
Be wary of choosing a spot too near water, marsh or mud, as you won’t be able to build on these squares until much later in the game, after a significant amount of time has passed. What is an ideal spot for a base, anyway? Well, it very much depends upon your chosen map square, but aim for an easily defensible spot - a clearing surrounded on many sides by mountain or river. The spacebar pauses the game and number 4 can be used as a special speed to get you through the night. If you want to speed up time during this process, numbers 1, 2 and 3 control the speed. If you’re playing with the Fog of War mod, this means drafting each colonist (click the crossed swords icon with all of them selected) and sending them off to each corner of the map to reveal the area.

The next thing you want to do, after letting your colonists eat some food and vomit a bit, is check out your local area for an ideal base-building spot. If playing with the Fog of War mod, early exploration is vital to finding resources.

Give any ranged weapons to the best shots and any melee weapons to those with the best melee stats, by right-clicking the weapon with them selected to make them pick it up. Now you’ll want to give your colonists weapons, so select each colonist (either with their portrait or by clicking them on the main view) in turn, select the ‘Character’ tab on their info panel and check out their top two stats. As cute as they are in real life, they’re nothing but emergency rations and sofa material in RimWorld.) If you’re unlucky, you’ve ended up with a cat. ( Note: If you’re lucky, you might notice you’ve started with a dog. To fix this, go into the first tab at the bottom of the screen, ‘Architect’, select ‘Orders’ and click ‘Allow All’ (or use whichever allow tool you have available - some require click and drag). All of your resources will be scattered about the map, but they’ll be forbidden to start with, which means your colonists can’t pick them up or interact with them. Welcome to the second of our RimWorld guide topics, covering some of the essential tasks you should complete when you first found a colony.Īs soon as you land on the planet and can see your colonists, pause the game.
