Recently I got back into #Rimworld.

Recently I got back into #Rimworld. While I love the game, the DLCs sound unappealing to me, overcomplicating an already complex game.

If I buy one, which one should it be and why? What are your features you can't play without?

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@bezekium I have biotech, gravships, ideology, skipped royalty.

I really love ideology because it brings variety in roleplay. You can play the darkness-loving tunnelers who hate being outside in the daytime, or the cowboy ranchers who venerate sheep and cuddle trees. It never gets boring, especially with community-modded ideologies.

With biotech, you can make the tunnelers properly blind, or the cowboys firebreathing. Or create a race of winged dragons. Also, robots who do the cleaning!

Both add-ons together work really well, roleplay wise. I wouldn't want to miss either one.

The gravship addon makes rimworld a completely different game because you can have a mobile base and it adds space. Great addon, buy when you get bored of the main game.

@lizzard wow, I had no idea. That sounds much cooler than the features they're advertising thank you for your long reply!

@lizzard wow, I totally missed the release of gravships (it's Odyssey, right?). Sounds very cool 🤩

@bezekium yep, that would be odyssey. In the case that the DLCs sounds too expensive, though: there's a lot of content and quality of life to be had from mods, too. So if you haven't done so already, that's also worth a look, or two, since there's so many!

@lizzard the DLCs are somewhat expensive, especially, since there are five and they are never highly discounted. Then again, Rimworld is a game I love and put a lot of hours into. I think I will go for Biotech, Odyssey and Ideology in the next sale

@lizzard Oh yes, I love mods. I won't play without the fridge mod. Can't be arsed to build a whole room and set up the cooling for food.

@lizzard I now bought the base game again and the three mentioned DLCs via the official website. So now I have a DRM-free version (and Steam with easy workshop access) and it cost only a little more because it was billed in US$

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@bezekium yeah! Have fun! (And remember: Dying is fun! 🤭)

@lizzard after playing the Gravship scenario for over 40 hours, I created a rough version of my dream Gravship with dev tools and will try to rebuild it in my savegame now. (floor mounted fuel tanks and gravship storage mods are so cool).

I will also start a separate save to get accustomed to Ideology (which is mostly a mood debuff for my pawns right now ). Also, I can see the Biotech DLC becoming much more than a vacuum bot mod replacement.

Thanks again for the recommendations!

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@bezekium wow, you're playing this much more methodically than me! (But then I rarely get to play more than an hour here, an hour there nowadays)

I really like that ship layout. I've never used dev mode, just never occurred to me.

You just inspired me to come back to rim world. I've been playing around with Elin the last few weeks, which is nice and also very complex - and can be much more cozy than the rim. But an even larger time waster 🫣

@lizzard I just looked up the game! Stunning visuals Sounds interesting but I'm a bit concerned about it being described as "roguelike". So you lose your progress when you die? Can you save at any time? I would love to try it some time.

Keep me posted about your adventures on the rim

@lizzard by the way my actual ship, WIP

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@bezekium hah, cubism! 🤭