cleared his throat and said in a more even tone, "No. I'm doing just fine. I have a lot of work to do so..." and turned back to his tasks. Victor moved away but did not leave the room Xenotaph noticed. The whispers were getting louder now and he knew it wouldn't be long. He wasn't even necessarily upset with Victor. He was very aware of what could go wrong should he release a REVENANT (intense short burst of joy trailed by ghostly giggles). It was always like that in his mind these days. REVENANT. All capital letters. Like he couldn't see them as anything less than the magnificent (scritch) creatures they were. Eyes glazing and fingers twitching, Xenotaph broke. Sighing from across the room Victor said, "About time." then yelled through the doorway, "PESHET!". From another room the reply, "Fucks sake. Right now?!" dwindling into inaudible curses as people began moving towards the containment area. Peshet yelled, "Shits! Front and center!" as she moved through the base with the rest making their way from various areas, shits included. Victor was already following Xenotaph. They had an idea they wanted to try out. If they could just snag the Revenant right before he fully freed it, then maybe that would be good enough. Then they could just chain it back to the platform once he was out of his daze. Easy peasy lemon... whatever. Xenotaph wasn't (was?) completely in control of his body. At least that's how it felt. Sort of. It was a very difficult feeling to explain as the wall to his right giggled at him. The audible hallucinations had begun. On the one hand he was a passenger in a vehicle headed directly into a horror show. On the other he could feel his body and was able to make motions if he wanted. The problem arose when he tried to actively go anywhere but the containment area. The floor beneath him was whispering how right this was and how he was chosen. There was a tether in his mind that was taut (itch) and being drawn directly to one of the entities (REVENANT). If he tried to turn away he lost complete functionality as if someone briefly grabbed the wheel (laughter echoing in his mind) and course corrected him. Every. Single. Time. This wasn't the first time this had happened. That was the problem. It wasn't the second either. He could vaguely hear people shouting and moving about. He knew Victor was nearby somewhere. Probably following him. "Can't even turn my FUCKING head!" he ranted in his own mind. The lights sang a mocking song at his expense while the beds from the medical room called insults about his heritage. Peshet watched as the shits lined up without having to be told where to go, paused to consider them for a moment, and the gleam in their eyes, then shook her head and made sure everyone was in position. She was very happy to discover you could just stun the Revenants with psychic abilities instead of having to waste flares on the ones they could already see. Everyone set up and in place, Victor followed Xenotaph into the containment facility. He tried his first plan of just relocating the first entity Xenotaph went for, but Xenotaph just changed targets. "Shit!" Victor exclaimed and hurried to finish securing the one he had already started moving. Peshet came running in, saw what was happening, and enacted the "catch as released" plan with a fair ease of success. The timing was impeccable. For a moment after they had finished securing the Revenants they thought it had worked. Xenotaph was leaving the room. Peshet and Victor looked at each other, then grinned. As they left the containment facility they found Xenotaph had not gone far and appeared to still be in a daze. Grins replaced with exasperated expressions they went back to work while keeping an eye on Xenotaph. Xenotaph was cheering in his own mind while the entities leered at him. They had done it! Sure he was still in a daze but he could leave the room! Progress! He wandered the chattering and laughing halls of the base. Not really bothered by the random shelf that called him something offensive nor the ceiling threatening to drop itself onto him at any moment. These were old hat. He'd been here before. They couldn't bother him now that he'd made progress! The damn ritual spot though... that thing told nothing but puns nonstop. No. Just. Just no. After a short while (scritch) he could feel the tether reforming (REVENANT) and drawing him back in. Now, he was terrified he would be in an endless loop (less... less... echoing in his mind). They would catch the REVENANT and he would wander off in this daze again... would he ever be free of this nightmare? He watched numbly as he entered the containment facility where Peshet was already waiting for him as she moved his target to another platform. Just as before his body turned automatically (the bioferrite harvester cackling mad nonsense at him) to the other REVENANT and he began his most holy work. He could not deny the ecstasy that filled him as he unbound the REVENANT. In this moment he was wholly subsumed by his fascination. The entire world sounded as if it were cheering him on. Lauding his merits to the heavens for all to hear. The platforms were singing his praises. The walls bellowed a victorious howl. The floor urged him to move faster. To release the REVENANT. ON. THEM. ALL! Then the world was silent. At least by comparison. The voices were replaced by slashing sounds and gunfire. The distinct ringing of a psychic shock going off to stun the REVENANT. Xenotaph immediately angry and embarrassed, again, began to open fire on the REVENANT (whispered apologies in the deepest reaches of his mind uncertain to whom they belong) to help clean up the mess he had made. Once the Revenant was taken down and the spine contained, Peshet walked over to Xenotaph and smacked him on the back of the head. The sound drawing the attention of everyone nearby. Peshet said, "I know you can't help it, but that's for the headache you gave us. Figured I'd share." Then walked away as Xenotaph looked down and rubbed the back of his head. A knot already forming. The floor giggled at his expense and he groaned, "Oh, no...".
Okay. This writing is EXCELLENT. Portraying the Void Fascination aspect as a hallucinatory episode is perhaps the best take I have seen on it, and the one that best integrates with the gameplay experience. I've lurked around on his channel, and only now am I actually commenting - I'm not really okay with Google thinking I'm a psychopath or something like that - and I'm really happy to see these stories come from his videos.
@@DavidAllen-px7gr Wow. Thank you very much. I love writing and it's been a long time since I've sat down to put my mind into it and enjoyed it. I was originally inspired by @redunicorngaming as they were adding in their own storylines. I've enjoyed reading theirs as well. The last time I posted a story in response to a FJ video was during the Swat Wizards Archonexus run. Timing felt right for another one and I really liked the idea that Xenotaph wasn't necessarily in control of the situation.
Your curtain wall area includes the exterior wall. This means that if something hits the outside wall, your pawns will leave the base to go repair it from the outside since they can not reach it from the inside. You need to remove the 2 outer wall layers from the "Curtain Wall" zone to prevent them from ignoring your zone restriction when something attacks the outside wall. Edit: You missed it, but 5Machine went out while you were fighting the mech cluster at 1:03:05 to repair the wall even though they were supposed to stay inside. Edit again: You caught War Machine leaving the base to go repair the walls. Just remove the outer 2 layers of the exterior wall from the "Curtain Wall" zone, and they will stop going outside to repair it.
Another idea could be to make it a two-layer curtain wall with a corridor going all the way around and airlocks every so often. Or instead of airlocks, use wooden barricades to make it a literal firewall lol.
@@Genesis8934 The problem with that is that when they destroy a wall, they will then go after another random wall anywhere around the base. If you have 2x or 3x thick walls there is only a 1/500 chance that they will target the wall segment directly behind the one they just broke through. But if you have a corridor between the walls, they have a 50% chance for all the mobs to begin targeting the next interior walls and they will all start breaking through much faster.
@@Genesis8934 There is nothing wrong with his current setup. He just needs to remove the outer 2 layers of wall from the curtain wall zone so they will not try to go outside when something is trying to break through. If they start to get close to breaking through, he can build some extra wall segments on the inside right where they are attacking. Shamblers only last 6 hours when they are the attacking type, so you just have to wait them out and they will drop dead. 2 layers has always been enough for me.
1:04:25 Warmachine's allowed area includes the outer tiles of the 3-thick curtain wall, so she went outside to repair the damaged segments. Only the inner layer of wall segments should be covered by the allowed zone to keep pawns from going outside at all.
The revents talkins at night: Ravenent 1: "Bro, I got the second door last time." Revenent 2: "No way, really? I event touch the first!" Metalhorror: "What...."
@@erikraskADT1 Nugget: "They don't even lock me away, they just keep me out in the open like a decoration. I heard them talking; they want to get _more_ of my kin, and freeze _their_ tentacles off too! They want to turn us into batteries! Decorative batteries! They're monsters! Anomalies!"
BTW, if you close your doors when sightstealers are attacking, they won't try to knock them open nor to attack your walls. Contrarily to manhunters, they don't seam to leave or to die. They will essentially stay around until they have an enemy to attack. So you can totally just call a mech boss on their butt or whatever.
If you decide to build Atmospheric heaters, I recommend you build 2 sets: some connected to your main grid to prevent temperature to go below -10 celcius and some connected to an independant array of solar panels that raises temperature to 10 celcius. The first set will prevent plants from dying from the cold. The second set will activate during the day allowing plants to grow, but it won't activate during the night when plants are sleeping. I recommend you put the first set into a closed room with vents connected to your barrack to save power during the night. Or I guess you could just capture more tough spikes and brute force it all. That'd work too.
I found the most interesting use of the atmospheric heater to be equipping your entire team with phoenix armor and cowboy hats. Jack the outdoor temperature to 100+ C, and basically all biologicals will die of heatstroke when they come onto the map.
@@vRANDv Oooh! That's a very cool idea! You're basically turning the whole map into a heat tunnel! Do they heat up the map fast enough that you can activate it reactively when a raid shows up or do you need to keep them on 100% of the time? BTW if you are going extreme heat, use tribalwear. They have a much better heat insulation than pants + buttom-down shirts.
I did some experimenting with pumping up the temp to 190C at that point humans start taking burn damage periodically. That way raids die really quick as the heatstroke was not working fast enough. However I could not get the coolers to work anymore. So it was impossible to grow plants or run a freezer. Need some way to generate cooling at high temps so you can grow crops and freeze food.
1:03:00 - 5machine out there shooting and the other group in the door above and Francis unaware was so good. 😆Samuel even went down for a minute, can see the blood trail he left crawling back to bed. :P
1:04:26: I learned from someone very smart ( *points finger at FJ* ), that if you put the outer wall segments of your curtain wall in an allowed area, people *will* walk through disallowed areas to reach those said wall segments, e.g. to repair them or something like that ...
the whole toughspike thing takes a lot more work and can still be slaughtered, you want to do the void provaciation until you get the heart. that’s the best anomaly to keep
I don't know, Francis evil schemes are strangly soothing like a demented nursery rhyme wich are most of them when I think about it. *Ahem* Rock a bye baby on the flesh beast belly, when the cold hits the cradle will rock. When the limb breaks the flesh beast will fall, and there will be bioferrite, enough for us all,.
"The Machines are the only ones in this colony with heart" and then we wonder why Skynet wanted to kill us all when it became self aware. It was probably surrounded by a bunch of bloodthirsty psychopaths.
6:40 I think in most colonies you can do whatever you want to the Guilty. That means you have 24 hours to take a few organs, use the ripscanner, maybe even fit in a ritual, though that might not fall under 'guilty enemy' even if you _do_ have those precepts.
I wonder how much maxed out Yunners would give. Biofferite gear in this DLC gives gigantic sensitivity, you can probably never be sad on the whole map!
"Turns out the Machines are the only ones in this colony with heart!" Yunners, in a sour tone: "Wonder why that might be?" Also, I've missed the Acrapathons.
(~) 13:20 "now it rains?" Idea: roof in killbox so that if any of them get a shot off, they're in the dark and can't see. Then either give your colonists light sources behind them or leave the kill zone unroofed.
A minor benefit of roofing it in is also, that when the shooter and the target are both under a roof the negative effect of weather on accuracy is prevented.
I got rather lucky and ended up with a bulbfreak with a broken spine that didn't pop. It's now in its own, dedicated room, unable to do anything but be harvested forever.
Francis, not sure if you've seen it already, and I don't want to spoil it, but there are some other sources of infinite, inescapable bioferrite. Now it is definitely harder to get a lot of them, but they give a lot more per entity.
Spoilers Bulbfreaks are too fragile and there's no way to keep the void ball around permanently, I assume you mean doing this freezer trick on devourers?
@@bmobmo6438 Spoilers I've taken another look on the wiki for the fleshmass nucleus, and it produces less than I thought it did, only 3 bioferrite per day. It is more than the toughspikes, but not as good as I previously thought. Though it does still make infinite twisted meat, good for a massive ghoul army.
I haven't played around with it yet, but another alternative to creating "Anomaly Nuggets" would be converting tame animals into Shamblers. Either by using a natural Death Pall or via the tech it unlocks. Large animals like elephants should also produce more bioferrite per day as the harvester gets a bonus for creature mass.
It's a good day when you make Yunners and twisted Nuggets at the same episode. And you might want The shit to your collection of Ghouls to make a perfect Ghoul mosh pit, so 3 more to go!
Today was a really difficult day emotionally. It was really nice after all of it to be able to turn this on and forget about the world for awhile. Thank you , Sir Francis John edit: Well damn it...it ended....
28:00 Lada is about the same age as my granny, and all I could imagine was her being in Lada's situation. A bit of laughs, and some shudders 🤣 1:08:26 "And we can do some really dumb stuff towards the end-game", next frame, with all those holding spots, I'm calling classic @Francis shenanigans are incoming, and definately looking forward to what that would look like. 27 holding spots for infinite and safe Toughspike farming now, then what the hell does he mean by future dumb stuff??? 🤣🤣🤣 Never change @FJ ❤ Edit: for capturing those Toughspikes; ghouls with wooden hands. Removes their claws, which would severely hamper their ability to cause bleeding wounds. Would be a major step backwards in this case, but for anyone else trying this, it's a good starting point. Wooden hands on ghouls is also a great way to keep prisoners alive during an escape (ofc, deaths do still happen, but not nearly as much as without those wooden stumps 😅)
That poor revenant keeps getting released and immediately recaptured... Are you trying to convert it to your ideology? 28:13 Lada got caught between a fire and a cougar place
Yes. The books will unlock thing that are lock. I have the Vehicles mod in my current game. For Tier 3 you normally have to find a damaged vehicle on the map and restore it first to build it. But i got the schematic for the Cherokee (Schnook) and it was read by the colonists and was unlocked, no need to find it on map tiles.
About sightstealers waves: Event "sighstealer shrieks" is triggered randomly (quite low chance) by death of sighstealer. I dare you to test on uncapped threat scale to check how many sighstealers in single wave you need to create infinite sighstealer swarm storming your base
John I would really like to see you playing the second part of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. I was enjoying your first one. So please consider. And yes, more Rimworld shenanigans, please.
Anti-Yunners when? Enemy pawn, psychic hypersensitive body (edit) purist too smart neurotic teetotaler, a pain spike, peg legs and hands with loads of drugs.
This would be hilarious to include. You'd have to have one from every faction to turn into an Anti-Yunners, which seems doable. edit: Oh my god. I just realized... abduct the stellarch, imprison them, make them an anti-yunners for the empire, then buy their alliance back with gifts?
@@Genesis8934 You could totally do that, I'm not sure why other than the luls, you'd have trade caravans and such mental breaking. You could probably farm goodwill off berserk breaks.
Besides the already mentioned negative of needing one for every enemy faction, the two other issues are range and time. The range is only something like 40 tiles, so you can't cover the whole map Perhaps, say, just the killbox. That leads to the second problem, time. No matter how negative someone's mood debuff is, their mood bar has a maximum rate in which it will fall. So you would need the right faction, in range of the raid, long enough for it to affect them, and even then it causes them to act more chaotically and you really are better off with predictable raids. Fun concept, but still not practical. Perhaps if sensitivity increased range.
for the total anti tox lungs on wasters, that is complete immunity to all enviromental and gas toxins, so rot gas would be included. the difference between that and tox immunity is tox immunity is also immune to "injected" toxins like venom fangs or things like cobra attacks, and i think the apocriton's, or whatever it is, toxic needle gun thing
14:22 I think those scratches from those middle aged cougars were very inconsiderate and not inconsiderable. Just think,, those ghouls have to go back and be seen by children! Unthinkable! For such lover's indiscretions to be seen... unacceptable. [this entire comment is is intentionally ridiculous, just to be clear lol]
"This is the final stage of WarMachines evolution by stealing skills" (aka philophagy). Remind me again what the faction name of last seasons totally overpowered antagonists were?!? The VOID! I did not realize this season is the faction origin story prequel of last season...
I think what happened with the cultists attacking (or the reverse mormans as you called them) is you shocked their leader. When peshet was holding them their name said cox, boss in the hud. Not 100% on this but pretty sure that's what aggroed them.
at 1h3m, what was number 5 doing there? They proberly heard the noise and wanted to check it out like the 2 traders right after oh I see. Curtain wall had the outside wall in it. They most likley stood in a door and went outside fighting because they're not set to run away. I think I would remove the wall from that area
Toxic environment resistance does protect against lung rot, but it doesn't protect against venom attacks. Toxic resistance (without the word environment) does protect against venom attacks but it doesn't protect against lung rot. It's usually not worth maxing both. Tox env resistance is usually better, especially since you can get an easy 50% tox env resistance from a face mask.
@@JoshSweetvale True, although there is an opportunity cost of using the same plasteel for other bionics. P Furthermore, they won't get duplicated by the corrupted monolith. 2 fleshmash lungs and the partial antitoxic lung gene will also give 100% tox resistance for only 1 point of metabolic efficiency whilst also being clonable. The down side is that it causes 12 pain. It combines well with the inhumanized hediff and the pain:idealized precept.
@@JoshSweetvale Dehumanized pawns have half the pain which is which flash mass organs combine well with it. You don’t lose consciousness with 10% or less pain. All 3 flesh mass organs add up to 20 pains, which is 10 with dehumanized.
1:07:34 Why is the tough spike not closer to the door connected to the main base? As the priority is set by proximity, currently he is the furthest away.
Instead of having to exclusively recruit specific pawns just because they have specific traits. You can reform you ideology to include precepts like "Execution is respected if guilty" and "Organ use acceptable" If you made your ideology not fluid then you can get the mod "All ideologies are fluid"
Damn, he is torturing the spawns of Cthulhu to profit from their disabled bodies. It just puts into perspective what a real monster can do. Anyhow... Francis, do you have a custom pawn in rim world? A lot of content creators do.
Hey Francis, not sure if you like early access games but Abiotic Factor is quite silly but a good challenge. Maybe up your alley good sir. Or not such is life. Keep up the good work
A suggestion to balance out the power levels, it may be worth imposing some additional player created rules, like those you have for pawn traits. Perhaps you only allow yourself a duplication for each new entity you find.
- Is it worth having a prison near the killbox to speed up captures and use for over-capacity? - I'm guessing this is the plan but when you get Dead Calm, you can give that to all your prisoners. - I'd set most of your pawns to gene rip when safe to do so (especially Peshet as some vampire genes are amazing) and you can sell off the surplus genes (they're not that valuable but it all adds up, even with your gold statue trick, if you're at the wealth cap, more is more and there's little downside to it, especially if you went on more ambitious shopping runs). - You're getting to the point where IMO you could invest in having animals (e.g. dogs for hauling, muffalo for wool and as beasts of burden). I don't know if dogs can eat twisted meat, or if any changes have been made to the "human fridge" strat. - I would capture most enemies that are downed in a fight and gene rip them. You can gene rip them twice or scan their brains (you having a Yunners means you can probably just ignore the mood penalties these cause, and worst case scenario you have mind numb serum) or release them after a single gene rip. You can also do this on downed enemies with Death Refusal on them. - That Highmate a few episodes back... I wonder if you used that psychic eating ability on them (making them psychically deaf) if that prevents them forming psychic bonds? Might be worth testing. - I'd also get some beauty enhancing genes and bionics, or genes to stop social fights... or both.
9:00 maybe just skip Xenotaph just to buy some time? Might also be worth building second storage facility so you always have a free platform - might also be interesting to see how having no free entities impacts Xenotaph's fasciation. edit: see at the end here, you have come up with another option!
Wish we had an option to draft crawling pawns and move them manually, or at least prevent them to move, so they don't open doors letting enemies in. Setting temporary zones for each downed pawn is kinda awkward.
27:06 this is what makes shotgun tunnel useless and most melee KBs. And why remove the hearth on Yunners? You can just put them to deathrest and never wake them up. So you at least could wake them up if you need more vamp genes, or the place is on fire or whatever.
He put "Yunners" into deathrest on the spot by removing heart. Other way was to wait all these days till deathrest's need arizes. (Btw, as far as I seen, "auto wake up" is still in "enabled", so there will be "a small surprize" soon...)
Do the twisted trees eat body l bodies thru walls, even if they don't you should plant some in the kill box if you can. Just have to clear some trees instead of a hundred bodies.
I was just thinking, whenever a Rimworld movie will come... and accidentally they take Francis John's videos as an inspiration for the script... which MPA rating this film would get? Even NC-17 seems not to be restrictive enough 😅
It is such a shame.. Francis makes very nice videos but doesn't seem to even visit his discord. Or read the comments on the videos (unless y ou pay for it).. I was hoping at some point he would include a save file again on his videos like he did before.. This is my favorite channel on some of the game I'm learning to play or started playing because of these videos.
I shocked someone to capture and wasn't paying attention because my colonist was carrying them to the prison bed, but somewhere along the way the prisoner was killed and the body ended up in the morgue... don't know what happened because they should have been taken to the bed while knocked out and I thought if someone was being carried they wouldn't somehow escape...
Might've been a busy doctor. Sounds like the pawn had injuries/was bleeding out perhaps? I think that Pawns are invulnerable when being carried but I could be wrong.
@@Genesis8934 pretty sure it wasn't injured besides the shocklance, it didn't get into melee range and the person carrying them had a monosword and was still drafted and the dead 'prisoner' had monosword injuries
I've had a pawn that was shocked come to and start fighting while being carried back to the prison - I was startled because I didn't think that was possible, and thought I must have been doing something wrong. I went back to the save multiple times to see, and every time about 1/2 way to the prison the captured pawn started to melee the person who was carrying it.
Transmute steel abuse, cloning pawns with max skills, at this point it’s enabling the cheat menu with extra steps. If we are gonna go even more broken broken then this then max threat scale should be removed like we should have done for long time ago. It just becomes comically easier and easier without it somehow more than it already is.
How about a 'Yunners bearer' pawn, someone who's only job is to carry Yunners around in battles to inspire the troops? Maybe make it an ideological role? Edit: I wonder if it's possible to remove all but a pawn's head...
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It's so funny that "Yunners", a colonist from the max-pop run, became the de facto title for your meat beacons. He wasn't originally meant to be bed-bound, but acquired horrific brain damage from a botched psychic harmonizer installation. Locked mood just happens to be a positive side effect of becoming a vegetable.
They say ignorance is bliss. And you can't get anymore ignorant of the outside world than being brain dead.
I'm sure "Dumbshit" has now become the de facto name for FJ's ghouls. Any channel that goes long enough eventually starts gathering these injoke names for things.
Yes.
@@Yunners you lucky, lol
You know, most of the RimWorld w a r c r i m e s don't bother me, they're kind of silly in the context of the game. But the concept of a psychic meat beacon, locked in a closet drooling out joy to everyone around them is just so uniquely RimWorld, and somehow far more horrifying than the run of the mill harvesting of parts. I didn't think this game could do that to me anymore.
There's a fun thing you can do with the corrupted obelisk if you don't mind losing one. Let it's activity climb, when it reaches 100% it will activate, creating 30 duplicates of random non-ghoul pawns. (technically it's based on raid points and just capped at 30 but with your wealth it'll always be 30) Thing is, they're perfect duplicates just like when you manually use it and they're all hostile, meaning no organ decay, no duplication sickness, no crumbling mind. So what you can do is anesthetize Warmachine and send everyone else except the ghouls out on a caravan, then either let it hit 100% activity or have the ghouls punch the obelisk to trigger the duplication, and since Warmachine is the only pawn on the map it will create 30 clones of Warmachine, and since Warmachine is anesthetized, so are all the clones. You can then bring the caravan back and capture all the helpless clones.
This does destroy the obelisk but I really don't think you'll need it after doing this, and you now have a spare anyway.
I hope he does this.
He has two obelisks. Do this for War Machine once she's completely perfect, and do this for a tough yttkin with as many defensive buffs as possible, then turn all of the yttkin clones into ghouls.
That would be cool but he could only do that at the latest point of the series, I don't think we have a use for thirty more pawns
Oh my.. this is amazing.
How are the ghouls going to punch the obelisk if warmachine is the only pawn on the map?
The warmachine that gets dedicated to crafting should be called AssemblyMachine
The electro harvester damages the entities it extracts power from. Sometimes it's brain damage that instantly scars. You can use this to slowly drain their sentience until they're permanently downed, then they can never escape. It's slow enough that they can't die except if you leave them long enough for the brain to get destroyed.
The good part of this is it works for every kind of entity (except bulb freaks I guess?).
I second the AssemblyMachine vote, but say do it for any crafting clone
You know this is a proper Francis John rimworld run when he's captured some sort of hideous void abomination and he's discussing how to deliberately give it frostbite so he can freeze off its limbs and farm it for resources.
Also for all the computer scientists out there: you have to call one of the clones "Turing Machine".
Xenotaph could feel it again. That itching, uncomfortable, yet alluring sensation in the back of his mind. "Just ignore it. It's fine. It'll pass." He lied to himself under his breath while keeping an eye on who was around. Peshet had incredible hearing and he wasn't trying to give himself away. That would come in its own time he knew. Eventually, once the itching was unbearable and the whispers actually audible instead of something that could be ignored as background noise or machines, he would break. That simple. He would reach the end of his ability to resist. He knew what happened then (scritch). The horror. The shame. The ridicule. Someone, one of the machines usually... fucking clones, always made some kind of remark or comment. It's not like he was doing this on purpose (itch) and he most certainly wasn't having fun (barely audible whisper, "You love it..."). Head down and focused on his tasks Xenotaph pushed it away as best he could. He was just glad he had a useful ability or he seriously wondered if he would have been ghoul food by now.
Over the next few hours Xenotaph began exuding signs of his void fascination creeping up. A small twitch here. A biting remark to a normal comment there. Rubbing the base of his neck unconsciously. All the while unaware that all eyes were on him. Waiting. Xenotaph noticed Victor had been kind of "around" a lot more in the past hour or so. Victor approached Xenotaph and asked if he needed a hand with anything. Immediately on watch (itch) Xenotaph slowly turned to face Victor who took a small step back while subtlety reaching for a weapon one eye brow raised. "NO." (whispered laughter) Xenotaph cleared his throat and said in a more even tone, "No. I'm doing just fine. I have a lot of work to do so..." and turned back to his tasks. Victor moved away but did not leave the room Xenotaph noticed. The whispers were getting louder now and he knew it wouldn't be long. He wasn't even necessarily upset with Victor. He was very aware of what could go wrong should he release a REVENANT (intense short burst of joy trailed by ghostly giggles). It was always like that in his mind these days. REVENANT. All capital letters. Like he couldn't see them as anything less than the magnificent (scritch) creatures they were. Eyes glazing and fingers twitching, Xenotaph broke.
Sighing from across the room Victor said, "About time." then yelled through the doorway, "PESHET!". From another room the reply, "Fucks sake. Right now?!" dwindling into inaudible curses as people began moving towards the containment area. Peshet yelled, "Shits! Front and center!" as she moved through the base with the rest making their way from various areas, shits included. Victor was already following Xenotaph. They had an idea they wanted to try out. If they could just snag the Revenant right before he fully freed it, then maybe that would be good enough. Then they could just chain it back to the platform once he was out of his daze. Easy peasy lemon... whatever.
Xenotaph wasn't (was?) completely in control of his body. At least that's how it felt. Sort of. It was a very difficult feeling to explain as the wall to his right giggled at him. The audible hallucinations had begun. On the one hand he was a passenger in a vehicle headed directly into a horror show. On the other he could feel his body and was able to make motions if he wanted. The problem arose when he tried to actively go anywhere but the containment area. The floor beneath him was whispering how right this was and how he was chosen. There was a tether in his mind that was taut (itch) and being drawn directly to one of the entities (REVENANT). If he tried to turn away he lost complete functionality as if someone briefly grabbed the wheel (laughter echoing in his mind) and course corrected him. Every. Single. Time. This wasn't the first time this had happened. That was the problem. It wasn't the second either. He could vaguely hear people shouting and moving about. He knew Victor was nearby somewhere. Probably following him. "Can't even turn my FUCKING head!" he ranted in his own mind. The lights sang a mocking song at his expense while the beds from the medical room called insults about his heritage.
Peshet watched as the shits lined up without having to be told where to go, paused to consider them for a moment, and the gleam in their eyes, then shook her head and made sure everyone was in position. She was very happy to discover you could just stun the Revenants with psychic abilities instead of having to waste flares on the ones they could already see. Everyone set up and in place, Victor followed Xenotaph into the containment facility. He tried his first plan of just relocating the first entity Xenotaph went for, but Xenotaph just changed targets. "Shit!" Victor exclaimed and hurried to finish securing the one he had already started moving. Peshet came running in, saw what was happening, and enacted the "catch as released" plan with a fair ease of success. The timing was impeccable. For a moment after they had finished securing the Revenants they thought it had worked. Xenotaph was leaving the room. Peshet and Victor looked at each other, then grinned. As they left the containment facility they found Xenotaph had not gone far and appeared to still be in a daze. Grins replaced with exasperated expressions they went back to work while keeping an eye on Xenotaph.
Xenotaph was cheering in his own mind while the entities leered at him. They had done it! Sure he was still in a daze but he could leave the room! Progress! He wandered the chattering and laughing halls of the base. Not really bothered by the random shelf that called him something offensive nor the ceiling threatening to drop itself onto him at any moment. These were old hat. He'd been here before. They couldn't bother him now that he'd made progress! The damn ritual spot though... that thing told nothing but puns nonstop. No. Just. Just no. After a short while (scritch) he could feel the tether reforming (REVENANT) and drawing him back in. Now, he was terrified he would be in an endless loop (less... less... echoing in his mind). They would catch the REVENANT and he would wander off in this daze again... would he ever be free of this nightmare? He watched numbly as he entered the containment facility where Peshet was already waiting for him as she moved his target to another platform. Just as before his body turned automatically (the bioferrite harvester cackling mad nonsense at him) to the other REVENANT and he began his most holy work. He could not deny the ecstasy that filled him as he unbound the REVENANT. In this moment he was wholly subsumed by his fascination. The entire world sounded as if it were cheering him on. Lauding his merits to the heavens for all to hear. The platforms were singing his praises. The walls bellowed a victorious howl. The floor urged him to move faster. To release the REVENANT. ON. THEM. ALL!
Then the world was silent.
At least by comparison. The voices were replaced by slashing sounds and gunfire. The distinct ringing of a psychic shock going off to stun the REVENANT. Xenotaph immediately angry and embarrassed, again, began to open fire on the REVENANT (whispered apologies in the deepest reaches of his mind uncertain to whom they belong) to help clean up the mess he had made.
Once the Revenant was taken down and the spine contained, Peshet walked over to Xenotaph and smacked him on the back of the head. The sound drawing the attention of everyone nearby. Peshet said, "I know you can't help it, but that's for the headache you gave us. Figured I'd share." Then walked away as Xenotaph looked down and rubbed the back of his head. A knot already forming. The floor giggled at his expense and he groaned, "Oh, no...".
Poor Xenotaph, now I feel bad for him.
Okay. This writing is EXCELLENT. Portraying the Void Fascination aspect as a hallucinatory episode is perhaps the best take I have seen on it, and the one that best integrates with the gameplay experience. I've lurked around on his channel, and only now am I actually commenting - I'm not really okay with Google thinking I'm a psychopath or something like that - and I'm really happy to see these stories come from his videos.
@@DavidAllen-px7gr Wow. Thank you very much. I love writing and it's been a long time since I've sat down to put my mind into it and enjoyed it. I was originally inspired by @redunicorngaming as they were adding in their own storylines. I've enjoyed reading theirs as well. The last time I posted a story in response to a FJ video was during the Swat Wizards Archonexus run. Timing felt right for another one and I really liked the idea that Xenotaph wasn't necessarily in control of the situation.
Your curtain wall area includes the exterior wall. This means that if something hits the outside wall, your pawns will leave the base to go repair it from the outside since they can not reach it from the inside. You need to remove the 2 outer wall layers from the "Curtain Wall" zone to prevent them from ignoring your zone restriction when something attacks the outside wall.
Edit: You missed it, but 5Machine went out while you were fighting the mech cluster at 1:03:05 to repair the wall even though they were supposed to stay inside.
Edit again: You caught War Machine leaving the base to go repair the walls. Just remove the outer 2 layers of the exterior wall from the "Curtain Wall" zone, and they will stop going outside to repair it.
Another idea could be to make it a two-layer curtain wall with a corridor going all the way around and airlocks every so often. Or instead of airlocks, use wooden barricades to make it a literal firewall lol.
@@Genesis8934 The problem with that is that when they destroy a wall, they will then go after another random wall anywhere around the base.
If you have 2x or 3x thick walls there is only a 1/500 chance that they will target the wall segment directly behind the one they just broke through.
But if you have a corridor between the walls, they have a 50% chance for all the mobs to begin targeting the next interior walls and they will all start breaking through much faster.
Perhaps double-thick exterior walls then?
@@Genesis8934 There is nothing wrong with his current setup. He just needs to remove the outer 2 layers of wall from the curtain wall zone so they will not try to go outside when something is trying to break through.
If they start to get close to breaking through, he can build some extra wall segments on the inside right where they are attacking. Shamblers only last 6 hours when they are the attacking type, so you just have to wait them out and they will drop dead. 2 layers has always been enough for me.
and he never realised he almost get one pawn beaten to death xD
"I return to you now, at the turn of the tide."
Don't forget to blind your Yunners to increase psychic sensitivity.
1:04:25 Warmachine's allowed area includes the outer tiles of the 3-thick curtain wall, so she went outside to repair the damaged segments. Only the inner layer of wall segments should be covered by the allowed zone to keep pawns from going outside at all.
41:45 "We'll just do what you always do when you encounter a problem like that." _thunder sounds_
The mad scientist energy is only increasing
I'm so glad this has caught on camera and uploaded
The bit at the end... I have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
From unspeakable eldritch horror to...a nugget.
Cask of Amontillado vibes, welcome Count Yunners!
The revents talkins at night:
Ravenent 1: "Bro, I got the second door last time."
Revenent 2: "No way, really? I event touch the first!"
Metalhorror: "What...."
Nugget: "At least you still have legs, arms, and a working jaw"
@@erikraskADT1 Nugget: "They don't even lock me away, they just keep me out in the open like a decoration. I heard them talking; they want to get _more_ of my kin, and freeze _their_ tentacles off too! They want to turn us into batteries! Decorative batteries! They're monsters! Anomalies!"
BTW, if you close your doors when sightstealers are attacking, they won't try to knock them open nor to attack your walls. Contrarily to manhunters, they don't seam to leave or to die. They will essentially stay around until they have an enemy to attack. So you can totally just call a mech boss on their butt or whatever.
So next time sight stealers show up. Summon mechs and let the two of them kill each other, we mop up the remains.
If you decide to build Atmospheric heaters, I recommend you build 2 sets: some connected to your main grid to prevent temperature to go below -10 celcius and some connected to an independant array of solar panels that raises temperature to 10 celcius. The first set will prevent plants from dying from the cold. The second set will activate during the day allowing plants to grow, but it won't activate during the night when plants are sleeping. I recommend you put the first set into a closed room with vents connected to your barrack to save power during the night.
Or I guess you could just capture more tough spikes and brute force it all. That'd work too.
I found the most interesting use of the atmospheric heater to be equipping your entire team with phoenix armor and cowboy hats. Jack the outdoor temperature to 100+ C, and basically all biologicals will die of heatstroke when they come onto the map.
@@vRANDv Oooh! That's a very cool idea! You're basically turning the whole map into a heat tunnel! Do they heat up the map fast enough that you can activate it reactively when a raid shows up or do you need to keep them on 100% of the time?
BTW if you are going extreme heat, use tribalwear. They have a much better heat insulation than pants + buttom-down shirts.
I did some experimenting with pumping up the temp to 190C at that point humans start taking burn damage periodically. That way raids die really quick as the heatstroke was not working fast enough.
However I could not get the coolers to work anymore. So it was impossible to grow plants or run a freezer. Need some way to generate cooling at high temps so you can grow crops and freeze food.
1:03:00 - 5machine out there shooting and the other group in the door above and Francis unaware was so good. 😆Samuel even went down for a minute, can see the blood trail he left crawling back to bed. :P
That is just such sloppy play on my part. I am so lucky no one died.
1:04:26: I learned from someone very smart ( *points finger at FJ* ), that if you put the outer wall segments of your curtain wall in an allowed area, people *will* walk through disallowed areas to reach those said wall segments, e.g. to repair them or something like that ...
I am such a muppet for forgetting this. I'm pretty sure I figured that out at the end of the murder munchkins.
Dupemachine would be a fitting name for one of the new warmachines. Considering how often they have been duped :D
the whole toughspike thing takes a lot more work and can still be slaughtered, you want to do the void provaciation until you get the heart. that’s the best anomaly to keep
49:00 Victor is one hell of a *Laparoscopy* (keyhole surgery) surgeon ;P
What a flex! :D
1:20am here, well no sleep today again I guess 😅
I don't know, Francis evil schemes are strangly soothing like a demented nursery rhyme wich are most of them when I think about it. *Ahem* Rock a bye baby on the flesh beast belly, when the cold hits the cradle will rock. When the limb breaks the flesh beast will fall, and there will be bioferrite, enough for us all,.
Yep, my sleep schedule also went poof today.
"The Machines are the only ones in this colony with heart" and then we wonder why Skynet wanted to kill us all when it became self aware. It was probably surrounded by a bunch of bloodthirsty psychopaths.
14:35 the mass cougar noises makes me snort-laugh 🤣
6:40 I think in most colonies you can do whatever you want to the Guilty. That means you have 24 hours to take a few organs, use the ripscanner, maybe even fit in a ritual, though that might not fall under 'guilty enemy' even if you _do_ have those precepts.
I wonder how much maxed out Yunners would give. Biofferite gear in this DLC gives gigantic sensitivity, you can probably never be sad on the whole map!
"Turns out the Machines are the only ones in this colony with heart!" Yunners, in a sour tone: "Wonder why that might be?"
Also, I've missed the Acrapathons.
(~) 13:20 "now it rains?" Idea: roof in killbox so that if any of them get a shot off, they're in the dark and can't see. Then either give your colonists light sources behind them or leave the kill zone unroofed.
Or Francis's colonists could embrace the Combat in Darkness: Preferred precept, and/or be given nightvision genes.
Dark actually doesn’t give any accuracy debuff , at least not in vanilla. I think it is something that CE introduced
Unless ofc you have the darkness meme but that is another story
Worse thing is:
Water isn't the only thing that drop from the sky in Anomaly
A minor benefit of roofing it in is also, that when the shooter and the target are both under a roof the negative effect of weather on accuracy is prevented.
Remember to change the ghoul zone to the new prison.
Yunners is back! that dude is so lucky he is in many episodes :D
I got rather lucky and ended up with a bulbfreak with a broken spine that didn't pop. It's now in its own, dedicated room, unable to do anything but be harvested forever.
I have been keeping an eye out for a spine broken bulbfreak, no luck as of yet. It's rare.
Francis, not sure if you've seen it already, and I don't want to spoil it, but there are some other sources of infinite, inescapable bioferrite. Now it is definitely harder to get a lot of them, but they give a lot more per entity.
Spoilers
Bulbfreaks are too fragile and there's no way to keep the void ball around permanently, I assume you mean doing this freezer trick on devourers?
@@bmobmo6438 Spoilers
I've taken another look on the wiki for the fleshmass nucleus, and it produces less than I thought it did, only 3 bioferrite per day. It is more than the toughspikes, but not as good as I previously thought. Though it does still make infinite twisted meat, good for a massive ghoul army.
Shush, let him find out as he plays
I haven't played around with it yet, but another alternative to creating "Anomaly Nuggets" would be converting tame animals into Shamblers. Either by using a natural Death Pall or via the tech it unlocks. Large animals like elephants should also produce more bioferrite per day as the harvester gets a bonus for creature mass.
It's a good day when you make Yunners and twisted Nuggets at the same episode.
And you might want The shit to your collection of Ghouls to make a perfect Ghoul mosh pit, so 3 more to go!
The shit, the whole shit, and nothing but the shit!
Fun fact: I met the REAL Yunners. That's my claim to fame.
WarMachine's evolution is not finished, not quite yet. There is still one last thing he needs, that only the void can offer him 🙂
Today was a really difficult day emotionally. It was really nice after all of it to be able to turn this on and forget about the world for awhile. Thank you , Sir Francis John
edit: Well damn it...it ended....
28:00 Lada is about the same age as my granny, and all I could imagine was her being in Lada's situation. A bit of laughs, and some shudders 🤣
1:08:26 "And we can do some really dumb stuff towards the end-game", next frame, with all those holding spots, I'm calling classic @Francis shenanigans are incoming, and definately looking forward to what that would look like. 27 holding spots for infinite and safe Toughspike farming now, then what the hell does he mean by future dumb stuff??? 🤣🤣🤣
Never change @FJ ❤
Edit: for capturing those Toughspikes; ghouls with wooden hands. Removes their claws, which would severely hamper their ability to cause bleeding wounds. Would be a major step backwards in this case, but for anyone else trying this, it's a good starting point. Wooden hands on ghouls is also a great way to keep prisoners alive during an escape (ofc, deaths do still happen, but not nearly as much as without those wooden stumps 😅)
That poor revenant keeps getting released and immediately recaptured... Are you trying to convert it to your ideology?
28:13 Lada got caught between a fire and a cougar place
Yes. The books will unlock thing that are lock. I have the Vehicles mod in my current game. For Tier 3 you normally have to find a damaged vehicle on the map and restore it first to build it. But i got the schematic for the Cherokee (Schnook) and it was read by the colonists and was unlocked, no need to find it on map tiles.
About sightstealers waves:
Event "sighstealer shrieks" is triggered randomly (quite low chance) by death of sighstealer.
I dare you to test on uncapped threat scale to check how many sighstealers in single wave you need to create infinite sighstealer swarm storming your base
This is Lada's finest hour... 🥩🥩🥩🐆
Woo! Yunners time!
Great video 👍
John I would really like to see you playing the second part of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. I was enjoying your first one. So please consider. And yes, more Rimworld shenanigans, please.
If you have a bunch of shits blocking the passage to the kill box, would that be a constipation?
A murder of crows, a gaggle of geese, a trouser of shits.
Oh my god he actually made entity equivalent of Yunners
Anti-Yunners when? Enemy pawn, psychic hypersensitive body (edit) purist too smart neurotic teetotaler, a pain spike, peg legs and hands with loads of drugs.
This would be hilarious to include. You'd have to have one from every faction to turn into an Anti-Yunners, which seems doable.
edit: Oh my god. I just realized... abduct the stellarch, imprison them, make them an anti-yunners for the empire, then buy their alliance back with gifts?
@@Genesis8934 You could totally do that, I'm not sure why other than the luls, you'd have trade caravans and such mental breaking. You could probably farm goodwill off berserk breaks.
Besides the already mentioned negative of needing one for every enemy faction, the two other issues are range and time. The range is only something like 40 tiles, so you can't cover the whole map Perhaps, say, just the killbox.
That leads to the second problem, time. No matter how negative someone's mood debuff is, their mood bar has a maximum rate in which it will fall. So you would need the right faction, in range of the raid, long enough for it to affect them, and even then it causes them to act more chaotically and you really are better off with predictable raids. Fun concept, but still not practical. Perhaps if sensitivity increased range.
@@Genesis8934 I hope he does this that would be glorious
@@squidwardo7074 apparently it's only viable at the start of the game before there's any pawns generated by raids. Unfortunate. :\
Unnatural healing also cures duplicate sickness, with less murder. Not sure if that’s considered a plus or a minus.
for the total anti tox lungs on wasters, that is complete immunity to all enviromental and gas toxins, so rot gas would be included. the difference between that and tox immunity is tox immunity is also immune to "injected" toxins like venom fangs or things like cobra attacks, and i think the apocriton's, or whatever it is, toxic needle gun thing
14:22 I think those scratches from those middle aged cougars were very inconsiderate and not inconsiderable. Just think,, those ghouls have to go back and be seen by children! Unthinkable! For such lover's indiscretions to be seen... unacceptable. [this entire comment is is intentionally ridiculous, just to be clear lol]
"This is the final stage of WarMachines evolution by stealing skills" (aka philophagy). Remind me again what the faction name of last seasons totally overpowered antagonists were?!? The VOID! I did not realize this season is the faction origin story prequel of last season...
12:30 that's a fun obelisk to... suddenly explode. Especially on jungle map
I think what happened with the cultists attacking (or the reverse mormans as you called them) is you shocked their leader. When peshet was holding them their name said cox, boss in the hud. Not 100% on this but pretty sure that's what aggroed them.
at 1h3m, what was number 5 doing there? They proberly heard the noise and wanted to check it out like the 2 traders right after
oh I see. Curtain wall had the outside wall in it. They most likley stood in a door and went outside fighting because they're not set to run away. I think I would remove the wall from that area
Toxic environment resistance does protect against lung rot, but it doesn't protect against venom attacks. Toxic resistance (without the word environment) does protect against venom attacks but it doesn't protect against lung rot. It's usually not worth maxing both. Tox env resistance is usually better, especially since you can get an easy 50% tox env resistance from a face mask.
Two bionic lungs give 100% tox gas resistance at zero biology cost.
@@JoshSweetvale True, although there is an opportunity cost of using the same plasteel for other bionics. P Furthermore, they won't get duplicated by the corrupted monolith.
2 fleshmash lungs and the partial antitoxic lung gene will also give 100% tox resistance for only 1 point of metabolic efficiency whilst also being clonable. The down side is that it causes 12 pain. It combines well with the inhumanized hediff and the pain:idealized precept.
@@Tamizushi Maybe for mass-cloned masochist soldiers.
For Masochists, you might wanna have ways of increasing conciousness.
@@JoshSweetvale
Dehumanized pawns have half the pain which is which flash mass organs combine well with it. You don’t lose consciousness with 10% or less pain. All 3 flesh mass organs add up to 20 pains, which is 10 with dehumanized.
1:07:34 Why is the tough spike not closer to the door connected to the main base? As the priority is set by proximity, currently he is the furthest away.
Yeah, new video, let's gooooo!!!
dear mister Francis , anomaly containment strength depends from walls and doors , change them to plasteel for massive buff
I also go straight for the nuggies when the void calls
Instead of having to exclusively recruit specific pawns just because they have specific traits. You can reform you ideology to include precepts like "Execution is respected if guilty" and "Organ use acceptable"
If you made your ideology not fluid then you can get the mod "All ideologies are fluid"
I think the last of the Machine line should be named God Machine because he is a God tier pawn.
Damn, he is torturing the spawns of Cthulhu to profit from their disabled bodies. It just puts into perspective what a real monster can do. Anyhow... Francis, do you have a custom pawn in rim world? A lot of content creators do.
No custom pawn, though I do feel like I do owe them more money for all the fun/hours I have had playing Rimworld.
You should put the proximity detectors near all outside doors or you might get surprised by a revenant in the middle of your colony
Hey Francis, not sure if you like early access games but Abiotic Factor is quite silly but a good challenge. Maybe up your alley good sir. Or not such is life. Keep up the good work
Since allot walk around in cougar fur pants, the cougar could be named Smarty pants.
Tentacles should also double as Love Enhancers. Who doesn't love a good tentacle under the sheets?
Devious profile picture to use while saying that
@@gonathi117 So many places they can reach!
Autodoors are looking increasingly valuable :V
A suggestion to balance out the power levels, it may be worth imposing some additional player created rules, like those you have for pawn traits.
Perhaps you only allow yourself a duplication for each new entity you find.
11:36 Let's re-enact the Emu war!
- Is it worth having a prison near the killbox to speed up captures and use for over-capacity?
- I'm guessing this is the plan but when you get Dead Calm, you can give that to all your prisoners.
- I'd set most of your pawns to gene rip when safe to do so (especially Peshet as some vampire genes are amazing) and you can sell off the surplus genes (they're not that valuable but it all adds up, even with your gold statue trick, if you're at the wealth cap, more is more and there's little downside to it, especially if you went on more ambitious shopping runs).
- You're getting to the point where IMO you could invest in having animals (e.g. dogs for hauling, muffalo for wool and as beasts of burden). I don't know if dogs can eat twisted meat, or if any changes have been made to the "human fridge" strat.
- I would capture most enemies that are downed in a fight and gene rip them. You can gene rip them twice or scan their brains (you having a Yunners means you can probably just ignore the mood penalties these cause, and worst case scenario you have mind numb serum) or release them after a single gene rip. You can also do this on downed enemies with Death Refusal on them.
- That Highmate a few episodes back... I wonder if you used that psychic eating ability on them (making them psychically deaf) if that prevents them forming psychic bonds? Might be worth testing.
- I'd also get some beauty enhancing genes and bionics, or genes to stop social fights... or both.
In the famous words of David Mitchell… are we the baddies? 👀
9:00 maybe just skip Xenotaph just to buy some time? Might also be worth building second storage facility so you always have a free platform - might also be interesting to see how having no free entities impacts Xenotaph's fasciation.
edit: see at the end here, you have come up with another option!
12:00 Shame that they are not Psychos or Bloodlusts. That would be the perfect pawn for this colony :)
Oh god, seems like these horrible eldrich creatures have someone they have to fear aswell...
If lada survived 28:08 you should keep him, we could have made him president of the colonies! :D
I think you may be forgetting that you have a pawn with Healing power Francis.
Could have used that on the clone rather than killing them off.
Wish we had an option to draft crawling pawns and move them manually, or at least prevent them to move, so they don't open doors letting enemies in. Setting temporary zones for each downed pawn is kinda awkward.
27:06 this is what makes shotgun tunnel useless and most melee KBs. And why remove the hearth on Yunners? You can just put them to deathrest and never wake them up. So you at least could wake them up if you need more vamp genes, or the place is on fire or whatever.
He put "Yunners" into deathrest on the spot by removing heart. Other way was to wait all these days till deathrest's need arizes.
(Btw, as far as I seen, "auto wake up" is still in "enabled", so there will be "a small surprize" soon...)
You can put a Vamp in Deathrest any time he only needed to wait for the 2 day Gene schock
Do the twisted trees eat body l bodies thru walls, even if they don't you should plant some in the kill box if you can. Just have to clear some trees instead of a hundred bodies.
You could probably have pawns off themselves, extract 1 or two hemogen packs then have them smoke a joint.
For for the mental break on anomalies or prisoners, I like wall raise.
I was just thinking, whenever a Rimworld movie will come... and accidentally they take Francis John's videos as an inspiration for the script... which MPA rating this film would get? Even NC-17 seems not to be restrictive enough 😅
Nuggets? Are they chicken? You should ask the ghouls, 'cos apparently everything tastes like chicken.
One of the machine needs to be CogintheMachine...
I have no suggestions for machine5. When we get to six on the other hand.
It is such a shame.. Francis makes very nice videos but doesn't seem to even visit his discord. Or read the comments on the videos (unless y ou pay for it).. I was hoping at some point he would include a save file again on his videos like he did before.. This is my favorite channel on some of the game I'm learning to play or started playing because of these videos.
Possible Warmachine clone name " Vendingmachine" !
Francis, lover of nuggies.
@Francis John, possible name for crafting machine lathe or Sowingmachine.
pardon my immaturity, but... that name...
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"Mae Cox" this feels like some nickname straight from xbox 360
btw u can strach ghoul endlessly by resorecting them
could you plant one of those flesh eating trees in the killbox saves you the hassle of cleaning it up every time.
Might it be time to uncap raid points? 🤔 (Though there's a risk of just big time-consuming rather than actually-challenging raids.)
If you make another Ghoul, please call it Bull
Skipping corpses extinguishes them.
Skipping pawns does not.
...Wait, where is the Genotype option in Numbers? How have I not found it before?
I shocked someone to capture and wasn't paying attention because my colonist was carrying them to the prison bed, but somewhere along the way the prisoner was killed and the body ended up in the morgue... don't know what happened because they should have been taken to the bed while knocked out and I thought if someone was being carried they wouldn't somehow escape...
Might've been a busy doctor. Sounds like the pawn had injuries/was bleeding out perhaps? I think that Pawns are invulnerable when being carried but I could be wrong.
@@Genesis8934 pretty sure it wasn't injured besides the shocklance, it didn't get into melee range and the person carrying them had a monosword and was still drafted and the dead 'prisoner' had monosword injuries
I've had a pawn that was shocked come to and start fighting while being carried back to the prison - I was startled because I didn't think that was possible, and thought I must have been doing something wrong. I went back to the save multiple times to see, and every time about 1/2 way to the prison the captured pawn started to melee the person who was carrying it.
RAGE MACHINE RAGED
Transmute steel abuse, cloning pawns with max skills, at this point it’s enabling the cheat menu with extra steps.
If we are gonna go even more broken broken then this then max threat scale should be removed like we should have done for long time ago. It just becomes comically easier and easier without it somehow more than it already is.
How about a 'Yunners bearer' pawn, someone who's only job is to carry Yunners around in battles to inspire the troops?
Maybe make it an ideological role?
Edit: I wonder if it's possible to remove all but a pawn's head...
Very nice