welcome to part 8 of me starting and not finishing games So, I've been itching to start up a new Rimworld file. If you don't know what Rimworld is, it's a colony-building game where the main objective is to progress through technology through research (and staying alive) until you can build a spaceship to leave the planet you've crashed on.

I'll be playing the classic Crashlanded scenario since I haven't played in a while, which basically starts me off with 3 colonists and some basic supplies. Here is a full list of what we will start with.



Our story begins here, near the Cale Rainforest. If you care for the specifics, I chose this area for the following reasons:



The rest of the info chart is self-explanatory, so let's move on to our colonists!


As part of the crash-landed scenario, we start with 3 colonists. I rolled some decent stats for them and named them after Inky, Faffy and Tara, who were in the Discord at the time - let's take a look at them:


Everything is randomized, but I am able to change their names. I kept Inky's name as Sugar Osborne because that is a great name.

We have some crucial skills here that help form a well-rounded beginning team and will cover the basics of survival. Tara's skills in construction and mining will help us build shelter quickly early on - she also has great traits and will be a serviceable cook. The little fires next to each skill represents their passion for that skill, which will make them learn and improve that much faster and have a mood boost when they are assigned to tasks of that skill. So even though Inky is not currently as skilled as Tara in mining, he should overtake her in that ability very quickly because of how much he likes it.

You may have noticed an... interesting trait of his. It's not as bad as one might think, it just means he is going to be able to eat people without a mood penalty, but he'll be perfectly fine eating regular food. It will actually give him a hefty mood buff if he does get to eat people, so a colony of cannibals is actually very easy to keep alive and in high spirits - they can literally eat their enemies. The trouble comes with a single cannibal in a group of non-cannibals, because the others are going to be upset if Inky starts cutting up people for food, so he'll just have to not do that around them. But aside from that, there are really no downsides to being a cannibal.


Faffy is going to be the muscle here, with a very impressive melee stat. She's also decently social, which will come in handy for negotiations, trading, and recruiting new colonists. Faffy does have asthma though (I didn't screenshot their health tabs because everyone is healthy aside from Faffy's asthma), so it will be a medical priority to find her a "donor" for lungs.

We do not have a good medic yet, but Tara could become one. Luckily, during this session alone, quite a few transport pods crash-landed on our map, so we were able to take in the survivors, patch them up and send them on their way, slowly building up Tara's medic skills and also building rapport with the faction they came from. We could take them prisoner and recruit them, but we can't currently feed that many people so the game plan for now is to just use them for Dr. Tara's medical training so that she can eventually perform surgeries and organ transplants successfully.



And we begin! The first order of business is to set up a shelter and stockpile for our belongings, of which we do not have much. A side note, I live-reported a lot of food poisoning and mishaps in the Discord while I was playing, but I promise we're in good hands and I know what I'm doing - the early days before you have a proper camp set up is just going to be a little rough, but I left us in a good position when I ended, so things should be looking up.

Anyway, not two seconds after I begin the game, Inky hits on and is immediately rebuffed by Faffy, which is hilarious because right as the game starts, everyone actually has a bit of "Cryptosleep Sickness" after they crash land, so he was doing this while vomiting and trying to haul our supplies into a cave.


I should also note that while I can assign colonists to tasks and areas of the map, I have 0 control over social interactions, so any friendships and relationships that form (or don't) is 100% the colonists' own doing. I do have the Psychology mod installed, which gives them more in-depth personalities, and they will interact with and dislike each other based on these traits. Here are some of Tara's traits, for example:


We have a spacedog, or skiphound, as they call it in game. Her name is Isabel. She can teleport. Inky's pretty good with animals, so they form a bond quickly and he can train her to fight and haul things around camp when he is not busy.


I pick this mountainside to dig into for our base, for the previously mentioned reasons.


There is a spider cave at the top of the map, as I feared there would be, but it should be far enough away that it's not going to be a problem anytime soon. Plus, I saw a hapless raider looking for our camp wander in earlier and get absolutely decimated by its inhabitants, so it kind of functions as a bit of natural defence against raiders and people coming to do us harm entering the map from the top right. Just gotta be careful none of our own wander up there.


Not too long into the game, a young man invites himself into the PokeCommune - typically, new colonists take a bit of work to recruit, but occasionally one will just join without being asked, which can be good or bad, because you could just get an absolute burden of a colonist without the option to turn them away, and "getting rid" of a faction member will, again, give everyone mood penalties. Luckily, our new recruit's strengths make up for his incapabilities, so I name him Austinky and he joins the ranks. He makes a decent hunter and fighter, and the intellectual skill will be handy in researching new technologies. The minor passion in crafting will also make him good smith and tailor, when our weapons and clothing need replacing. For now, though, I task him with mopping the floors of everyone's vomit. Preparing food and eating in a dirty cave, as it turns out, has given everyone food poisoning.


By the end of the (IRL) night, we have 4 separate bedrooms (which turned out to be unnecessary, because Inky's advances finally pay off and he now shares a bedroom with Faffy), a dining room, clean kitchen, a freezer for storing food, and a makeshift prisoner's room (we had to take a few prisoners, but mercifully - Tara just patched them up and sent them home. The lung-harvesting will come another day).

If you'd like to be a part of my game, please see the 'JOIN POKÉCOMMUNE' tab up top!!

I'd love for more PC members to join! As mentioned, recruiting new members is a slow process, but ideally, I'd like to add as many of you as I can. If you're interested in seeing yourself in these updates, fill this out so I know your preferences and every time a new colonist joins PokeCommune, I'll randomize for a member and name the new colonist after someone here. Just leave a post here with the following:

Name: Format has to be Firstname 'Nickname' Lastname - most important part is the nickname, since that is how the game refers to you as (eg. Faffy is Fafrir 'Faffy' Dragon, and the game calls her Faffy), so if you don't care about your first and last name, I can just randomize that.

Gender: The game only has male or female, sorry enby friends :( Leave blank if it doesn't matter.

Age: a number

Kinsey Scale: 0-6. Leave blank if it doesn't matter, but the game assigns 0 or 1 to most colonists.

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There's a whole bunch of stats and backstories each colonist has (see: Backstories and Traits on the wiki for just the vanilla ones), but I think it would be best to randomize everything except for the ones listed above to keep it more fair.

Here is everyone currently living in PokéCommune. Expand spoilers for their traits and backstories.