Provoking the void a few times : Rimworld Anomaly Ep26 

About the Revenant Flesh Chunk: The way the encounter is meant to be played (before you have a nigh-endless amount of flares, psi-casts, and firepower), is that you need to damage the revenant during the brief times it is visible when it attacks, and then hunt it between the attacks. After each attack, the revenant drops a chunk of flesh, which makes hunting it easier. The first chunk gives you more footprints to work with. The second chunk gives you an alert to colonists near the revenant (similar to the invisibility detector alert). The third and final chunk makes the revenant visible when really close to a colonist. So you use those hints to find the revenant when it is resting between attacks, and slowly drop his large HP pool, before it hypnotizes your entire colony. Or you you just stun it and fill it with bullet holes, like Francis does here.

15:25 Centipede 1: We've got 100 cougars coming this way, boss. Centipede 2: Jokes on them, I already gave all my money to that Interstellar Prince that keeps calling.

Francis: those other 2 are not boring. In fact, hexagon is bestagon

Within a few seconds you've found yourself saying "blindfold, actually very useful for doing operations". Only rimworld.

Devourers remind me of hatches. I guess that's why you fed them hot lead

One day Francis will have a million subs and the comments/credits will be as long as the content. The gaps between videos are gonna be immense as he still attempts to read every single one.

Ah, the devourer. My first experience with these creatures was when one of my colonists was caught outside by a group of them and then got eaten, followed by an intense and stressful battle of killing the rest while baiting their lunges with cleaner/hauler mechs and the ghoul. The eaten colonist eventually got spat out, missing both arms and with a shattered spine, close to dying. The devourers were defeated, and that colonist survived. But wow, what a frantic fight for survival that was. She's got one hell of a story regarding her bionic spine+limbs replacement.

yes, i read them sometimes. especially when one of them is named "Does anyone read the names"

Nobody asked, but the name of the sphere comes from Latin nocere 'to harm/hurt'), like in nocioception or nociception that is the sensory nervous system's process of encoding noxious stimuli.

Btw, I don't know if you've been ignoring some of those quests where they offer rewards in exchange for being able to dump a dangerous item on you (the way you got your first revenant spine) but you should keep accepting those. That's an alternative way to get one of the one's you've been missing. Plus, if you get more revenants or more strange corpses, that isn't bad.

So, in referencing my "oh god!" comment about the sphere last time, sent it against a raid of eighty tribels and it obliterated the entire raid in thirty seconds. Just evaporated them. The first response was when the first hit took out a chunk. The second oh god was when it just cleared the enemies. Then the oh no... was when it started to teleport hop back towards my base and people. It got one jump away before shutting down.

Francis: Pokes Void. Void: Pokes back. Francis: Pokes Void some more and giggles. "I'm in danger."

Wait, what? They broke the ball? Well, that's anticlimactic. I guess the lesson is that regardless of how shiny, cool and overpowered your new DLC toys are - nothing beats the ol' reliable centipede deathstack

Imagine getting an exciting new implant to help you work better, then finding out you got it so that your colleagues can EMP you for being naughty

Fire, Stun, or Vertigo Pulse makes Devourers kittens. Do NOT try to kite them. I always put my mechanoids in front too so they have something to chew on for a second.

As Xiaoer was resting, he saw VictorB coming into his cell with a smile on his face. "Don't worry, just a quick teensy-tiny bit of a hemogen extraction, my friend", he said. Xiaoer could swear he felt like a piece of metal was talking to him, but before he could say anything - he was quickly put to sleep as VictorB was connecting blood pipes to him. Nobody was paying attention, as prisoners were used to their daily blood extraction... or so was VictorB thinking. In fact, Blake was immobilized by terror, gazing how thousands upon thousands of enlacing metallic strings come out of VictorB's hands while he's giggling akin the drill perforating the steel... He knew who that piece of gray flesh belongs to. He knew nobody would believe him. But he still was praying to all the gods he knew that the colony would find the source. Because then... 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲!

One of the two void entities is locked behind a "mysterious cargo" quest, like the bodies that keep appering near colonists. The other one is unlocked provoking the void. The latter is nice, but the mysterious cargo one can be very entertaining

How long has the paramedic mech been named "EMH", I literally just noticed. I love the little Star Trek reference.

A few helpful tips: You can use the Water Skip Psycast to detect invisible revenants. (Finally more of a use for this often forgotten Psycast!) You can set Devourers on fire, and they will instantly spit out any swallowed colonists. (You underestimate the usefulness of fire in this DLC. Try out the Incinerator, can be used to safely fire over your colonists shoulders. Lots of things in this DLC are extra vulnerable to fire.) Devourers can not swallow 'large' creatures/mechs, so they may be more useful as melee blockers than your regular pawns. (Your Diablous being a good example.)

The Devourers eating Shits like a champ. The Nemesis of Elite Team colonies

Francis making me feel sorry for anomalies again with the Diabolus vs Noctol steamroll. That Farskip really helped by letting the Diaboluses let loose without worrying about friendly fire.

I started the series kind of late so i'm very glad that I'm caught up. I've been waiting on this episode for what seems forever. I live your channel and content, cant wait for further uploads.

Francis John 13:28 "the cougars absolutely wrecked them [fresh beasts] though." Patrolling groups of cougars are well known for wrecking young flesh when they spawn nearby.

I have been waiting SO LONG for Francis to finally face Devourers. I was so excited when I saw the thumbnail for this video. "Kill it. Kill it now." Oh god this is great shit.

love watching these its more fun than plaing it for me

I always love watching these videos. Or listening to them as the case may be. There's something so soothing and interesting to just listening to your voice as you talk about a game that you clearly know and care about. Whatever keeps these videos coming as long as you're not getting bored or anything.

Darkness is scary. Diaboluses: Nah, I'd win.

2:02 can we finally can adress elephant in the room?:P "what attacked him?" Darkness itself :P

I've done quite a bit of testing with metalhorrors. In dev mode, you can show hidden hediffs to easily see how the infection spreads. Any surgery from an infected surgeon, including hemogen harvesting, has about 1/2 or 1/3 chance to infect a patient. Tending doesn't seam to spread it from what I've seen. However, a doctor directly feeding a meal to a patient also has about 1/2 or 1/3 chance to infect them. Meals that have been cooked by an infected pawn can also spread it, but it's much rarer, something like 5% per meal. However, the meals remain infected even after the original outbreak emerges. Butchering does not spread the infection. Hemogenic pawns won't get it from consuming hemogen harvested by an infected pawn. In any case, from what I have seen, any human (including ghouls) can get it, but not animals or non-ghoul entities. It can infect colonists, prisoners, quest pawns, guests(e.g. downed guests that you rescued) and even raiders (such as siege raiders from eating infected meals). With all of this being said, here's the build I have come up with for sustainable shard productions from metalhorror. Essentially, I have a single cololist, ideally a sangophage or similar, who is in charge of spreading and maintaining an infection. Let's call that colonist "Patient zero" . Zones should in a way that prevents Patient Zero from doctoring other colonists. However, only Patient Zero should be feeding and harvesting the blood from prisoners (can be done with zones). Prisoners should be turned to nuggets so that meals be feed directly to them and not just dropped on the ground. Patient zero is also in charge of cooking meals to self-contaminate. Ideally, it should be a specific type of meal than nobody else in the colony can eat. For my tests, I used carnivore fine meals. Make sure only Patient Zero is allowed to eat it. Also make sure you have lavish meals in your freezer so that if one of your colonists go on a food binge, they have something else to eat. In any case, Patient Zero should only cook when you know they are infected. Disable the cooking bill whenever metalhorrors emerge and reenable it whenever gray flesh shows up. And that's pretty much it. You get a pawn that repeatedly infects prisoners with metalhorrors in a completely sustainable way. In my current game, I'm at my 7th metalhorror harvest. And I have all the shards I can dream of.

Vertigo Pulse s the ultimate counter to Revenants, because they can't hypnotize while puking

52:57 damn, the mechs got fatshamed.

I have a noctule who lives in the attic of my house. There is a Chilean comedian who told a joke at the most iconic event in the country and let's say that it did not go very well back then but now the noctule joke is taking over social networks. It made me laugh a lot to see that they included the noctules in rimworld.

Billiards tables are affected by quality too.

cant wait for what havoc golden cube gonna cause :D

You should always illuminate the inside of your walls regardless of Anomaly. As the saying goes, in darkness every pawn is a Depressive(-5 mood) Lazy(80% global work speed) with a Peg Leg(80% movement speed)

I guess Francis finally found a new challenge with the Devourers lol

The Nico sphere is actually a lot more effective against anything living with that black lightning effect. And the devourers are in my opinion the most deadly thing up to the “mid tier entities” especially if you get them very early and you don’t have much fire power yet. Killed of 2 of my colonies without problems on their end. They do most damage if the finish the 20 or 30 sec of digestion btw

devourers are will immediately spit out a pawn if lit on fire, hellcats are helpful

27:20 Alright, time for panic. 😨

Metal Horrors infected with Metal Horror, now there's a scary thought. 10k RP invasion of infected Metal Horrors. The post-battle tending alone could wipe a colony 😅

Perfect timing! I soo needed an fj episode rn

That anomaly sphere seems great. Definitely keep and maintain a couple of them for endgame

You let them spread out around your walls and go out in party's to clean them up more one at time style

Those Devourers are nasty!

two words.. firefoam trap.

Disruptor packs, Psy Stun. FIRE. these are all things that cancel the Devourer's eating.

With regards to solar flares during unnatural darkness - it can't actually turn off your power while the entity is in effect.

Ignoring the fact you're beating up our boss? No, we're cheering you on!

Great video 👍

Manhunter pulse is definitely going to get nerfed...

28:11 Name change suggestion: Full O'Shite to Tastes O'Shite

Oh neat a dont starve crossover Charlie seems a bit weak though

Yesssss, New episode

Also , regarding devoureres, they can’t swallow pawns with a body size larger or equal to 3 I think , so you can use a tunneler to body block relatively safely , same goes for centipedes

There is a mod for checking light levels on tiles: Light Map.. I use it to get darkness out of every inch of my bases

Good stuff!

Hey Francis, since it won't matter for this playthrough, here is a neat fact about devourers. they can water ascend. oceanside colony? 200 devourers popping out the ocean, worse then cthlulu. riverside colony with bridges and walls over them? the fuckers will swim right under your bridges and walls and ascend right in the middle of your walled colony. same with mechanoids. its just really funny to me that the fat blobs of teeth that devourers are fit below a standard rimworld bridge. since anomaly you have to fully wall in rivers and build a devourer killbox there if you want to use watermills for easy power.

One of the remaining anomalies is very entertaining. Won't be a lot of action for clips but I think you could get some good content trying to figure it out

42:00 so thats why the grey flesh from earlier was in the prison, good chance it did come from blake, tho still might have come from victor while getting the blood from blake

Note: it may have already been said, BUT - flamethrowers work when the shield belt is on! Let it burn, baby ))

I think the best way to defeat the devourers is to block your killbox's maze/tunnel output with ghouls and your pawns directly standing behind them. You used the same tactic to kill the cougars but you may need to remove some plasteel barricades so your ghouls can stand directly in front of the killbox's output. Might take a while to kill all but better than getting swallowed by them.

I deal with devourers by having 2 lines of mechs, ghouls and dogs in front of my killbox so they're blocking these things from breaching my firing line. They get swallowed but it's really no big deal as with enough shooters they get shredded up pretty quick

Devourers were indeed my first colony wipe in this update.

I was lucky that the first time devourers showed up I had some allies on the map. My allies were not so lucky.

I just sent my ghoul by himself in the darkness, the amount of regen and damage resist means that he can survive getting hit in the dark for a long time, and the noctils actually spawn gradually as you damage the monolith so he could kill them as they spawned.

Being able to just use manhunter pulse to make anomalies turn on each other feels too powerful and rather anticlimactic. I mean, sure, it spared you the chaos of risking your pawns if the incoming devourers ran out of ghouls to jump on, but it feels like it takes some of the danger and excitement out of defenses when a single pawn can just cause them to infight until there's not much left alive. The unnatural darkness scenario is a pretty fun one, and potentially devastating if you're not prepared properly for it.

I don't think rimworld can challenge FJ without mods anymore. Sure, outlawing psycasts would help, but the list of OP tools FJ has mastered at one point or another has gotten quite long. Mod recommendations for difficulty: CAI - 5000 killbox killer Just try it, even if only on a test map. Raids are exponentially more difficult when the raiders (and mechanoids!) start flanking you *through* walls. It should be mostly compatible with Anomaly by now, though I hear it makes certain entities behave a bit oddly. Save Our Ship 2 The vacuum of space doesn't play nice with CAI, but in exchange, you a difficulty spike in the form of ship to ship combat. Technically in beta, but it's mostly stable now. Zombieland Imagine having 100 manhunters arriving every single night. Then a normal raid shows up and blows a hole in your walls. Now imagine that some of those 'manhunters' are the special zombies from Left 4 Dead 2. Scenario Ammender Let's you edit a scenario mid playthrough, letting you add permanent and recurring game conditions like solar flares, darkness, fallout, etc. Incident Disabler Let's you disable incidents, such as the harmless negative incidents (one animal goes manhunter) and the positive incidents (resource drops, free recruits). Genetic Drift No more perfect children. The genes will never perfectly match the parents, resulting in unexpected and occasionally tragic consequences. Playthrough recommendations for difficulty: No psycasts. Alternatively, a hard limit that only sensitive sanguophages can be psycasters. Bonus points if only royals can be psycasters - no renouncing titles or other shennanigans. No Ghouls Alternatively, a limit to the number of ghouls. Fallout Vault Start with tunneler meme and a pit gate with no enemies aside from the walled off miniboss. Set storyteller to fixed wealth at max difficulty. Hide underground while the surface becomes New Australia, sneak to the surface to summon more pit gates and caravan for resources. Fallout Fallout: Game conditions of Permanent Nuclear Winter, Permanent Toxic Fallout, Solar Flares once a quadrum, and optionally recurring or permanent Darkness, start on a 100% polluted tile. Cube Cult: Embrace the Cube, even during the finale's. No Human Factions No human factions. No trading with humans, no recruiting human raiders. Bonus points if all incidents granting free recruits are disabled. Your starting colonists are all you'll ever get. If you start with only two colonists... good luck. Note that cultists can only be disabled in incidents, as they are a hidden faction. Note that the kidnap ritual does nothing if there are no valid human factions. No Trading No trading via caravan or trade ships. If you want something rare, you'll have to get lucky and/or quest for it. No getting assault rifles before researching SMGs, no plentiful shock lances.

Another episode!

I think the music of the outro is a bit loud in this video. I remember you said once that some viewers asked for a quiet outro so they could sleep nice :3

Because of your streams I always call the Apocriton, Acrapaton. Thanks.

So glad to see the devourers eat shit. Berserk is hilarious against them. They'll turn against other anomalies and will eat the smaller ones like metalhorrors.

It's a luvmachine. It's obviously made to make luv

Kiting or just splitting the devourers up works well. If you just leave the killbox closed they will all spread out hitting random walls then you pop out and kill 1 or 2 then run back in.

Diablos and War Queens are to big to be eaten by Devourer's fyi. I also see that LuvMachine is living up to the name.

I would like to see what would happen with the anomaly ball let loose in the unnatural darkness.

Face crimes against revenants are very serious darkotech offenses, I'm sure you're aware :) Almost as serious as Distractobull tactics and bulls having barter abilities

The Night is Dark and full of Grues.

Probably someone already suggested this name for machine But to be sure: "DeusExMachine"

More flares and flamethrowers!

Should have made FiveMachine into High five machine lol.

Francis found the anti ghoul enterty

For a second I forgot you called those Ah-crap-a-ton XD

The death sphere is no joke

Would love a few save files on this series Francis.. If you are able.. I still have no clue somehow on lot of anomoly mechanics... But love the series.

Wait so do you just have a bunch of infected bloodpacks now? Are your sanguiphages going to get metal horrors in them now?

Would be hilarious if Ludeon made the anomaly creatures immune to animal pulse.

That blood farm idea seems very inefficient, yes it works, but will it not give more time for an infection to spread throughout the colony? I was just thinking that if the first person who draws blood is actually infected, does the infection then spread from the prisoner to every pawn who draws blood after them? If so, the results could be horrifying.

Shame that Francis turned off the music because the new OST is a banger.

You need to do a no pause series....

“Raining icicles” - how cute

Anyone else notice that Shit Happens is actually a Trauma savant? I wonder how that happened.

With the invisible revenants, the manhunter pulse had the animation show on them. Didn't turn them manhunter, but the pulse has such a large radius, you could use it to hunt them down?

Fine

14:59 what if you used the death pall mortar and make cougar zombies fight with the mechs, thatd be amazing right.

Francis I have a question , since last time a metal horror popped out of a prisoner when they tried to leave the map. I wonder if you can arrest your own colonists and caravan them off the map as prisoners to check for metal horror ?

Your Luciferium may be getting a bit low, just in case it is, please check. Always good to do a check on Luci.

Man Hunter Pulse is Kind of Insane, I thought this end-game colony might have a threat. Really hope it gets nerfed against the anomaly

Is it even possible that Yunners could get a metal horror?

A note on the Unnatural Darkness : Anything that isn't under your direct pawn-like control is immune to it. That includes your mechanoids, raiders, trade caravans, flesh beasts... basically anything that isn't one of your pawns/ghoul is immune to it and won't get hurt. Which is quite a bit anti-climactic in my opinion. Also, if you get a solar flare during the unnatural darkness, it will not work, meaning that your lamps and electric furnitures will stay on despite the solar flare.

please god fix the alignment of the nuggets, the one next to the door is off and it is causing me disproportionate distress