Lets stop being Subtle : Rimworld Anomaly Ep21 

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The boars can't get past the fences in the killbox hallway.

Name Recommendation for a ghoul. Giggles as in "the Shits and Giggles"

Woopwoop! Happy thursday 🎉 16:32 it's really not random. The hallway to the killbox is lined with spaced out fences. Boars are stopped by fences, so they have no way of entering the shooting gallery and end up making their own way in

Francis, those Wild Boars from Yattkin raid went after your walls not because they were thin, but because they had no path inside ! Your killbox tunnel has fences, and while most enemies are just slowed by them, wild boars fall into category of animals that is stopped by fences. So unless fences are replaced with sandbags, or alternative routing for boars is created, every Yattkin raid will have cases of boars chewing at walls, even whey they are thicker. In my Anomaly playthrough, I did the same with tunnel and fences. And when local boars randomly went mad, they went through the tunnel because they happened to be next to it, but had to destroy every fence to get inside, afterwards replaced them with sandbags, had no issue since. PS. FYI, Shard suppression works through walls if containment platforms are in range. So you can have single entity cells (they escape one by one) with optimised shard usage. PS2. I now realise there are multiple comments about boars and fences. Well that's what you get when you watch video as its released and fall asleep 15min in xD

"I'm the best surgeon on the Rim, I can even do it blindfolded"

2:28 At least it wasn't 28 anti-grain shells... :D (would have been really cool to see though) :D

This colony is basically Mordor. A desolate, infested, polluted place overseen by the all-seeing eye that gives orders to its' twisted creations and constantly improves its' undead knights.

52:40 Fun fact: the research from books isn't affected by research speed modifiers. So for example, tribal ritualists with the Extremely Slow Research meme can still use books to research.

Metalhorror is an event; the game decides it's on and then retroactively invents some reason as to how it happened(which sometimes makes no sense, like the clone being infected "before they arrived at the colony") When you detect a Metalhorror in an infected pawn, all the other Metalhorrors will automatically emerge and the event is over. There is no "incubation period" where a pawn is infected but Metalhorror doesn't emerge. Note how the current Metalhorror(T4) had a different biosignature than the previous one(Q8) Although it's interesting you managed to get the biosignature from just one sample. Triple-layer walls are definitely overkill; regular enemies will attack one random tile of a wall, then when it's destroyed they will randomly pick another tile. With two layers the chance of them digging through two consecutive tiles is already extremely low, especially with wall as long as yours. Three and more layers offers minimum advantage but is significantly harder to repair because you have to micro and make sure pawns repair the inner layer(s) before they repair outer layers; if you don't they'll leave holes in middle layer(s) or even build themselves in. And breachers generally don't care how thick the wall is, they're going to quickly cut through it regardless.

If you build a bridge on the unstable land, and then build a moisture pump on top of it the tile beneath will instantly be dried out. Then you can deconstruct and do it on the other tiles as well. It costs a lot of resources but if you're late enough game that you're not worried about the steel and components it dramatically speeds up the drying process. Hope I'm not saying anything you already know. I'm always nervous to comment stuff. You are my number 1 favorite creator, hands down. Love the run so far!

"Fleshbeasts to the left of me, Mechanoids to the right. Here I am stuck in the middle with you."

As soon as the shield pack went down, I said to myself "he really should skip him out before the pack pops anyway" only for it to happen immediately after.

1) Right from the very beginning of the game, you can make a ghoul a vampire (lots of advantages, including immortality, without the need for sleep and blood). And try to put an adrenaline heart on at least one - it has a very low cooldown. 2) The number of enemies in quests can reach up to 200x3 pawns, and they attack almost simultaneously. But with tools from the anomaly, this is nothing (there are only a lot of lags)). And why are there fences in the killbox?! Some animals cannot pass through them. The bags require a minimum of any leather and also do not burn.

Looks and sounds like Francis is admitting that he's gotten a bit rusty, so perhaps I could pass along some advice, much of which I had learned from his previous playthroughs? 1. I'd consider adding burnbox and gasbox features (and maybe an optional zombiebox feature that could be toggled) to the maze part of your killbox, so that you could have options to burn and gas your enemies to the point where dozens, if not hundreds, of them would be easier to subdue or kill than gunning them down as soon as they emerge from the chokepoint. Heck, it might make getting more shield pop packs, doomsday rocket launchers, and ghoulification targets easier than otherwise. (I believe that it was called H.E.A.T.?) Oh, and I think I recall that molotovs were easy to craft. 2. Remember in your older Biotech playthrough when you roofed in all but one or more of the killbox, so that lightning would only be allowed to strike within said open holes? 3. Remember how insanely fast you could make a Sanguophage pawn with some addons to their deathrest caskets? 4. Remember how incredibly overpowered you could make your pawns with the right genetics, that were built up over time via gene harvesting? 5. Remember how annoying those Tesserons were to fight, since they would set things on fire with their lasers? Perhaps some Firefoam Spray genes, Waterskip psycasts, or firefoam packs could help keep your pawns from running around on fire (or your Pyrophobic pawns from mentally breaking from seeing fire nearby), out of cover, like a bunch of headless chickens? Oh, and I do believe that you were able to drop and replace memes with other memes when reforming your ideoligion. Perhaps you'll decide to drop one of your older memes for, say, the Supremacy meme?

Hey, Francis! This boars are attacking you walls because they are small creatures. Wargs are large creatures and they can pass over the fences in a way to your kill box, but boars can not. You might want to change fences for something else. Chairs?

I think using "draw shamblers" and stuff counts as a void event, so it resets the timer for the next one. Use void provocation to pull an unknown entity.

If you want more out of your summoned shamblers and flesh beasts, there are mortar shells you can make to revive the dead shambler corpses and flesh beast corpses so that they can continue fighting the mechs, best of all since you are the one who launched it, they will not attack you. I'm pretty sure that you unlock it after the first death paul

Burc was travelling with some of the Machines to the distress signal. His mother and Smerk had agreed on cloning WarMachine, again and again. They thought she just brought the best "mix to the table", as they'd put it. So they were currently up to four Machines in the colony, including the original. Being wasters, they were all pretty ugly, and Burc could NOT tell them apart. At all. Sooo ... he'd just started calling all of them "SomeMachine", because ... why not? For some reason, none of them liked that, although he found it funny that they all still reacted to the name whenever he used it. Grinning, he said: "SomeMachine!" and watched three heads turn in his direction. Hilarious. He snickered before marching on.

comment for the algorithm

Idea for next playthrough, not 500% difficulty but you have to accept EVERY QUEST, goal should be to try get as many done as possible before leaving the rim, also feel free to not do this, it's purely a light hearted suggestion

54:50. Nope! Just a dry streak. I'm just back from an quicktest, and on my end (An vannilla game) it still works with the Large Nature Shrine. My Methodology: Load up a Dev Quicktest. Turn on god mode. Spam out large nature shrines. Grant Ability -> Transmute Steel -> have pawn transmute a bunch of shrines. Voilà! Gold!

30:51 Yes you had :P if you look at 30:43 when you selected every pawn, one of them had farskip... :)

Another ghoul name to add to the pile... "Schitt's Creek" (after the tv series). Also a series idea for rimworld... lone (male) sanguophage/vampire with an army of ghouls, where you can only hire colonists that you turn into ghouls or as slaves. 34:06 Unless it's changed, you should be able to split those with some baseliner prisoners. The downside is having to wait for the genes to regrow before you yoink them back out (unless you don't care). 57:15 Put some wood floors in your killbox that you use for the Diaboli so they burn longer. I think the impact/explosive damage will destroy anything else, but I think wood floors are invincible and still help burning potential. (that might be a good test to do in the background).

The day Francis went: "Hang on, I am the captain now!" lol

27:00 Careful, you can't call it the clone wars, the mouse and his army will come with their legal team.

unstacking turret still works, but i heard there are times it will fail, if raiders have a pathable way to another turret. if all turrets are blocked with doors it should work 100% of times.

Any chance one of the ghouls could be left handed (ie power claw on the left) purely because I'm left handed and we need representation in the ghoul faction

For any save scum out there, The transmute ability is based on the item's creation time rather than transmute timing. You only get different results if you save before item completion to transmute

21:08 Unpowered turrets surrounded by doors still cause enemies to pop out of each other in 1.5, so long as they're not targeting a pathable powered turret.

I do not make mistakes of that kind, i wanted orange, it gave me lemon-lime!

13:54 geeeeee, they can preform operations like that , hehehehhehe

I guess if your doctor can do an operation blind and completely hammered, they can get pretty good at what they do? Wouldn't want to be the test subject though.

Could you perhaps include the 'Show Weapon Tallies' mod again? I've just seen the update to the 'Quick Stockpile Creation' mod, and it is very good. And thank you very much for the entertaining video!

Just caught what was wrong with the killbox at 8:45 Open/remove the door by the barricade in the box. If there is no walkable path to a pawn or property at the moment they select a target, they will instead target walls and fixate until something forces them to re-target. Also if you leave an UNREACHABLE UNPOWERED turret by the entrance enemy pawns will go in single file. Just remember that if any turret on the map does get powered raiders will be able to go in stacked on top of each other, so maybe leave a single conduit segment under it so it doesn't auto attach to a live wire. (EDIT) just got to the next raid he figured out the door thing.

13:00 because if you can perform surgery while going through withdrawals, you can perform surgery anywhere.

Octopuses and Octopi are both acceptable. Therefore Diaboluses and Diaboli are both good. Language is just whatever we happen to agree on.

Nah, collision still occurs with an active turret behind doors. Also, yeah, don't gap geothermals. That is super bad. Wall straight around them, with no space.

You think you're a good doctor? Warmachine once operated on a live ghoul in a dark room for 13 hours, while he was in psychite withdrawal. After the operation, he said, "I should have done it blindfolded."

28:20 Don't run away! Full O'shite is a tough yttakin with ghoul plating right? They could have easily soloed those fleshbeasts even without fire support and been fully healed well before you headed home. Try setting a ghoul to aggressive and undrafting them, I find they make a more effective meatshield since they prevent enemies from using their ranged attacks. Other than toughspikes, all the standard fleshbeasts usually die in one hit to basically anything (and power claws let ghouls kill them pretty fast too. the tough in toughspike is only compared to the wet tissue paper all the other fleshbeasts are made of). Ghouls with adrenal hearts can CHEW through them so fast that mine often doesn't even take any hits even from reasonably sized groups of fleshbeasts. 47:25 You also could have let your ghouls take point here more. if they're next to each other (so they can be engaged in melee at the same time to prevent firing) a ghoul can handle multiple centipedes. Obviously they'll get pretty wrecked by charge blasters but only if they get the chance to fire. By all means, have some colonists peek out once the centipedes are engaged in melee, but send the ghouls in to prevent any shots from being fired. The mechs can't shoot your colonists if they can't shoot at all because they're busy getting wrecked by a ghoul. I have adrenal hearts in mine, and that definitely helps with closing the distance, but I've also had my ghouls tank centipede blaster salvos and be fine, so it's not a requirement.

I think the problem is that you are using fences to slow down raiders going into your killbox and wild boars are pen animals that are blocked by fences. Since they don't have a path they will just attack walls. Maye you could replace the fence posts with sandbags or barricades.

So....make hording great again? 🤔 could've sworn there was a clip in the 100k about that 🤣

No idea if this is true, but worth testing. Is the cloning obelisk tricking the game into not giving you new anomalies? The game may not have expected people to want the horrors and not "progress" the raids until it's cleared. Might be worth making a test branch and clearing it to see if something shows up

Searched for the declination of diabolus in my latin-german dictionary and couldnt find that word. As the dictionary is considered to translate old roman literature it makes sense at that moment you realize that these old romans had no devil/diabolus. They believed in Hades as we all know...🤪😇

I can now honestly say this is the "crappy"-est playthrough.

Boars are blocked by fences so the fences and barricades in your killbox are blocking them so they have no path to you (same as having the doors closed) so they make their own. you can get mostly the same effect as barricades and fences with sandbags and those don't block smaller animals

Why arent you shipping the waste packs off to neadathal tribals. I dont care how tough they are. Nade box will end them.

Another benefit is that revenants don't bash your expensive security doors down while they're escaping.

Yeah some wild animals are blocked by fences, so when they go manhunter, they start chewing on the walls, because they can't climb over the fences in your tunnel.

Use deadlife dust mortar shells. Combine with draw shamblers to make a never ending army. Plus side, they are friendly to you

Should really try out the sleep suppressor and frenzy inducer. Putting both of them in your workshop is insane

Yea uhh. I've had many bad instances with lightning. Roof anything you don't want destroyed by it

How does warming the environment work? it probally doesn't matter now with winter, but still curious

Try implanting prisoners with the fast runner gene pack bundled with tinderskin etc. and then try to rip scan fast runner isolated.

Warmachine is actually a metalhorror but every time he gets discovered he just sheds part of himself to pretend it was all solved.

Francis, my only hope for this series is to have a bugs vs mechs vs manhunter animals vs shamblers vs fleshbeasts battle on your tile. Even better if you can summon the diabolus while you also have a mech cluster on the tile

30:33 you should check corpses if they come out of a flesh sack. They sometimes have excellent and better weapons on them.

Oh my god, there is an iguana It's still here... Upd: noooooo not the iguana!

Hey francis, dont forget about invisble enemies in your kill boxes :)

I just finished rewatching your 200+ pawn challenge series and to see you embrace that kind of absurdity again makes me so happy

41:30 It also might be worth having a second set of entity restraints on the other side of your colony, transfer all 3 of them at the same time so you effectively have no entities at all, maybe they'll give up their need to release one as you have none?

love the classic killbox but it's just not the same without the vertigo pulse.

Woohoo! It's Entity Liberation Day! Let's PARTY!

I had lightning blow up a shelf with an anti grain mortar shell in it and we had a really amazing new back door in our basement

I've learned more Latin from the comment section than I ever learned in school or in 5 years working in retail pharmacy when I was younger.

if you dont need the research maby you can make entity power gen... are you able to put more then one in?

What if you wall raised in front of the door or just built a wall when a pawn goes on an entity release?

At some point you should turn a clone into a goule and name her s*** machine

I think if we have a Shih Tsu, we definitely need a Dogshit.

The day they patch the caravan trick will be a sad day for FJ.

It's been a week almost. I make my meal prep according to you. Cmon man :D

love you francis congratulations♥️🎉♥️🎉

finally, francis has come around, more op plays plz

Have you considered flood lights?

The next machine clone "Bert Kreischer" he is The Machine!

TIL: Farskip can be cheesed. lol

The plan is blindingly sinple, we send out the shits

hey francis, i would recommend sandbags or baricades in your kill box tunnel instead of fences, manhunter packs and enemy animals love to wreck the fences in my experience. Secondly, unpowered turret at the entrance to force enable collision. Third, remove the doors from your kill box, breaking pawns love to break doors if they can path a shorter way out through the doors as compared to walking back through the tunnel. If you remove the doors, they will turn around and leave via the tunnel instead(i.e. the same way they came in).

I wonder if the Fleshbeat Cannon is capped. How much Fleshbeasts a 2k psysensitivity pawn would summon?

"Hey guys, come here, Kevin is releasing a shooting traning target for us" :D

Great video 👍

15:43 "Female" and "gay"? did they change this to a shared tag or something? I thought males exclusively had the "gay" tag and female pawns had the "Lesbian" tag?

"Our colony's religion doesn't even like slavery", and yet the colony is totally fine to turn people into mindless undead monsters (ghouls) to fight for them forever LOL

WTH I have more than 1700+ hours in Rimworld and I've never seen that insect raid where they pop from eggs.

I don't know if having psychically deaf is a good thing on ghouls since you can't skip or buff them with it.

ive been thinking, are there any animals that would be cost effective to breed strictly to feed to the trees to than feed an army of ghouls, perhaps chickens?

So who is gonna tell Francis that the Prisoner he released at 36:30 was a Tough Yttakin? I mean it had Ghoul written on her forehead and Francis released her...

@25:36 - Lost opportunity to call it "Shit Zu" to keep the standard naming.

Blitz was a tough Yttakin. It hurt seeing you let him go after you just said they make the best ghouls.

Why don't you store the raw potatoes and rice inside the freezer? Don't they degrade on shelves?

justice for pantshit the ghoul

Has anyone suggested ATM ( automatic teller machines).

an hour of francis' war crimes is just what the doctor ordered today. Thank you FJ!

can you still skip your ghouls if they are psychically deaf?

Does anyone know how or why draw flesh beast always target the mechs?

For a ghoul shouldn't it be Shit Happen*ed*?

"He's an exceptional specimen for killing jedi" Smerk replies, "What's a jedi? I want more of me" Also, I'd love to see another lancer team from the mechanators

I wonder if the cloning would copy Lucy addiction on the clone

Came across your channel by way of ONI, and really been enjoying your Rimworld content. Grats on 100k subs, nice work friend.

Aaaaaaaaannnnd you still haven't provoked the void. 😂