200 Toughspikes Later : Rimworld Anomaly Ep24 

Dumbshit Prime: nghhh? Peshet: no, we can't keep it. Dumbshit Prime: ngghhhh... Peshet: yes, it follows you home, because that is what fleshmass heart do! it is like cancer! Dumbshit Prime: ngghhhh! Peshet: what do you mean 'snack machine"?! Dumbshit Prime: nggggh.. Peshet: ok, fine, you can keep it, but you and your siblings are responsible for cleaning after it and keep it in a pen. Dumbshit Prime: ngggh? Peshet: yes, the little ones are your responsibility too! ... Nomad: if there are any toughspikes, try to bring few for... study. *grins to herself*

Random comment: Time is <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="207">3:27</a>PM. I’m sitting on my front porch, watching this video, while kids are walking by coming back from school. One asks me “hey, is that Francis?” and I reply “yep, today’s Rimworld vid”. He turns to his friend all excited and say “we have to run home, hurry up” and off he goes. You, sir, are very popular across the pond. Cheers!

I love how Francis encounters a horrific rapidly growing fleshmass and he quickly tames it and turns it into a means of production

The first half of the video is the exact representation of "if you only have a hammer every problem looks like a nail".

Normal Person: I'm afraid of monsters in the dark catching me. Monster: I'm afraid of Francis John in the dark catching me.

Francis created a fleshmart from the fleshheart.

You unlocked biomutation lances! They're my favourite new item in Anomaly (other than Ghouls of course!) They're really good at letting you steal low-shield pops from pirates, and the target's gear comes out un-tainted too. Plus it has four charges! Four! It means you can use your shock lances for more important targets. Swapping a shard for 4 low-pops is a deal I'd take every time.

The new era where we calculate needs by how much nuggets we need to maintain everything for a day

It seems to me that between some graves, some walls, and one of those hearts, you could fully wall a tile in so that nothing could get in or out, except through a provided passage way. It can effectively spawn walls in the zone that you can't build in yourself, and its self-repairing

Flesh heart. Invunrable to all damage. Francis: ill be the judge of that ..wheels out the literal big guns..

Francis is changing the definition of SCP to Study, Capture, Profit.

*It's fleshmas!* Jiggle bulbs, jiggle bulbs, chop 'em all away; oh that heart, it beats and writhes and so open it must splay!

You should name one of the RageMachines "WashingMachine"

Flesh beasts: "We are horrible creatures beyond imagening!" Francis: "I can imagine a few uses for you if I cut you down to size..."

When your pawns get hit with fingerspikes, etc they can be implanted with metal horrors. Something to be aware of.

Watching the FleshMass Heart grow its flesh mass around your assaulting party was straight up nightmare fuel.

You can use mechanoids in the caravan trick. Each mech in a caravan increases the carry weight of the caravan, but only pawns can pick items up. So you can just make a caravan to carry them (draft the mechanoids first), and then draft the colonist once they've picked up a bunch of waste packs and send them down the gate. You know? I'd love to see some tutorial nuggets of all the advice you get from youtube comments 🤔 You don't even need to finish the fences, just having materials delivered will prevent growth. Though you'll probably want to build some fence in front of all your doors for future flesh masses. Usually I get all 3 nerve bundles in the initial growth, but I also usually don't fight it till after it grows. It can trap your pawns if you don't have overwhelming firepower. You gotta watch it's growth cycles, it alternates between growing, and gathering mass to grow. Shamblers come in two types, approach and assault. The approach will just wander around attacking people if they see them. Assault will knock on your walls but generally only barely make it through 3 thick walls before keeling over. We've done testing on atmospheric heaters in the discord. It's 10c above normal per heater, and going above the autoignition point will *not* set things outside on fire, only things indoors will catch fire. Only fleshbeasts, ghouls, and shamblers take damage from the resulting heat.

I feel when you found an antigrain warhead just before the fleshmass showed up, Randy was trying to tell you something.

The unspeakable horrors of the darkest realms tell stories of these rimworlders to keep their kids in line.

There's a difference between shamblers "approaching" the colony and shamblers "assaulting" the colony. You can wait out shambler approaches like manhunters. Assaults destroy everything and must be dealt with. Not saying you should play it differently, just giving you the info. Also, it's been said but it's worth repeating: shamblers won't go through double doors. They'll break down a single door and will pursue colonists through them. But as soon as you have two doors between you and the horde, they will just stand around and get slaughtered. This is a bug and should be eventually patched out.

What do we do with the eldritch horror massing across our lands? FARM IT! Nothing can go wrong with this! ;D

Now I'm wondering how many atmospheric heaters it would take to keep a sea ice tile permanently above freezing.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="260">4:20</a> I think the reason why Xenotaph keeps going for the problematic entities instead of the neutered toughspikes is that the game doesn't register the outer room as a valid containment area (Ie: Containment strength =5), perhaps if you put a containment door on it instead of that gap (and floor the entire area with bioferrite) on the outer room it might change his pathing to one of the harmless goombas.

Infinitely expanding mass of flesh attacks. Normal people: "Find a way to kill it! Quickly!!!!!" Francis John: "Oooh! An infinite supply of Bioferrite nuggets and ghoul feed! Lets go!!"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="805">13:25</a> was extremely lucky Those acid turrets are no joke and they love to melt eyeballs Placing the entire team in one big blob must have been a big temptation for Randy.

Had an interesting event last night, I attacked a siege group, one of the first people to die released a metal thing, which triggered 5 or 6 more from other siegers. Interesting to know that can happen

For the fleshmass heart I found some success using mortars as daisy cutters and then transport podding in materials, builders, guards, and a farskip caster to build the containment walls before skipping out. It's risky for sure, but I just couldn't sustain combat for long enough to burrow my way through - id get most of the way, and then I'd need to rest and patch up my pawns and it'd just grow back. Was not prepared with enough pawns/drugs/weapons tbh.

Peshet looked over the amount of Toughspikes they had managed to contain. She was very happy with her decision to duplicate WarMachine again and again. This manhunter pulse ability had been really handy in acquiring so many specimens. All in all, the only downside of the cloning idea was that the Machines had ... what did they call it? ... Morales! Yes, that was what that was. They cared about things. About people they didn't even know. Like ... really? Why? She had talked about that with SomeMachine once, but Peshet still didn't get it. Also, if they hated being called SomeMachine, maybe they should stop reacting to it? Her little boy - well, not so little anymore, but whatever - had started calling them SomeMachine, and now everybody did. It was just easier all around. Peshet grinned. And funny. Ah well. She turned around and went in search of some Victor. She felt like beating one up again. She hadn't done it in far too long.

Flesh mass heart is finally a wally to generate walls along the edge of your base without waiting centuries for meteors. On a map with overhead mountain you could base under the mountain and with your power brick drop pod blocking techniques make it so that the only way into your base is warship unless you specifically destroy some blocker if you want an empire shuttle or something with no valid location for drop pods or walking onto the map you would be fully immune to all none anomaly raids except infestations which could be blocked with parkas and an internal freezing temperature throughout the base. Although this would necessitate trading for food I think the trade off is best with a farming section set up with a kill box to protect your main base from bugs

*@Francis John* <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1778">29:38</a> Try launching an EMP mortar round, both towards the flesh mass itself & also towards the heart, see if that does anything. ( also, remember to try the fire shells when it isn't raining/snowing :)

Right so there it is people. The way that this colony is going to deal with raids end game, is by having them catch fire as soon as they enter the tile.

If you're looking for a more reliable way to capture Bulbfreaks, you can use the creepjoiner with the power that mutates corpses into fleshbeasts. Just find an extra large corpse (thrumbo, megasloth, etc) and use the creepjoiner power on it--it'll turn into a single, isolated Bulbfreak which you can hit with a shock lance to down it (warning: this can cause enough damage to trigger the Bulbfreak to split, but has a higher chance of working than any other method I've tried). Bonus: The creepjoiner power has unlimited uses, and shock lances can be crafted (from shards).

"Do they know it's fleshmass time at aaaaaaallll..."

Tynan finally managed to turn Rimworld into Amnesia after you trigger the jammy walls.

Fairtrade, organic, ethically and responsibly sourced Bioferrite.

Only Francis would take something that would wipe most colonies, and gave him a very very messy fight, and figure out how to farm the bejesus out of it! :D

Could you have caravan loading trick loaded the waste onto a pawn instead of slowly moving it across the map 5 at a time, then sent them into the depths with Chernobyl on their back?

Now this is why I subscribed to this channel: Over the top contraptions and war crimes.

The second half of the video is "what if you are only facing nails" and you turn everything into a hammer. Love this series.

Found your channel via your ONI videos and stayed for the fun. Have never played Rimworld but am loving watching you play! So much mess and mayhem.

Honey, wake up new Francis John video just dropped.

With that heater I cant wait to see a playthrough where you melt the sea ice :)

I can't even think Tynan's reaction after seeing what Francis have did to his brand new DLC😂

build a mountain base, set the outside temp to 300C, keep the inside cool, any invaders immediately burst into flames because theyre trying to invade a volcano.

Francis finds a horrifying abomination…. turns it into a resource farm…. The anomaly’s should be afraid of Francis at this Point….wow 😂

Maybe use wall raise to block the flesh wall than send a good builder to build the fence,with enough heat to spend it might work

what we see : anomaly what fj see : WAREHOUSE , FARM, MONEY, DUPES, EFFICIENCY

Merry Fleshmass!

Why am surprised at all that Francis found a way to turn the horrific flesh infestation into a renewable resource? XD

Build a wall at the build limit line and force the flesh mass to fill the space between the edge of the map except for a single gap. That way raids should only come through the gap you dictate.

You run your base on green energy made from suffering of limbless, jawless, frostbitten horrors from another dimension. Somehow it's even darker than canibalistic ice-glacier sweatshop

...Of course Francis industrialises the fleshheart.

1 hour of watching Francis John beat the flesh ; )

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="524">8:44</a> ...but should any of you wish to beg for mercy, the great Jaba the Hut will now hear your pleas.

assuming it's not changed, there's is/was a trick with the fleshmass, if you fully box your base with no doors, and leave no clutter outside it. You can let it grow around your entire base and raiders won't break it, so you are "protected" against everything but drop pods

A mod I would highly recomend for keeping track of ghouls hunger so you don't get close calls like at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1910">31:50</a> is "BattIePatch: Ghoul Mood Bar Shows Their Hunger" it does as it says turns their mood bar on their portrait at the top of the screen that does nothing because ghouls don't have mood into their hunger bar so its easy to keep track of

I knew you would have fun with the anomalies the moment you started trying them.

Only you could think about farming this flesh monster. Also, before the toxic waste destroys everything, get all the loot from the pit. I mean the bionic stuff that seems to spawn down there.

'Flesh mash' - the carnivorous irishman's favourite dinner?

That Kevin, such a kidder.

Dumping corpses and toxic waste? There's bound to be a country song about Fly-Tipping the Pits of Hell.

RimWorld 1.5.5 patch notes: New Atlantean victory condition. Raise the temperature of your ice sheet base to 1°C

There are some interesting usecases for a contained heart. I think you could create self-repairing walls for example. Just put a wall on the inside and stop its growth on the outside via somthing preferrably raiderproof. This should mean when raider attck it all the growth would be focused on the damaged spot which should make them quite durable. You could probably also kind of use it like sealingfoam and quickly seal a breached area. All of these are just speculations though.

Now the question is: "can atmospheric heaters, melt steel beams?"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="440">7:20</a> Oh, I know EXACTLY what Francis is about to encounter. Painfully, intimately aware...I wonder how he'll handle it.

you may use oven kill-box to automate destroying flesh walls and incapacitate those thingies

Another day, another horror tamed by Francis lol

I think you can drop stone chunks by getting them into a caravan and manually dropping each chunk in the right place

I'm kinda sad Francis, you missed the real beauty of the fleshmass heart. It not you fencing it in, it's letting it fence you in. Its embrace is warm and protective. It would have shielded you from so much.

Yunners and genepacks, ghouls and fleshfarms. The cult of the dread god Ehm-elly is truly at the forefront of biotechnology.

ill bet the argihand was trying to "wander" near where it's owner is, if I'm not mistaken he was out at the fleshmass at the time.

Tutorial "nuggets" really got a new meaning.

you need to add all the information your gathering to the wiki like your toughspike bioferrite farm or containing the fleshmass heart

It's like a disturbing game of Snake.

It would be funny to use the atmospheric heater to cook the map (to kill all threats) and use coolers to keep the inside of your base nice and cool.

So now strip out the underground pit, put atmospheric heaters down, turn to 500°C and create hell. Maybe throw some rings down .... ....or continue with waste, so it can spawn endless amounts of insects for meat -> chemfuel and jelly

These fleshmass heart experiments are interesting. And to think I thought that containing the nucleus to get free twisted meat was strong! The idea occurs that you could make the fleshmass farm into its own freeze box... 🤔

The indomitable human spirit VS a hundred fleshmass responses.

So you heat up the entire map by about 300C, you keep your base cool with coolers, and heatstroke/incinerate everyone coming to your tile? Seems like fun

My strat was to wait for 3 nerve bundles, mortar them, use drop pods to send 2 pawns and 2 (later up to 8) ghouls, pave way to the samples, destroy the heart. Easy, simple, profitable :P

Kevin is just craving some Kentucky Fried Fleshmass Nuggets (with spicy bioferrite dip)

Is it just me or doesn't this feel just a bit like the plot of The Matrix? Flesh batteries...

The way the fleshmass is being forced to grow in a straight line like that gives me an idea. Regenerating flashmass curtain wall. (Roofed in so it doesn't mortar you ofc.)

I wander if you can prevent the acid spitter thingy from firing by building roofs over them? If so, I think, we could use this thing to make a self-healing outer walls. I'm thinking build normal walls on the inside to prevent fleshbeasts from spawning and graves on the outside. If breachers or sappers or aggressive shamblers show up, they will trigger a defense response from the fleshmass and get destroyed. Another question I wander if whether insects and fleshbeasts are hostile to eachother. Could you maybe use the fleshmash to wall in an infestation? If you drop trash on top of the hives and you surround the fleshmash with walls then maybe it's possible to force the hives to drop their jelly outside. Will insects try to mine the fleshmass? Will fleshbeasts attack insect hives?

Great video 👍

Ludeon releases a horror update. Francis: I'll show you who the real monster is! :)

I can report that two atmospheric heaters is sufficient to keep my temperate forest map at a stable 70°F. your mileage may vary for other biomes

Graves also don't require any materials to create which means they are easier to build in the field. I just realized that you could create an outer defensive wall using the Heart contained with Graves. Enemies don't attack the Flesh wall so presumably you could have a perfect defense.

My first encounter with flesh mass was before the colony had ghouls or flamethrowers. I had dogs as melee blockers instead. Didn't work out well for the dogs

I've been doing some playing around with metalhorror in dev mode. You absolutely can infect prisoners and guests. Infecting prisoners is relatively easy. They have something like 1/2 or 1/3 chance to get infected everytime a metalhorror host feeds them or harvests their blood. So really, you can just disable wardening and doctoring for the rest of the colony and set all prisoners to get hemogen farmed. Wounded guests whom you rescued can also be infected without diplomatic consequence if your infected colonist inspects them or feeds them. If you don't have any metalhorror epidemic going on, it's possible to put a wounded guest in a cryosleep casket for later use. As for prisoners, this combines well with a Yunner + bloodbag build. If you recruit a prisoner and give them the deathless gene (but not hemogenic), you can max out their mood and harvest their organs to put them in a permanant coma. Their hunger rate will get lower but 100% malnutrition won't kill them. Since they are members of your own faction, the harmonizer will still work if you arrest them (contrarily to slaves). Furthermore, since they won't be hemogenic, this means you can use them as blood bags. It's better if you bring their metabolic efficiency as low as possible. Their malnutrition + high hunger rate from low metabolic efficiency means that if you start feeding them again, they will eat a lot, leading to more opportunities for your metalhorror host to infect them. In any case, in my experience, metalhorrors emerging never directly kills the hosts. Usually, it's the bleeding or some additional finish shot that kills them. Since deadcalm prevents bleeding to death and death from damage to the torso, this is very unlikely to kill them. But actually the funniest result I got was to infect sieging raiders. I used skip to steal their components before they could build a mortar, I had my infected pawn cook a fuckton of fine meals and I droppoded those meals to them. Sieging raiders will eat fine meals over packaged survival meals if it's compatible with their ideology. The rate of infections seams a much lower though. 70 raiders, about 150 fine meals and 7 of them only got infected only. A few of them also got food poisoning because my kitchen was super filthy at the time. In any case, this seams profitable. Infected raiders don't immediately die why their metalhorror emerge leading to a higher than number of potential captures and of course the emerging metal horrors can do quite a number on the rest. More importantly, in all cases metalhorrors have 1/2 chance to drop shards. Voluntarily spreading the infection to pawns you don't mind dying is by far the most effective way to farm shards I have found so far. Edit: Turns out this is sustainable too!!! Contaminated meals remain contaminated so you can start a new epidemic by telling one of your pawns to eat a few! You can scale the shit out of this!

With the graves in combination with the fleshmasshearth you could also build an autorepair-selfdefense wall. Would be interesting how mech breachers or breachers in gerneral react to that.

No clue if you found since I'm just at the beginning but, if you click on the pit and on "enter pit" it should give you the caravan screen where you can form groups to enter the pit. Same in the pit. If you click on the rope and the button there, you can form groups and leave Edit: 5 seconds later and you showed the screen. nice timing

The questions are: 1. will raiders attack flesh walls to get to your base? 2. would enemy raids (or friendly caravans) spawn if all outer perimeter consumed by flesh (or only droppods would be an option for the storyteller)?

Fun fact about nuclear waste this is actualy one way how people are disposing it by puting them in old mines and concrete it in

Oh, there is a planet that everyone is fleeing because of horrible monsters. This dude comes along and goes, "Monsters you say? Hmm, how can I profit from this? Monsters definitely don't have rights"

I wonder if wallraise would have worked, both for instant-building walls to contain it, and also maybe on the edge of the map?

Re: frostbite limb reduction factory. It turns out that war crimes feel a lot more acceptable when they're on abstract fleshy things instead of humans. Imagine how it'd feel if they were humans.

That flesh heart thing reminds me of the alien monster in the film Evolution. Have you tried pumping it full of Head & Shoulders? 😂

I don't know why but mechs love to hang out in the killbox. Just going around in circles in the corridors.