History VideoGame / Rimworld

* ActionBomb: Boomrats and boomalopes, rats and antelopes that explode when they die. They were genetically engineered as a renewable fuel source, and feral specimens adapted it as a defense mechanism.

* AllianceMeter: NPC factions can have varying relationship values with your colony which can improve or worsen depending on actions taken like imprisoning their members or giving them gifts of silver. Those listed as "hostile" will attack you on sight, while those whom you have good enough relations with can be called on for help if you need it (on rare occasions they'll come of their own accord).

** Any colonist with a high "Animal" skill set can tame and train most animals, and, if you so desire, amass a small army of creatures able to do basic chores and fight for them in battle. A swarm of trained wargs, elephants, or boars can easily and quickly decimate large raider parties just as well as a group of pawns with guns, if you have enough food supplies to keep them all fed, of course.

** For battle animals, boars are king. They are omnivores, so feeding them is as easy as zoning them to grass [[FedToPigs or the corpse freezer]], they are faster than humans, hit harder than most animals, breed fairly fast and are easy to tame and maintain. It is telling that they are one of the few prey animals able to inflict lethal wounds on wargs in the wild (the other being tortoises).

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: ''Ideology'' lets you stuff human corpses into gibbet cages to decorate your base, break prisoners' will, and terrorize slaves into obedience. You can also extract dead pawns' skulls to put on display on skull spikes, which serve the same purpose.

* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Critters like rats or squirrels deal ScratchDamage at best, but their tiny size makes them very hard to hit even with crowd control weaponry, and the numerous bites and scratches accumulate pain and blood loss quickly. Encountering a pack of manhunting squirrels, as hilarious as it may sound, can be more dangerous than a pride of rampaging lions.

* FullBoarAction: Be very careful around wild boars. They are single-handedly the most dangerous prey animals in the game, due to being pack animals that can take down Wargs solo. A manhunting pack of boars can easily slaughter a colony faster than a pack of elephants and are only beaten in this category by Thrumbos.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Rats are depicted as dumb animals that can't be trained to do anything. In reality, rats are smart enough that they have been used to detect mines and lay internet cables. However, since the most basic skill an animal can be trained in Rimworld is guarding, having a rapidly-breeding army of guard rats would end most fights rather quickly.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Rats are depicted as dumb animals that can't be trained to do anything. In reality, rats are smart enough that they have been used to detect mines and lay internet cables. However, since the most basic skill an animal can be trained in Rimworld is guarding, having a rapidly-breeding army of guard rats would end most fights rather quickly.

* HomeNudist: The "Nudist" trait makes the pawn have [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl no body modesty]] and will prefer to walk around their base naked, even to [[DiningInTheBuff eat]] or [[SleepsInTheNude sleep]]. They lose the [[NakedFreakOut mood penalty they have for feeling humiliated when naked]], gain a mood boost when nude and get a small mood penalty if they wear clothes for too long (except for specific types of headgear and belts). As of ''Ideology'', nudism may also be mandated by a character's ideologion regardless of whether the pawn has the trait. Either way, they ''will'' put on warmer clothes on their own [[ExposedToTheElements if the temperature gets too low]].

* HollywoodAutism: One of the childhood backstories, ''Aspergers Rebel''[[note]]In this case, [[CivilWar a literal one]][[/note]] causes a pawn to be unable to do doctor work, due to their Aspergers syndrome. (Which includes surgery, [[NotThatKindOfDoctor despite the innate +5 intellectual skill]]) and gives them [[NoSocialSkills a -3 to their Social skill]].[[labelnote:full backstory text]]\\
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* HumanPopsicle: The resurrector mech serum allows you to instantly revive a deceased pawn, but at the risk of a permanent disability (including "resurrection psychosis", which will kill them again after one-hundred days). The risk starts at a base 5.88%, but gradually increases as the corpse decomposes (eventually reaching near certainty at five days). As such, should you wish to resurrect a pawn and are unable to immediately do so, put them in a freezer to keep them from rotting until you can.

* MachineWorship: The Archist structure tenet indicates that an ideoligion worships the archotechs as the true gods of the universe.

** The Sightstealers are similarly invisible, though not nearly as formidable as the Revenant, being one of the first monsters you'll encounter; they compensate for their weakness with [[ZergRish numbers]].

* InjuredSelfDrag: Since the 15 patch, humans who have are no longer able to walk (either by pain shock or losing their both legs) but still have control of their arms will attempt to crawl to safety.

* A lone mechanitor escaping the judgement of others to set up shop on a new world with a few robotic minion,
* A [[OurVampiresAreDifferent sanguophage]] running from hunters, escaping with a single minion,
* Or four researchers investigating a mysterious signal, only for their ship to crash and one of their number transformed into a [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul]].

Your vessel was in orbit around one of these undeveloped planets before crashing in an unspecified accident. As none of you were enterprising colonists, your group is woefully unprepared for this primitive and potentially hostile world. Luckily, your {{Escape Pod}}s are well-stocked with basic tools, weapons, and supplies, giving means to provide for yourselves. Rescue is unlikely, as it'll probably be years before anyone even knows you're gone, but perhaps you can find some way to get yourself back home--provided you survive, of course. There are also options to play as the tribal descendants of a LostColony who had survived from an attack from [[AIIsACrapshoot reactivated but malfunctioning robots]], or a BoldExplorer who is on an adventure on a remote planet in search of fortune and glory. Or, you can make your own backstory.

* NoNameGiven: If the malevolent archotech that serves as the ''Anomaly'' DLC's ArcVillain has a name, it's never mentioned. The entity is only ever talked about in the vaguest of terms, so even its basic nature can be easy to miss unless you pay close attention to the FlavorText.

* DeathWorld: The planet your colonists crash-land on is inevitably chock-full of hostile tribes, aggressive {{Space Pirate}}s, and wildlife that has an occasional tendency to go berserk. In extreme climates, you may also have to contend with a lack of conveniently arable land and the local weather: Extreme Deserts are scorching hot and largely devoid of life, but there are some patches of gravel where you can maybe grow small potato crops; Sea Ice, places where it's so cold that the sea has frozen over, have almost no wildlife and no arable land whatsoever -- all food must come from Muffalo herding, trade or cannibalism until hydroponics and moisture pumps can make greenhouses possible. And if all the above don't get you, there's solar flares randomly shutting down your power network, super-volcano eruptions darkening the sky, toxic fallout poisoning all life on the map, psychic rain letting your colonists age at a massively increased rate, and malevolent AI mind-raping your colonists or simply sending hordes of {{Killer Robot}}s after you just because. All things considered, it's borderline miraculous your rimworld is as densely populated as it is. By rights, everyone should've been long dead by the time you arrive.

** The very rare Psychic Rain event vastly accelerates the aging process of any pawn caught in it. While this won't affect young and middle-aged pawns all that much, older pawns (as in, 40+ years old) gain an increased risk of developing age-related afflictions like a bad back, cataracts, or the dreaded dementia.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Downplayed. With enough skill and luck, your colonists can tame and control any animal in the game, no matter how dangerous they are in real life, even the AlwaysChaoticEvil insectoids. However, wild animals have a "wildness" percentage, meaning they need to be continuously retrained to prevent them gradually forgetting they're tame and becoming feral, while domestic animals like dogs and cats have zero wildness, meaning they do not need to be tamed and will never become untamed. Additionally, only dogs and a few other particularly intelligent animals can be trained to do the most complex tasks like rescuing downed pawns.

** Manhunter packs always know where your pawns are, even if there're miles of jungle or mountains between them.

* TheBeastmaster: Any colonist with a high "Animal" skill set can tame and train most animals, and, if you so desire, amass a small army of creatures able to do basic chores and fight for them in battle. A swarm of trained wargs, elephants, or boars can easily and quickly decimate large raider parties just as well as a group of pawns with guns, if you have enough food supplies to keep them all fed, of course.

* EasilyForgiven: Ziggzagged.

* {{Fingore}}: Individual fingers and toes can be damaged or lost by injuries, though it's usually less of an inconvenience than losing a full limb.

* FluffyTamer: Pawns that get an Inspired Taming buff will get a 100% success rate on their next taming attempt. This includes thrumbos and megasloths, which are giant animals that hit like a truck when angered and have an ''extremely'' low chance of being tamed by normal means.

* HungryJungle: Jungle biomes are always hot, and colonists have a much higher risk of infection from various diseases. They're also usually home to dangerous wildlife.

* OrangeAndBlueMorality: The archotechs. Their mentalities are so alien and their goals so incomprehensibly vast that no human can comprehend how they make decisions. Sometimes they'll create infinite-energy batteries and artificial body parts that augment the user to superhuman strength and agility and then scatter these creations across the cosmos for people to use, other times they'll unleash horrifying monsters and emit angry psychic waves to try and drive entire planets insane from star systems away. Why? No one knows.