The Worlds Of 40k! Death Worlds! What's Life Like On A Planet That Thinks You're FOOD! 

"I've seen Orks that look less intimidating." -Ciaphas Cain describing a squad of Catachan Jungle Fighters

Human's land on a death world with massive monsters: This is hell Ork's land on a death world with massive monsters: This is gonna be fun

"That's not a knife" - 'Carnifex' Dundee, Catachan Guardsman

"What doesn't kill makes you stronger...... unless you have your legs melted off by acid blood, then you're probably screwed" - Death world Inhabitant

I kinda want to see a Death World/Tomb World combo, where the danger comes from the Necron Lord who murders anyone who messes with his private planet sized garden.

Come on Arch, it’s not “Death Worlds”, more like “Super happy wacky fun time worlds!” if you happen to be a Catachan.

I would like to mention that Catachan is one of the few planets in the galaxy of 40k that does not need to worry overmuch about daemonic incursions. If past examples are anything to go by, the Neverborn, despite not having any significant nutritional value, get eaten pretty quickly nonetheless. Fighting the tyranids is probably a vacation to these guys.

I always love the idea of humanity living past all odds and growing stronger from it

"When I'm in command, every World is a Death World."

I think my favourite death world I’ve heard of was Gaier. Dunno how it was spelt but it was in a *hack* primaris marine book called Fist of the Imperium. Giant razor Jungles shrouded in fog, with plants that run around on their roots and vines. The hive cities were on stilts with giant flamers burning any vines or flora trying to overtake the human settlements. Awesome shit.

Thank you, and I really do mean it. I know you do not like making these videos because it will inevitably support GW. I understand how that burns at your soul and yet you continue to do it for us. I wouldn’t have found this whole story, setting, and universe without your channel. it has done more for me mentally and physically, then I could ever write. I was a mess when I got out of the military and this gave me hope.

Forge world boxes - you live in a box, eat out of a box, work in a box - it's all boxes. Got giant spiders - they probably taste good. The poison can probably be useful and the silk. The spiders never had a chance facing humanity.

Water Caste Explorer: *violently expels his own lungs* Nurgle: Oh! That's where I left the Eviscerator Plague. Thanks for finding it!

The other week, I was looking at a wiki to see what other info is there about Barbarus besides what I read in a novel. And I was flabbergasted by the fact that it's apparently not classified as a death world. The planet where virtually everything that grows there is poisonous, where the air itself gets too toxic even for primarchs if you travel high enough, plus during nighttime the air turns toxic even in valleys, and the planet was infested with some sentient xeno chaos creatures that hunted humans for the lulz, until Mortarion exterminated them. That was not deadly enough, I suppose.

I was listening to the book "day of Ascension" and it covered the mechanicus R&D, basically its like you said 1. have an method. Check records for said method 3. Test current method vs records to see if its an improvement 4. If it is take it up with highest ranked priest at location.

Vulkan being on Catachan: "I want to BOOP the snoot!"

5:51 is why I like arch. It's just so fun(sometimes) listening to him describing stuff.

I've always been fond of the idea of using Catachan Barking Toads as bombs to drop from aircraft ever since I heard of them. It was inspired from the "Bug Drop" from Starship Troopers Roughnecks where they used a sedated Plasma Bug as an impromptu MOAB essentially.

18:00 with hydroponics you dont need that much when it comes to width, just make a skyscraper thats a giant vertical farm and also extend it below ground.

I imagine that in order to “extract” barking toad venom you would have to throw a stasis gernade at it then figure out how to put a sealed container around the stasis field.

All the talk of Catachan made me realize the women of that planet could probably crush an Orc's head with their thighs.

If I remeber correctly there is a manmade death world where a nobleman bild a zoo of most dangerous animals he could find and they escaped the zoo, started interbreeding and killing everything in their path.

Arch is lore. Arch is life. Thanks for getting me through work mate.

I sure do love it when you cover the non canonical worlds in the non canonical sector controlled by the non canonical faction in the non canonical millennium where there is only non canonical war

Some of these worlds make you look at the Chaos cultists and say “Ok. I get it now.”

Kalifornyanya Death World. Recruitment world of the infamous Sussy Bussy Marines.

Harry Harrison's Death World trilogy. Another bit of Sci-fi GW "borrowed" from, but one much less talked about.

Deciding humans are tasty snacks is usually a sure fire path to extinction. I mean pretty much every animal on earth that said that has been or is on the endangered species list. Some of them made it to the extinct specie list. We are humans, possible the most dangerous combination of intelligence, stubborness, and spite to ever exist.

"Visit beautiful Catachan. Your final destination, guaranteed!"

I'm from The Bleak deserts of New Mexico it's basically Earth's equivalent of the deathworld. We've been nuked thousands of times! If you live here you have to deal with the threat of mutant gangs and giant insects constantly.

4:35 - Ah yes, THAT one. 8:33 - Where the Vikings in space have their home. 9:10 - (monotone) All hail the Ultrasmurfs. 9:50 - Ah, the regiment full of Rambos. 15:44 - Didn't you describe it as recycled s***? Nocturne (Salamanders) is another well known one.

Never understood why Nostramo was not considered a Death World while Caliban was. The only problem with Caliban was the Beasts, which were just not that big a problem. Most of them weren't as dangerous as a dragon in other settings, and the planet itself was basically just medieval Europe. Nostramo was a perpetually dark hive complex with terrible pollution, a crust made of adamantium, and a populace that routinely ate one another out of desperation.

A cozy and cuddly place for your next vacation.

Ahh yeah Deathworlds sounds like the experience one has when visiting other "Lore Channels" that go : Female spacemarines good , Lore bad. i think i might wish for a deployment to Krieg before visiting that place again atleast on Krieg you know you have loyalist forces around you without violent cultists yelling at you.

I've always loved your background music, it tells me in a subtle way that it's time for some interesting lore with a wacky norwegian beardsman

I'm not massively familiar with the lore, but I always suspect that Catachan at least, if not the whole 'Death World' concept, is at the very least heavily inspired by Harry Harrison's eponymous trilogy starring Jason dinAlt.

Given the "new" imperial knight households taming the wilderness, are there any ex-deathworlds?

Its funny. I think Harry Harrison is the first o use this specific name for deadly worlds. But not single wiki or trope dictionary regarding DeathWorlds mentions his name or said trilogy

“The imperium has a habbit of turning paradise worlds into death worlds.” I just realized that if JRR Tolkien lived long enough to read about a Forge-worlds or Kriegs backstory he would have felt vindicated and then horrified.

The Bodyguard Ogryn in Darktide loves death worlds

Mr Arch, when The Old World will be release, could you analyze the design and lore of each new unit (practically almost all), especially Kislev and Cathay ? By the way, what do you think of the latter, what impression did it make on you?

This could be an Incredible Colony Simulator. Imagine the following: Every world is randomly generated, with certain traits such as „the sun is melting us“, or „Giant fucking Scorpions“ And you have to build a base for your colonists to survive, and E X P A N D.

You have the most funny lore videos I've ever seen. My favourite is about demonkilla

It's unbelievable that RU-vid just buried the original 40k lore master. But to all the real fans they know where to come

Catachan is the only world in the Imperium where a chaos invasion can and has been quelled without any action taken by the local humans. It is THAT fraking deadly.

Man, good thing I cam home early, managed to catch this just in time!

Verry nice to see you back Arch, with more storys of greatness ! :)

Ahhhh it's nice to see actual lore

“And not just any mahogany; mahogany from the planet of Melchior VII! Where the trees are three hundred feet tall and breathe FIRE!”

“No wonder the Death Worlders are so tough … they have to be, considering the food.”

I like the idea of a mining planet going all _A-Team_ on the local fauna with improvised armoured vehicles and an effectively-limitless supply of explosives 😀

"On certain world, lunch migh disagree on who's being added to the menu"

*Catachan barking toad shows up* Vulkan wants to boop the snoot...

Not long ago I read an old book series called Deathworld about a very similar style of planet and people... no relation I'm sure... or any correlation with the Bolter-esc weapons used within...

Just to make sure: the planet Murder(One-Forty-Twenty) from Horus Rising, would that be considered a death world ?

It's the planet form of New Jersey

I like that in the underground example Arch is almost describes deep rock galactic’s minning teams

Good stuff , thanks for sharing this

I think this one of my fav lore vids so far!

Ah yes, a new Arch episode, while I'm being an asshole in Bannerlord, most exellent~

But lord arch, a krak grenade bouquet in the tomatoes would be a way to either, 1. Teach the megs herbivores NOT to eat that kind of plant or 2. Put meat on the menu for a good long while.

Can’t believe you didn’t mention False Hope & its “god-plant” from the Thirteenth Legion novel. Easily the most inventive Death World in 40K.

My deafness made me think you said "Catachan Parking Toad" at first.

So basically its Australia, but you can't escape

Love these lore videos and the amount of games they could make with these would be infinite if GW knew how to market and promote the setting.

I kept thinking with a fox during the in a box segment with a twisted doctor seuse image in my mind. To quote ghost busters it just popped in my mind.

What is that Catachan Toad?? You should realy make a video about Catachan Wildlife and flora. David Attemborough style!

Wait, Fenris and agriculture? I've always thought it was a frozen hellscape, like Hoth in Star Wars.

Woot. Actually notified in a timely fashion.

For some damned reason, this wasn’t showing in my subscription feed!?!? So here’s a like and a comment just to spite whatever damned reason that this “glitch” happened.

Arch, the best parallel of a death world with something in out planet would be "think about Australia and its biome, now make a planet out of it"

Love the old GW box art

I thought the barking toad was a Text To Speech joke, not an actual lore creature.

When my rogue trader group found a world with giant kaiju monsters we called in a bombing run to dislodge it from the archeotech facility it was nesting on top of.

Btw is it explained anywhere where all of these habitable worlds came from? Did golden age humans or other races terraform them? Or is there just so impossibly many solar systems that there is enough earth like planets?

Earth is a Death World. We just got used to it.

Barking toad chem launcher sounds terrifying like a local life eater bomb.

Digging caverns for farming/hydroponics seem a very good idea - as this would be very controlled enviroment.

Thanks. Always enjoy these.

i wanna say one thing the biggest problem with lore.. is the fact the barking toads are not merely gathered up and dropped like bombs SMH

New headcanon: the magos biologis just wants to be booped.

Wtf is a Catachan barking toad🤔🤔?!?!? I'm picturing a toad the size of a Hippo with a venomous toung!!! 😅😅😅

A lore Chanel with lore not arguments on why it doesn’t matter what a novel innovative approach. Thankyou for the content

Still better than California

If you put a catachan on a peaceful paradise world. Would he like it and adapt or would he go insane from all the fluffy nice peaceful things around him?

“This is Phaedra”, Counterpoint, interesting novel. Near death world dominated by fungus based life.

You don’t fool me Arch. I know that the underground spider fighters you thought of is just Deep Rock Galactic! ROCK AND STONE!

Love Arch. Wish I had enough money to buy GW and make Arch the master of Lore and continuity.

One thing I don't get is how did they manage to overlook civilian life so much in 40k.

What I really want to see from Arch is a video about the mysterious places of the Warhammer World that have practically no lore or very little lore. The Lost Isles of Elythis (Warhammer Australia) and their High Elf colonies, the Hinterlands of Khuresh with the Lost City of the Old Ones located in it and the mysterious Snakemen living there, the Ancient City of Quintex in the middle of Naggaroth, the Southern Chaos Wastes and the Beastfiends inhabiting them and the Gates of Calith. Come on Arch, listening to you speculating about these places would be more interesting than any lore GW might write about them if they touch these places in the Old World. When it is released at some point in the next century...

I have to say that I enjoyed the Death world novel with Lorenzo and the other guys, especially because Sly Marbo showed up!

Deathworlds in 40K: numerous, varied, scattered throughout the galaxy. Deathworlds in real life: everywhere but Earth

Damn it Arch, each time you make a video im left wanting more on tge topics. What are the giant trex what els is on that planet, how do these soldiers survive what is the logistic, what is the life expectensie. Fuck me i love 40k 🤣🤣🤣

I keep thinking the guy in the background with the three green eyes looking back saying to himself “did I just hear something heretical?”

Lore for the Lore God. Stories, for the Story Throne!

"How do you kill a T-Rex the size of 7 hab blocks".....artillery?

Ah, Fenris. The galaxies favorite pet shop!

Now this is proper lore, Propa WH40k Lore. Not what that gitz Templinz fanfiction shit is trying to peddle.

"Just encourage them to breed" Slaanesh in pleasure moaning voice: "yeeeeeessssssssss"

So... basically Australia in space. Damn, that sounds scary when I say it out loud.