How to farm ancient dangers

Mid/late game ancient danger exploring & farming.

Intro

Are you bored of your colony and gameplay routine? then it's time to go explore the planet. Rally up the pawns, form the caravan & bring some awesome loot back home!

Game settings

Go to the pause menu, options, then and increase the max colony limit from 1 to 2. You'll get a warning about performance but it doesn't matter. You'll be settling temporarily just for the ancient danger looting then you can abandon these temporary colonies.

What you'll need:

• Rangers/Brawlers with decent armor & weapons
  
• Basic caravan supplies (food, medicine, bed rolls)
  
• Pack Animals (optional, to increase your carry weight limit)

Step one

Form a caravan and go to any tile on the map, once your caravan arrives to its destination, settle in. It's guaranteed you'll find an ancient danger because they'll generate on every player map (unlike encounter/quest maps). It's recommended that you settle in flat tiles, without mountains so you'll easily be able to identify an ancient danger walls within seconds.

Step two

Once you find the ancient danger, it's time to breach in. Deconstruct (or shoot at) a portion of the outer walls so your pawns whom are waiting outside, can have sight on the targets.



As you can see on the right, my pawns aren't taking any cover, but they're all level 20 shooting with nice quality weapons. You may wanna build some cover if your pawns aren't well suited yet.

Step three

Now all you gotta do is shoot a cryptosleep casket from a distance. Sometimes you'll get hostiles sometimes you don't. Imprison, strip, kill them, it's up to you.

Step four

Grab the loot, form a caravan, abandon this colony, and you're done.


You can do this back to back as long as you have enough food/carry capacity/healthy pawns. Or you can go back to your main colony and deposit your loot.

The end

My first guide btw hope you find this useful. Thanks for reading.

[TurtleShroom]

@Hybrid

HOLY CRAP, IS THAT REALLY TRUE?

[Hybrid]

you can also deconstruct a corner inside wall form outside making it so you can see what threat is guarding it really good when their mechanoids

Mods i like using for that game-style are

[KV] Configurable Maps (Continued) lets you change the amount of ancient shrine a map can generate and much

[SYR] Set Up Camp
Lets you creates camp without having making your entire caravan drop all you stuff in the middle and it behaves like a outpost that you can leave or quickly when there's no enemies on the map
really this since the camp you make have settings to change how long they stay on your map and how big they are (normally bigger mean more chances of having ancient shrines)
And since with this mod you don't have to generate a full colony and abandon it each time it wont clutter your planet map

[Wychor]

All things that help with getting level 20 shooting pawns:
- Traits that boost memory and/or learning speed
- Prioritize jobs that train the skill (hunting and any kind of ranged combat)
- Use pawns with passion in that skill
- Give the pawn a Learning Assistant
- Use skill trainers
- Great shooting or strong shooting genes
- Quick study gene
- Transhumanist ideology with neural superchargers

And lets not forget:
- Cheat with dev mode

[Sudo Modding]

Might be a stupid question, but how do you train shooting to 20?

[Melyn]

@blue https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1424338139

[blue]

what mod adds in that blue stone

[VoidLord]

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[Latex Santa]

@Melyn Good idea. I'll remember this one, thanks!

[Melyn]

@averagecat i had the trap method in the guide but i removed it to keep the guide as short as possible, im pretty sure most rimworld players know about trap hallways & gas chambers. but they're really the best method in early game if you wanna rush ancient dangers.

[Balthazad]

rhinos are exquisite weapons against anything lurking in there, can do as tribesmen with spears if you got some ;)