Hey everyone, we've teamed up with FanGamer to bring you a new wave of RimWorld merch! (And three makes the perfect start.)

All items are available now on the Worldwide store[fanga.me] and the EU store![fanga.me]

The new FanGamer collection includes:

• Wisest Creature T-Shirt: Soft, thrumbo-grade apparel, plus a unique Thrumbo stamp sticker.
  
• The Storytellers T-Shirt: Featuring Cassandra, Phoebe, and Randy, as well as a RimWorld logo sticker.
  
• Home Base Desk Mat: 35x16" of colony to play on. (Hidden conduits only.)

Hope to see you in the wild wearing these!
Ludeon Studios

Hi everyone, the official RimWorld merch store[rimworld.store] is live, but only until Jan 9, 2025!

We're sending out transport pods with our new Randy Random hoodie, muffalo plush, megasloth plush (plus wool), and RimWorld sticker pack!

They're all available here: https://rimworld.store/

And a little reminder that you can keep up to date with all things RimWorld on our X, Reddit, and website[ludeon.com].

- Ludeon Studios

Hi there, we're back with the Terraform Titans Duo where you'll get the ultimate survival and strategy experience!

With Oxygen Not Included and RimWorld, you'll master resource management, build intricate bases, conquer hostile planets and face unpredictable challenges. These two critically acclaimed games offer endless hours of creativity, strategy, and survival in harsh, off-world environments on the soil and in the stars!

Get 20% off with the bundle! And if you already own one of the games, get 20% off the other!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46465/Terraform_Titans_Duo/

Oxygen Not Included: Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

RimWorld: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

RimWorld turns 11 years old on November 4th! To celebrate, we’re holding a birthday community event to showcase all things RimWorld. 🎂

Everyone that participates (and follows the rules below) will be entered in a random giveaway for one of three sets of YouTooz’s War Queen figure and RimWorld pin sets![youtooz.com]

We've also got a small update for RimWorld in version 1.5.4241, and the changelog is below.

Thank you so much for continuing to support and show your love for our game over the last decade.
Happy birthday RimWorld! 🎉 - Ludeon Studios

By participating in our birthday event, you’ll be entered in a random giveaway to get one of three sets of YouTooz’s War Queen figure and RimWorld enamel pins![youtooz.com]

Please read all of the event rules and giveaway details before participating.

• 1 entry per person.
  
• To participate, share your RimWorld creations with us! It can be RimWorld fanart, in-game screenshots or gameplay videos (vanilla/non-modded content only), writing, and other creative media. Share it with us by replying to the X @LudeonStudios birthday post or share a link on the official RimWorld birthday Reddit thread. All submissions must be human-made works, no AI-generated content permitted.
  
• Participation closes on Oct 25, 11:59PM Pacific. Giveaway recipients will be announced on [EDIT] Tuesday, Oct 29 on Twitter/Reddit by TiaPixel.
  
• Those selected for the giveaway will be contacted on Twitter/Reddit by TiaPixel (and no one else, be careful if someone other than TiaPixel reaches out).
  
• You must respond before Oct 31 or someone else will receive the giveaway.

Here are some ideas/inspiration if you'd like to participate, but don't know what to do. (Of course, you're not limited to these!)

• Birthday themes: Birthday cakes, party decorations, presents, and joyful celebrations!
  
• Screenshots: Colonies/bases, individual rooms (throne rooms, ritual chambers, war-torn battlegrounds), and interesting events (weddings, rituals, intense battles, hilarious moments).
  
• Artwork: Illustrations of your colonists, pets, mechanoids, xenotypes, ideoligions, etc. Comics depicting funny in-game moments or stories of your colonists. Speedpaintings of your artwork.

• 1 set of the YouTooz War Queen figure and YouTooz RimWorld enamel pins will be randomly given to 3 different participants.
  
• Note: YouTooz is unable to ship their merchandise to certain countries, please check yours before participating: https://youtooz.com/pages/shipping-policy

RimWorld and the expansions Biotech, Ideology, and Royalty are all on sale until October 18!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/

• Improve performance of "need warm clothes" alert with large numbers of clothes in stockpile.
  
• Moved "CausedBy" translation key to core.
  
• Insect jelly will now be deprioritized when selecting caravan food.
  
• Disable room space need thoughts when asleep.
  
• Smoke launchers, incinerators, and gunlinks no longer have qualities.
  
• Re-flavor royal titles.
  
• Allow timbershrooms to grow on polluted ground.
  
• Allow prisoners to be downed for prisoner sacrifice and execution rituals.
  
• Updated creative rewards content.
  
• Updated translations.

• Fix: Dev palette cached incidents being skipped if target is the wrong type.
  
• Fix: Hard-coded formatting on injury label in brackets for body part sources.
  
• Fix: Copying colonist ScenParts with configurable lists edits in-place instead of copying data over.
  
• Fix: Wall torch has inconsistent max fuel compared to other similar buildings.
  
• Fix: Brain isn't properly destroyed by execution cutting on deathless pawns.
  
• Fix: Electroharvester has flipped graphics.
  
• Fix: Pawns without reading policies producing error when prisoners have joy need via mods.
  
• Fix: Randomly scattered things don't retain quality from scenario config.
  
• Fix: Shamblers not able to walk through open doors in some circumstances.
  
• Fix: Coagulate can be used on pawn with no tendable hediffs.
  
• Fix: Hunting work site generation can cause errors with modded games if leatherDef is null.
  
• Fix: Global learning speed factors do not appear on skill tooltip.
  
• Fix: Missing eyepatch drawn over blindfolds.
  
• Fix: Some anomaly debug actions visible without anomaly active.
  
• Fix: Breastfeeding moms dropping babies if no bed.
  
• Fix: Healer Mech Serum prioritizes sterilized over mental ailments.
  
• Fix: Having bloodfeeding and cannibalism memes sometimes generates an ideoligion with no positive cannibalism precept.
  
• Fix: Misconfigured distRange on SubcoreEncoder_Working sound.
  
• Fix: Exception ticking mothballed world pawn.
  
• Fix: Room size space calculations can add cells from outdoor locations.
  
• Fix: Error if simulate killing unspawned pawn with a shield.
  
• Fix: Deconstructing firefoam popper with auto rebuild on places a blueprint on deconstruct.
  
• Fix: Ascetic pawns judge others for their appearance, contrary to trait description.
  
• Fix: Deadlife shamblers appearing on schedule.
  
• Fix: Ideology buildings not respecting interaction spot overlap.
  
• Fix: Anima Tree artificial structure radius inconsistencies.
  
• Fix: Incorrect wealth calculation on buildings with def-defined base market value
  
• Fix: Sanguaphage meeting quest not completing if join offer is postponed.
  
• Fix: Error in inspect string when saving game directly after a pawn has used a verb.

Hey there, we're excited to share that our majestic vinyl War Queen figure[youtooz.com] and RimWorld enamel pin set[youtooz.com] are now available on YouTooz for the next 4 weeks!

War Queen vinyl figure[youtooz.com]: We sent out a signal pulse... and a War Queen responded! She'll make a great addition to your colony at home.

RimWorld enamel pin set[youtooz.com]: Features 5 RimWorld-themed designs including:
- RimWorld logo
- "Ate without table -3" thought
- Crashlanded colonist
- Scyther
- Thrumbo

We're also running a birthday month sale for RimWorld and its expansions until Oct 18. 🎉

https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/

• RimWorld
  
• Biotech
  
• Ideology
  
• Royalty

Long live the War Queen!
- Ludeon Studios

Hi everyone! Our new Steam bundle lets you experience the best of city-building and colony-building with Foundation and RimWorld!

Relax in Foundation as you create sprawling medieval cities with free-form tools and watch as your villages live organically in their world. Dig into RimWorld for an immersive story experience as you grow your colony and survive!

Get 20% off with the bundle! And if you already own one of the games, get 20% off the other!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/43256/RimWorld_x_Foundation/

Foundation: Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

RimWorld: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Hello! We're launching a bundle that combines two classic colony-building simulators: RimWorld x Necesse!

Develop your settlements and explore procedurally generated worlds. Go from fighting raiders and sentient robotic beasts to conquering magical dungeons for treasure with your friends.

Get 20% off with the bundle! And if you already own one of the games, get 20% off the other!

About RimWorld: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

About Necesse: Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

- Ludeon Studios

Hi everyone! Our new plushie boomrat[www.makeship.com] just launched on Makeship!

Handle this little guy carefully, he just might explode... with love! His boomy pustules also glow in the dark with special fabric.

The boomrat plush is only available for a limited time, so get yours now on Makeship: https://www.makeship.com/products/boomrat-gitd-plush


[www.makeship.com]Also, the Steam Summer Sale just started and you can grab discounts on RimWorld and three of its expansions!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/
- RimWorld
- Biotech
- Ideology
- Royalty

Please don't set anything on fire,
Ludeon Studios

Hello! We're launching a very special colony simulator bundle today: RimFort x DwarfWorld! Get 10% off the game you don't own to complete the set! The bundle runs until June 26, 2024, and it's one of the best ways to spend 1000 hours in game.

Explore massive, generated worlds with your colonists and your dwarves. Go from fighting raiders and sentient robotic beasts across the planet to vampiric infestations and necromancers deep in your mines!

About Dwarf Fortress: The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created. Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Adventure Mode now available in open beta.

[url]About RimWorld:[/url] A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.


- Ludeon Studios

Hey everyone! We're back with a small update containing some changes, improvements and fixes for RimWorld and its expansions. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods.

We do these updates with the help of players from the RimWorld community! If you're interested in helping us test, or you have a bug to report, please join us on the official RimWorld development Discord[discord.gg].

Bye for now!
- Tia

• Adjusted render node worker to support multiple graphics per node without dirtying/reaching the render tree.
  
• Thoughts for each genetic chemical dependency are tracked independently instead of lumped together into a single confusing thought.
  
• Remove deathless regeneration coma on resurrection.
  
• Tweak some Anomaly incident occurrence rates so that they're less prevalent in ambient mode.
  
• Clarify the label for "anomaly disabled" mode.
  
• Added labelNoParenthesis rule symbol to pawns and things.
  
• Updated Spanish LanguageWorker.
  
• Ghouls can now be ordered to rest in medical beds.
  
• Pawns will now satisfy genetic chemical dependencies when in caravans if their drug policy allows it.
  
• Harbinger trees now consume corpses part by part even if they have no nutrition.
  
• Adjusted distance ranges on some sounds.
  
• Replaced gender-specific words with symbols in schematic texts.
  
• Don't store virtual relationship records which can never imply another relationship.
  
• Changed fade shadows to not multiply together.
  
• Remove healer mech serums from animal operation options.

• Fix: Minor grammar irregularity with addiction counsel.
  
• Fix: MechbandDish description typo.
  
• Fix: StaggerDurationFactor stat does not work without Biotech.
  
• Fix: Arresting beggars auto-fails.
  
• Fix: Genetic chemical dependency thought not properly nullified by mind numb serum.
  
• Fix: Remote repairer hediff can be duplicated.
  
• Fix: Autobongs making non-organic entities high.
  
• Fix: Creepjoiners have entity faction when enslaved
  
• Fix: Increased carried thing layer to resolve some apparel issues.
  
• Fix: Beam verbs and incinerator hitting cells without line of sight.
  
• Fix: Headgear not always rendering correctly when crawling.
  
• Fix: Preferred xenotypes not working correctly between prisoners and slaves.
  
• Fix: Incorrect label argument used in activity suppression tooltip.
  
• Fix: Various specific save/load errors with awoken corpses and hypnotized pawns.
  
• Fix: No “missing bed” feedback for “take to bed” warden order.
  
• Fix: Mech booster is rotatable.
  
• Fix: Apparel without CompColorable causes errors in styling station.
  
• Fix: High Mechtech can be selected in research without building a multi-analyzer.
  
• Fix: Message spam when capturing an enemy during a psychic ritual siege.
  
• Fix: Left behind pawns dying counts towards "colonists killed" stat if they die.
  
• Fix: Becoming a shambler incorrectly taints utility items.
  
• Fix: Feedback for sky-lantern participants who can't reach any wood, added better ritual feedback functions.
  
• Fix: Unnecessary loading warning appearing for transport pods without colonists.
  
• Fix: Creepjoiner letters not using gendered kind labels.
  
• Fix: Suspending lovin' causing errors.
  
• Fix: Ritual dialog tooltip slightly cutoff.
  
• Fix: Refugees can send leaving messages multiple times.
  
• Fix: Misleading extra warnings if complexes were previously activated before entering
  
• Fix: Some circumstances where temp factions wouldn't be properly hostile to anomaly entities or insects.
  
• Fix: Unable to place non downed pawns in a cryptosleep pod.
  
• Fix: Error when entity dies during bioferrite extraction.
  
• Fix: Error on inspect pane for ghouls without hunger needs.
  
• Fix: Herd animals trained to attack won't target shamblers.
  
• Fix: Psychic ritual failing when invoker gets psychic shock.
  
• Fix: Farskip not working on colony ghouls.
  
• Fix: Several scenarios where collapsed roofs can destroy pit gates.
  
• Fix: Hediff and mutant abilities not saving cooldown.
  
• Fix: Fleshmass stomach not preventing gut worms letter.
  
• Fix: Colony mechs and ghouls can't be selected in split caravan dialog.
  
• Fix: Modded violent work types disabling ghoul melee skill.
  
• Fix: HediffDef aptitudes displaying as active without Anomaly installed.
  
• Fix: Recluse thoughts not nullified properly by mind numb serum.
  
• Fix: Inhumanized not nullifying childbirth related memories.
  
• Fix: Biofuel refinery accepts dye as organic matter, but it doesn't have any nutritional value.
  
• Fix: Sunlamp light radius inaccurate.
  
• Fix: Error using "Damage until down" method on pawn with shield belt.
  
• Fix: More consistent handling of ActivitySuppressionToggleTooltipDesc and ActivitySuppressionTooltipDisabled translation keys.
  
• Fix: High activity alerts display HP percent.
  
• Fix: Activation inspect pane string has hardcoded "s".
  
• Fix: Inconsistent text 'Start' vs 'Begin' bestowing ceremony.
  
• Fix: Newborn babies can generate with parents' PawnKindDefs startingHediffs.
  
• Fixed some scenarios where skyfallers would drop through mountain roofs.
  
• Fixed some situational issues with creepjoiners leaving after being ghoulified.
  
• Fix: Genes and traits that increase skills on growth moment stack.
  
• Fix: Schematic generation error if only remaining projects are excluded.
  
• Fix: Activity suppression and studying not respecting allowed areas when selecting an interaction cell.
  
• Fix: Some undesired behavior with creepjoiner letters.
  
• Fix: Include common book symbols in book doer rule pack grammar requests.
  
• Fix: Relaxing socially not respecting standard seat reservations.
  
• Fix: Lay down driver sometimes causing errors on load.
  
• Fix: Having "give psylink" debug action on debug palette without royalty active causes errors.
  
• Fix: Deadlife shamblers opening doors.
  
• Fix: Unable to place non downed pawns in a cryptosleep pod.
  
• Fix: Error when entity dies during bioferrite extraction.
  
• Fix: Errors for ghouls without hunger needs.
  
• Fix: Sun/Edge shadows not always drawing if off-screen to the right.
  
• Fix: Tending pawns get medicine after using initial stack even if they have more.
  
• Fix: Security doors count as 2 doors for prisoners, reducing their prison break mtb by 50%. Added informative text explaining that having only security doors in a prison multiplies escape mtb by 110%.
  
• Fix: Error when turning pawn with ideoligion role into a ghoul.
  
• Fix: Harbinger tree provocation not working on ambient horror mode.
  
• Fix: Pawns leaving allowed area to rope animals.
  
• Fix: Luciferium addiction doesn't cause a medical emergency alert when a pawn is deathless.
  
• Fix: "BlockedByRoof" translation key in Royalty instead of Core.
  
• Fix: Scaria isn't removed on shambler resurrection.
  
• Fix: Colony mutants in buildings don't show on the colonist bar.
  
• Fix: Auto activate monolith scenario part doesn't have edit interface.
  
• Fix: Some music sequences ending harshly instead of fading out.
  
• Fix: Luciferium addiction remains on turned mutants.
  
• Fix: Turret packs can replace other turrets when throw misses.