Rimworld Alpha 17 #1 "An Optimal Start" No-Pause Intense Challenge! Rimworld Gameplay Let's Play 

"Felepas only got 3 bruises" Did not see his right eye is gouged out

1:18:45 "She's fine" She's naked and hauling chunks of stone around in nearly sub-freezing weather.

This colony looks so much better already, looking forward to it all going hell soon

No, I am getting hypothermia because my colonist is naked, what should I do? Maybe take the clothes off the corpses so she has something to wear and not get hypothermia because that is much worse then the deadman clothes debuff? Nah, let her freeze.

Watching you plan out your base is like watching Bob Ross paint a landscape. It just appears out of chaos.

just a thought, a quick and dirty animal skin tribal wear out of crafting spot would at least reduce rosales' nudity debuff.

"Is the electricity on, yes." NO, ITS NOT ON AND IT'S GODDAMN ANNOYING TO WATCH YOU NOT NOTICING :X :X :X

I didn't think I was going to enjoy watching these at first, but after sitting through the last 2 campaigns I am kind of hooked.

Hi Xavier, I have been playing rimworld nonstop after watching your first run. Its so good, I dont even watch or play xcom anymore lol. I am suffering through cassandra extreme desert, with tribal start, so painful, still dont even have electricity. I learned a very effective way for base defence. You should put doors along the deathpath, you can peek out and shoot, when they get near just pull back behind the door and poke out flanking them by another door, or let them run ahead and poke out again. More fancy would be double doors, one melee guy hold the inside door open, you can pull back very safely. Put roof above your bunker so you get in darkness evasive bonus. And when you replace the wall with stone I think you better off make it narrower, the raiders always hug the wall. I always make 2 wide and it works just fine, the AI still cant really handle it even with trap memory, I didnt even know about that before this videos. Stone trap deals way more damage than wood and flameproof. About the zzzt event, it happens when your batteries are full (>50%full) and too much power flowing. you can put a swicth by the batteries, when they are full turn it off, and no more zzzt. You should reserve a couple of emergency batteries for the freezer, so when you lost power the food wont spoil, and you will need more than 1 cooler when the heatwave hits. I found the way to defeat the heatwave, so my base design is like this, the central room is the freezer, and wrap around the freezer is hall way, which will be cooled by coolers by the main entrances, then I vent the bedrooms inward to the hallway, the heaters are also in the hallway, you have very well controlled temperature. The raiders love going after cooler, I always wall off my cooler also. I used to go wood at the start but now I start out straight for stone wall, it works ok, the first couple of raids are really tough but you wont auto lose when the base is on fire. I start with quite smaller base than what you have, its easier to defend, expand really slowly. In my last raid I was so out gun, hiding behind the stone wall and repair, turtling until some random travellers showed up, I think I have more visitors on road map, dont know if its true or not, luckily there was no sapper grenadier. And with wood I usually expand too fast and have too much wealth. I dont really know how wealth is actually caculated but I just leave the wood and chunk out of my stockpile, so they dont count, I dont know if that really works. This game is really weird, you dont want to do thing too efficient because when you get too rich the raid is too big, I just give away my silver lol, until very late game when my guys are armed to the teeth, the key is to play it slow. And one more thing, you should seperate your growing zones with 2 tiles wide stone floor so when a fire is out of control it wont burn the whole thing down.

squirrels are really badass in this game

1:18:30 "She needs to get warm" "She is gonna need some clothes" 1:18:30 So lets send her out into the cold with no clothes to grab a knife while she is at extreme break risk Don't get me wrong you're entertaining to watch because of the mistakes and how flustered you get XD

You should be aware that the lost eye makes felipe a really bad shooter maybe not the best choice for a hunter.

@1:02:30 you can split up your corpses by creating single spot dumping stockpiles, and assigning it critical priority, as opposed to a mass stockpile set to critical. If you have 6 corpses, split them up, 3 single spot dumping stockpiles at the top, and 3 on the bottom.

Build roof over your shooter nests, so enemies have to fire into darkness. It will give your guys additional chance to dodge.

Love the series man so fun to watch!

I have to watch at 75 speed to take in everything :) Kudos playing no pause challenge, I woulda died by the 3rd day

I love the pace at which you play and the "just get it done" attitude which seems to be much more effective than my Obsessive compulsive perfectionism. Just master the hotkeys now and youll be like a Korean starcraft player

this is a very funny run. love the way you rant. specially because at those foxes.

Early on I have to say this is a tad ambitious. Cramped interior is happening because the space is too small rather than bed placement. I believe a room has to be 4x4 or bigger to not give a cramped debuff but the room still counts as tiny if you check room beauty. Since you chose a grassland start steel is the most VALUABLE resource you have right now. I have done the same a few times and for some reason every mountain was full of components but steel was rare. You want to rush rush rush RUSH to deep drill tech and ground penetrating scanners. Get some tasty long term steel. I had to mine literally half the mountains on the map out entirely just to get to that point but now thankfully my steel is temporarily self sustaining. Buy where you can but remember they nerfed the fuck out of buying caravans off the comms console it's now 700 silver a pop. You need 50 plasteel for the damn multi analyser and some gold so you may have to buy those. At the least you can harvest plasteel from mech attackers. Please bear this in mind before you build needless heaters. It is also important to note they nerfed mining and crop harvesting. If you do not have a skill of 6 you will get a SHIT yield compared to before. If you have a mining skill under 6 mine some crappy non mineral bearing walls until your mining is 6. Otherwise instead of 35 steel you may get as low as 29 which is only a waste of 6 per node. But every node... say you mine 20 nodes that's immediately a loss of 120 steel. Which is. Immense. Especially with such a map devoid of actual steel deposits. It adds up and you can't afford to waste these resources. The same goes for crop harvesting to my knowledge and I honestly didn't realise they upped sun lamps from 1600 to 2900 power.... holy smokes. Of note each trap is around $100 in worth. So it really stacks up your colony wealth if you overuse them. Useful as they are though I go nuts lol but then I have a huge base. With all these your wealth will skyrocket so raid strength will follow and you'll wonder why 50 tribesman just wiped out your 5-6 colonists. I think you're going too big too soon again it could easily be the core buildings first. Then slowly work out from there ya know? Also the AI aren't dumb anymore... they'll go right through that nice wall or the sides of your killzone. Fortunately they do split up more though so if you break one front of the assault the rest flee. Also infections are much more common now even with well treated wounds. However they are also mercifully far less serious! On the topic of cold snaps you are in a 20 day grow period... that's 1/3 the year when the temp is high enough so yeah you'll get cold snaps even in summer. If you want to avoid this sit your ass somewhere around the equatorial line. I absolutely fucking despaired at your handling of Rosales mental break. She had a mental break then literally COLLAPSED due to hypothermia, exhaustion and starvation wandering in the cold. Then you order her out to get her knife without bothering to check her needs. I guarantee 100% if you'd given her some food and let her sleep before getting the knife she'd have been fine. Instead as usual you get a mood issue and multiply it by mismanagement. She broke TWICE she's not wandering aimlessly in the frigid wastes naked because she's stupid it's because she's literally had a second mental break and is "wandering in a daze" and yes hypothermia can cause serious frostbite. I'm surprised Xavier didn't flip when you forced him to manually put in unnecessary power conduits when he was literally exhausted and trying desperately to sleep. As for the arctic "fox" that's really an arctic wolf you can't hit it because you have literally shite aim lol like what... 3 shooting? Also has it struck you that you only have two exits to most the map? No side access? Your colonists are highly likely to walk past the rotting corpses to go get supplies and there's no wood left in your perimeter since you literally eradicated everything down to the grass. A final note here. Stone doors have a 45% open speed whereas steel has 100% and I think wood is 80% so stone doors can really slow your ass down if you plan on using them as doors.

So many waste : your wind turbine will be useless with a building (solar panel) in front of it, make torch instead of lamps (wich are true power drains). Godspeed for this colony. Love the tension of your no pause playstyle.

Challenge Idea try a Rimworld survive: 1. All have no skill at all (But all shall be able to use all skill). 2. No tech at start. 3. No of your 5 Starting characters may die. 4. No more then 8 colony member (max 7 member aim). Win: 1. Max all tech. 2. 7 Colony members most of the time. 3. Live in a ½ plus, ½ minus Temp C. 4. Take out at least one Red Skull camp.

If you click on "make copy" of say the sun lamp, it will show a outline of the current lamp that is placed. Great for when you need to see the outline for making walls.

Xavier, I don't know if You noticed, but in A 17 Sunlamps are turning off at night (automaticaly) and turning on at the same time -which is hen solar generators are starting collecting the sun :) and you will need 2 solar gen to 1 sunlamp. Enjoy :) Also - turn selfhealing on Christine so she can heal herself (on character tab at the bottom [it's only 70% efficiency but still]).

No pause ! Ok getting ready to see all the videos xD

The best thing you can do in the beginning to give you a head start is to deconstruct the walls for those dark buildings that spawn with the map :)

no pause this is a new challenge for Rimworld Ive seen FTL but Rimworld sounds like much more of a challenge

SUBBED!!! Great to find a decent player this soon after the a17 release. Look forward to picking your braingems

Hey, it's great to be back in action, and leave to see another day (or another episode). I'm just concerned about this pacifist Christine. Last time I had a freaking theory about her. Hope she's not on the creepy alien mood this time! PS: you just missed the perfect shot in the beginning of the game, since I'm an army engineer in real life!

Hey, now. No pausing, Xavier! 1:19:53

this one video has helped so much with me understanding the game lol

With this defence setup if you ever encounter pirates equiped with triple louncher , doomsday louncher youre pready much dead meat those killboxes are just too big ,not funelling attackers and leaving them planty of space to snipe you from afar in scenario where they will have couple of snipers on their side and no good shoters on yours , thats gotta be interesting to watch.What i advise to do is making killboxes as far as your hunter rifle or future assoult rifle range is dont ever think of using sniper rifles on killbox defence they are slow to reaload and get a penalty for fireing on close range if you insist on using snipers make available for them to use some spare gun or knife for short range battle .

9:14 "voila" xD

Your channel is awesome keep it up

Looking forward to seasons 2 and 3 in the next episode! Just pulling your leg ;-) I've never played this game. I kinda want to though.

You had forbidden the dog to enter the food supply and you never left it any food outside... :'( It almost starved to death. Went as far as incapable of walking once... Rosales could definitely be better off with some dead man's clothes, could you please first strip those guys before putting them on a body stockpile in the future? It's hard to watch all those clothes getting wasted, even if they're terribly devaluated because someone happened to die in them. Especially since poor Rosales is running around the whole map naked and hauling stuff in the cold, and then going nuts as a result. Man, even the prisoners in the German death camps had SOME clothes on them. I'm pretty sure they didn't really mind if their clothes had belonged to a dead person before or not.

Predator animals when desperately hungry will attack anything or anyone on sight so that they can eat. As for the naked survivor you could have stripped some clothes off those enemies you killed. (still get a debuff from dead persons clothes but better then freezing to death)

"I'm usually pretty happy" ... proceeds to puke guts out. pwned

You're certainly planning out carefully this time around! Why two killzones? I just lost an intense Randy Random (large hills) run, things have gotten really difficult, so I'm looking forward to seeing how you'll do. Keep in mind that short circuit events that target a battery (not a powerline) is going to obliterate your entire freezer (might even destroy the walls, those things are practically nukes...). They almost doubled the power need of the sunlamp?! (actually that's a net buff if you didn't micromanage the on/off switching before the patch now that I think about it). By the way, try to get pemmican going at some point, you're gonna need that to travel for quests later (regular food lasts 4 days I think, even very close events are likely to take 6 days to complete). Can you set your inventory list to organized? (one of the buttons in the bottom right).

I respect your decision to stick with the "no pause"-challenge and even though I think it kind of ruins the fun of a play-through series I do understand your reasoning for doing it. However, can I get my hopes up about you ever doing a Rimworld series without the "no pause"-challenge or is that simply not something you're interested in?

You can copy-paste settings from one stockpile to another to save time!

With the steel he had, he should of Built some Vents in those bedrooms.

Also, you can build you know, a campfire in the room instead of a heater right? Because we told you that last session when your plants froze. You can also heat up other types of rooms with a campfire, its not just rooms you are growing plants in.

I don't know what I am doing wrong, but I play Rimworld on extreme and I rarely lose. I mean, I lose lifes, but it's never a big deal. Just protect your experts and if you lack a medic, make one.

heater and cooler take components. vents just take steel. also, put someone on brick making and tailoring. ... wood colony vs incendiary launcher, fun times ahead.

Randomed a scholar/artificer, holy shit. 100% best combo for long play.

so much steel can come from the buildings and floors on the map

nice silver lining :D new season new patch! timing of that recent catastrophe couldn't be better!

Hello, you need only a single calefactor or more if temperatures get extreme colder and conecto rooms with ventilators to balance interior temperature.

Where are you from? you have the most fascinating accent.

Cold snaps in summer? Sounds like England.

i think this game should get co-op

no pause you mad man, what if you need to use the restroom, you animal!

more alpha 17 plzs!!

Your temp is in F.......holy shit.......I didn't even know that was an option.

what is this base design tho

All you had to do was give her clothes!

Look out for Work Tabs when it updates to a17: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=725219116 . It will reduce the amount of micromanagement so that it wouldn't be annoying anymore.

Hey apparently the difficulties are ramped up, like rough becoming intense, some challenge to rough, etc...

Why have the killboxes so wide? Wouldn't it take less traps if the corridor was narrower?

I don't know if you use mods but the allow all mod works great at unblocking items

you should go hydroponics, farming outside is not an option in cold forest

Hey if you ever get the chance I'd love to die in your rimworld series. Maybe Alpha 17 will be better off for the campaign

Why do you put the 3 stools in the storage areas in the kitchen? As opposed to where they stand to actually use the oven.

I'm surprised there were no short circuits.

But what doth life, Xavier? What doth life?

Cos xavier is actually a miss pronunciation of javier (hav ee are / err) so the x is like the x in xylophone

35:30 Why do you have two sandbags next to each other? Cant two people shoot through the same gap?

Do this with zombieland.

Hi first time in your channel and already subscribed. You need to learn a thing or two about rimworld but otherwise nice series ''no-Pause'' is really hard and probably something i will never do and i have 800+ hours of rimworld. Cheers From Portugal

Is this game difficult to get into? controls, gameplay etc.?

Dude you can copy and paste stockpile settings

what are thoose grey squares?

Rerolled because the female was gay? They had the same skills :-/

Xwynns here's a quality of life mod : steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=761421485 hopefully that should help you a lot :)

Lmao just letting you know xavier is pronounced "zay vee are / err" trust me my name is xavier

40:21 What's that on the bed?

Alpha 13 is alot harder.....

im pretty sure you have made the early game harder on yourself, with a non violent character and having no designated "pro" shooter

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and this is why i cant play this game the amount of bullshit u went through would have me smashing my pc lol

what is flick?

Do you use mods?

i dont see the point of playing rimworld at 4k, its like crying that minecraft got a lag for 4k. who the hell would actually care lol

FFS take a damn breath - chillax... your WPM is rediculous

I find the the counting thing he does every twenty seconds " 1234..5" incredibly annoying. If I was rioting against a dictator who made my father a political prisoner and police came forward with huge stereos looping this guy counting "1234..5" i would drop the protest and leave peacefully.

FIRST

F degree, ok I gotta dislike.

I didn't realize it was so difficult to not roll your R's. Kind of annoying listening to your half-rolled R's throughout the whole video.