Rimworld : Tribal Wizards ep 1 500% Hardest difficulty playthrough 

Just coming back here to say this is the greatest Rimworld series I have ever seen

A full year later and this series is so friggin good that I've decided to watch it again. Yes, you heard that right, I'm watching it again

Just finished the finale and wanted to rewatch the whole thing... god they really came so far. God bless you little murder munchkins.

Important ! Do not give titles to pawns with Greedy, Jealous, or Abrasive traits, they become incapoble of doing a lot of types of work at higer titles.

"We look for things. Things to make us go."

Not calling the clan Five Finger Death Punch smh

I'd suggest giving Thumb the honor from the quest, this is a good chance to get a very early psy ability, seeing how he's psychically sensitive he'll probably be able to make the most use of the ability this early on. If you're feeling gutsy you could try to ambush the empire when they arrive to do the bestowing ceremony. Either way I'm hyped about this new adventure!

As others have said, only some nobles lose access to skills. You can mouse overv their title and it will tell you if they're willing to be flexible about it or not. That in mind and given they're all going to get psycasts eventually anyway, you should give the honor to the pawn with the best social. Nobles are the only ones that can trade with the empire and the throne speech effect is dependent on their social skill. Alternatively, if you have an ascetic, they'll be best for a noble in a nomadic playthrough where you can't easily meet the room requirements

I laughed way harder than I should have at the handful of pawns pun

Nobles will not loose abilities as long as they dont have the Greedy, Jealous, or Abrasive traits (the documentation is vague on this). They'll still want their apparel and pretty room and throne room tho. You can get a couple of Nobles sharing those

Who'll win? A Centipede with a charge blaster Or one boi with a revolver?

Definitely give Ring the alliance honor. They'll be the most likely to buy/sell with their social skill/passion. If they get high enough they can give throne speeches which is based on social skill also.

I would build wood statues instead of stone. You can get it easily, they're much lighter for carrying around, they're much quicker to craft and they don't give much less beauty.

Yay a new series! So, I've done some tomb raiding myself before, and one thing you can do if you want is build your own door attached to the ancient danger (or even a trap maze), deconstruct the wall, pop the caskets, let the door close, then wait and kill whatever survives. Or just use it for reconnaissance. And since you can't research, there's zero point in using the techprints because you still have to do research to get the tech. So just sell them. What you want are techprof subpersona cores. Very rare in 1.2. Also, for royalty, I recommend having someone with good social. Because only knights/dames can trade with the empire, and social still gives a trade boost. There's also speeches for mood boosts. Excited to see how this goes. Good luck!

I'm rewatching this series because it is just that good. Que many comments to feed the algorithm

Rimworld Rewatch returns. Ahhh, the murder munchkins. How I've missed you. truth be told I watched this series first while ill so it'll be neat seeing what I totally didn't notice through the fog. By the looks of things I'm far from the first to make a return trip, and I doubt I'll be the last. I've said before, you make the struggle against Randy's... benevolence very compelling. This is gonna be a good binge.

This series! This series is what made me buy rimworld! Absolutely epic.

You're on my top entertainers-list (any entertainment), thanks for you work, loving every minute! :) Happy new year, and look forward to more fun!

Oooooh, this one is going to get interesting.... I want to binge-watch it already

Saw someone mention this series in a post online... had to check it out, first time seeing one of your videos, have high hopes, I love Rimworld so much.

This is going to be fun! Great idea for a playthrough. Will definitely be following this story till the end - bitter or sweet...

When I saw those mechanoids not going to lie I thought you were done for already, well played. Very interested to see how this goes since you play this game so well and strategically

I absolutely loved all of this series Francis, and the thought of premiering this was amazing, I think will all loved talking with you and the community!

This series is honestly still better than most things on TV. Very excited for this rewatch after finishing your Ideology run

There's a mod I want to recommend. Doesn't affect the gameplay, more for neatness. It's called 'Directly abandon settlement' and what it does is, it doesn't leave an "abandoned settlement" marker on the map where you abandon a settlement. It simply resets it to an regular map tile, like how quest maps turn into normal maps after you've finished them or let them expire.

This is an interesting take on tribals! I'm looking forward to seeing where this series goes

it always sign of good start when you let you characters wander around on map for hour and then let them sleep randomly all over the map. :D

Leaning toward giving middle to the empire for the meme Thanks for the video! Nomadic play gonna be fun! But i dont know about the no-research challange. You'll be under prepared in a lots of things considering how rare AI tech sub-persona are, even if you only aim for spaceship and stone processing.

FJ: grows rice Fans: wait, that's illegal

A body purist tortured artist would actually have been superb for getting crafting inspirations, it works not only on art, but buildings and equipment too.

"We can't have pinkie do nothing" Francis, do you have hands? Pinkies never do anything

Only now watching this but... 2:43 HANDFUL OF PAWNS !!! I had to pause the video for a solid 5min because I was laughing too loudly to follow what you were saying.

500% = 500%, but who could have predicted centipedes? Tbh, I think it went down pretty easily considering that the traps and the ancients did most of the damage. Great tactics, though. This is going to be a fun series.

Oh this is a neat idea. looking forward to watching how the series progresses~

It's nice to watch someone who is actually good at the game they are playing. Myself? I cheat like hell and stick to the the top 2 or 3 difficulties.:) So it's nice to see how you handle the hard stuff. Good job.

8 minutes in, and this is more intense than game of thrones

Another nomadic tribe. i love the way you play this game. much more exciting than my sticking in one please till die colonies.

I suggest accepting the first royalty quest as late as possible, because you can do some pretty fun stuff with the new bestowing ceremony you get after it from the title. I angered some thrumbos and then called the bestowing ceremony, because they bring with them some heavily armored people and good weapons.

Coming back to this for the first time since it ended. Looking forward to watching this series again.

I got really sick and kinda forgot this existed, but now I have 4 episodes I can watch in a row!

“Maybe I’m over preparing” - laughs at monitor 😂 good luck mate

I love how the language/words you use subtly change when you play Rimworld. It's highly entertaining to me for some reason.

I wasn’t sure if I would watch this but then you went immediately for the ancient danger lol

Play at 500%, get centipedes in the ancient dangers. I've seen speedruns like this before and I have been waiting for you to try it out, I think your going to enjoy the change of pace from your megabases. Keep an eye out for slaves at the different villages, they may be expensive but you wont take any time to break them and one of the 5 is going to be insta-killed by RNG eventually. I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to just ignore the nobles as the pawn you make a noble will always be whining for stuff while you are out on the road. If your going with one, id go with "Middle" as Nobles will gain social much faster than other pawns and dealing with pyro breaks (the only break they can have iirc) on the road isn't such a big deal. Pyromaniac also comes with a -20% to market value, so it may act as a modifier to colonist wealth and help offset the wealth gain from the fancy gear they will be wearing. a lot of comments are saying that "Thumb" would be good because of the sensitivity, but as your best melee pawn I would be worried that she would get popped by a centipede/scyther early on. also when you encounter the inevitable psychic drone, they will be almost useless. unfortunately they are also pretty, so your going to have to deal with the "Rebuffed by Thumb" moodlit on the rest of your pawns (she is the only female atm)

Oh fantastic, this is exactly what I was looking for! I kept refreshing the rimworld search trying to find something new, and here it is!

Ring. Definitely Ring. The psychic powers help make up for his lack of combat skills, and he doesn't have much really going for him either, so not losing much later on when he gains promotions.

Wow. the tomb raiding tech challenge sounds so fun.

Was it just me or did anyone else hear Randy laugh in the background when Francis said he may have over prepared?

I have never played Rimworld in this fashion. It sounds like it would be an interesting series. I wish you luck and am egger to learn more from your challenges.

Great to see a new playthrough! I like those "out of the box" cenarios you come up for the series, hopefully this will be an interesting one! (i still kinda wanna see you play a more "regular" playstyle maybe trying for the empire win condition of hosting the stelarch or maybe something more chaotic like teaming up with the empire and killing every other faction lol)

Fresh new Rimworld playthrough series! Yes please! Apologies for being late, I had guests. They're gone now.

I'm very excited to see how this goes! I honestly thought you wouldn't make it past the opening of the first tomb. I'm really impressed with how it worked out.

Yay more rimworld!! Perfect timing too i just finished watching your cassandra playthrough. Also, the one pawn whose missing their middle finger, they should be the one called 'middle' just for the irony.

Murder Hobos.... I'm finally watching the back catalog of RimWorld, and the DnD term of Murder Hoboing is what you're looking for here. Homeless, running around, meeting new people, and killing them for their shit.

4:28 Don't you mean techprof subpersona cores, not techprints? Techprints still need to be researched. Also, I found a loophole in your no research rule. If one of your pawns gains a title high enough to earn a permit(I believe that's the Acolyte title), you can call in a labourer gang and they can do research for you.

I'd say give the first psylink to Thumb. Psychically hypersensitive is great for casters. Also psycast levels from the anima tree don't give noble levels. So you can have a maxed psycast that won't chuck a tantrum when asked to sweep the floor. Could also chuck some nature shrines around the tree for increased psycast gain. Two mods you may like: Royalty tweaks which just tweaks a few setting so royals won't stop doing work and need slightly less expensive rooms (I think). Thematically its a good fit for tribals. The second mod is Giddy Up and Go.....makes animals ride-able. I love this mod and it makes so much sense for a shitty little colony to domesticate and ride animals.

Wow you got me excited already! Great idea for a themed game I love it :D

I'm so excited for this! Can't wait for every new video from this series.

blessed be algorithm for bringing me to new rimworld series.

Two warg start? No base? Tribals with automatic weapons? RICE INSTEAD OF POTATOOOOOES?! What is this madness!

"I would prefer not to have depressive" same...

I LIKE this idea for a playthrough! I'm stealing it, but with a couple changes for my own entertainment.

Simple sidearms is soooooooo good. I love it. I use it to give my pawns weapon setups that make sense. Like a charge rifle and a gladius.

Tribal playthrough: doesn't like a colonist because they can't install bionics later. *looks at 10th video* all their tribals are wearing marine armor, and using guns.

Techprof subpersona core is the vanilla item that can finish the research for you, not the techprint. It's really rare though so installing mods that give blueprints like Vanilla Books Expanded and/or Tech Sales might interest you. Interesting start btw! 😊

The techprints only UNLOCK certain technologies, you will still have to research them. As such, you will only be able to find techprints for research that needs unlocking (you won't find a techprint for, let's say Machining). What you're probably imagining is the techprof subpersona core which is MUCH harder to aquire (I've only ever seen them come up as quest rewards). Also, my vote for noble goes to Ring

Absolutely loving this series already. Tribal Wizard Fist!

But who hasn’t been stuck in Pygmy wombat fur talking about the importance of hoof hygiene with a group of elderly muffalos

thanks for the great content my guy

11:05 dat lazy AI. "I know there is something much more dangerous in front of me but "Oh god the player :O "

just found your channel (earlier today). pete complete recommended your video on killboxes and decided to stay.

I'm not sure you'll be able to research techs with those tech prints. The first one you get will unlock it for research and then each one after will complete only half of the research. On top of that, there are only tech prints for the advanced late game techs, none for any of the early game stuff. You will have to get a research table up at some point and have someone do some science. Of course, you could also get a mod to make it work like you expected/desired.

Thank you FJ! Seems like a very fun series ahead of us :)

Thumb, index, middle, ring, and pinkie, all appendices of the HAND Wow I just got it

Currently watching your biotech playthrough and this being one of my favorites I was thinking of combining the two. Nomadic polluting mechintor tribals. Hmmm. 🤔

devilstrand war veils offer pretty ok protection for the entire head

Man, your channel is so underrated....

i love the tribal start for the anima tree! this will be a good series

can't wait for "Big Toe"

Thumb since he is sensitive already and he is to be held back from the main fighting force. Personally, i would have called your group the wood-crafting liberation force, because we all know you going to be collecting all the dining chairs.

Oh boy, this looks exciting!

What a fun and fresh gameplay idea! looking forward to more!

I'll be that guy. The "traditional" (meaning min maxy way not the flip coin way) way to open early game Ancient Dangers is to build a tunnel and lay traps like you'd do with a killbox pretunnel. Depending on how cautious and how much time you want to spend on it, you make the tunnel length and trap amount to fit that cautious attitude. I was going to type it out, but here is a pic since I already had the game open. i.imgur.com/JNNRAVJ.jpg Obviously the marks on the walls are deconstruct points. The lone door on the left is for looping in if you need to or to shoot and trigger the caskets to fight the danger if needed. The shooters on the corner are for "encouraging" the enemies to keep going down the tunnel. And you have the option to deal with survivors by having a defense point if you want OR doing a ring around the rosey if the Ancient danger shape allows and using corners as you go OR setting up a melee ambush while your shooters move in behind the melees at the exit. If you have extra extra time, craft some clubs and leave them at the exit to switch to in case they are mechs and not bugs... because blunt dmg against mech armor. While not as exiting as the flip the coin method, I'm more of a measure twice, cut once kind of guy.

I love the concept and look forward to the new series. unfortunately I don’t think tech prints work the way your thinking. They require a researcher to use, give a chunk of intelligence xp when used, and they apply 50% of the research required if you have already unlocked their project, otherwise they just unlock it. I don’t think they appear for basic researches, mainly the more complex bionics and techs.

Nice idea! I'm also doing a tribal run but sticking to one place because the mech gods decided to give me a bullet shield I could build my base near :)

Not sure if I would call Simple Sidearms OP, it seems to be just an option to carry another weapon, as one does. ;) cheers, mate.

One issue I've noticed with the sidearms mod, when you are caravanning your sidearm is in your inventory, it's not considered equipped. This means it's possible to sell your backup weapons if you are not careful. I have done this several times.

Middle or Ring for the honor. I'm leaning towards middle as he can be a royal hunter swordsman that does art on the side.

My criteria for royals are 1. no Greedy, Jealous, or Abrasive 2. Social passion is ideal for speeches and trading with the empire. 3. since there are no Ascetics, or hypersensitives or joggers who meet the above criteria I would just go with the least useful pawn on the grounds that they will waste time reigning and on trading trips. So go with 'Middle' then, because he is slothful and royals waste time reigning better to waste his time than a more productive pawn. Use him for trading trips and he also has the construction trait which is intermittent work, which is ideal for royals. The great memory is ideal because social is impossible to maintain and so if you feed him a neurotrainer you will get more use out of it if he gets to >10 social. Also if he's out on a trading trip, that pretty much negates his pyromaniac trait. Also others are mentioning the psychically sensitive, I assume you are going to be making them all spellcasters, just make psychically sensitive person the one who gets to use the psygrass upgrades first and long term the psychically sensitive advantage will be used anyway. Psygrass upgrades on royals are a waste because they will get to level 5 by bestowing. I'd probably try to make your fast learner pawn your main crafter.

Quite the challenge, but after 150 dupes, what could go wrong? Have you considered taming Yak instead of hunting them? While they are bad pack animals, they are still worth 200+ if sold and quite easy to tame with only 11% wildness. They are mobile on their own unlike the evolved parts, don't spoil as easily and require almost no work until sold off. Also the numbers mod seems to work just fine with version 1.2 even though it wasn't updated. At least I didn't encounter any issues (while running more than 20 mods). Removing the compatibility error message is a simple text edit. And I highly recommend the "awesome inventory" mod, which allows for more rules defining what a pawn carries around, e.g. all my medics carry 5 units of herbal medicine, animal handlers carry 50 units of pemmican and so on. Not having to search for some items might come in handy for a truly nomadic setup. Stay healthy

22:08 Wow... Isolated much? Thanks for the vid Francis. cheers.

8:00 that is a mess, the safe and proper way to do it is first you chop wood and set the plan for a labyrinth of wooden walls and 2 doors in the side, and leaving an open exit at the end of the labyrinth, then you forbid it and set the wooden spike traps, once the traps are done you allow the walls and doors and they will be up in a moment, then you use a pawn to break the wall and then cross the two doors back out, the robots will follow the spike trap labyrinth and die, after that it can be reused for the humans inside the cryopods or any raiders if you make your head inside.

You can peek inside hidden rooms without letting out the inhabitants by deconstruction an inside corner wall diagonally. The wall just above where you went in would have worked.

2:49 Thanks for playing that bit. I don't know how many people appreciate that small little bit of starting music that will never play again until you start a new map. Hey Francis! A bit of a silly question: Do you play other maps on Rimworld(or even ONI) parallel to the series you show on RU-vid? Or are you too busy to be doing that?

I would go for Thumb. The psychically senstive trait is the most useful with psy abilities "it often acts as a modifier to the duration, and sometimes the magnitude, of the psychic effect." (wiki). Since Thumb is not Greedy, Jealous, or Abrasive, apparently he will still be able to do all works (according to wiki, never verified it myself).

Great idea, I'm really looking forward to this series

drugs are good for winning fights, and one of your pawns is insane at melee, the go juice would be good on them

Haha I love the Die Hard reference!!

Ah a new Rimworld series... FUCKING... NICE!

I'm sure you know this but you can 'peek' inside a danger by deconstructing an inside wall corner. It still wakes up the occupants.