RimWorld is a popular sci-fi colony simulator game where you manage a group of colonists stranded on an alien planet. As the overseer, you guide them to build shelters, grow food, craft items, trade, and survive threats like pirate raids, diseases, and extreme weather.
To progress in RimWorld, you need to obtain important resources and components to construct buildings, weapons, apparel, and ship parts for escaping the planet. However, components and some resources are hard to obtain in bulk after the initial abundance on the map runs out.
This article provides an in-depth guide on the various methods to obtain components and essential resources in RimWorld.
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Finding Initial Components in the Map
When you start a new game, your map will have some compacted machinery tiles scattered around, visible as yellow colored squares. Order your colonists to mine these tiles to obtain a good stock of components initially. Each tile yields around 8-12 components.
You can also occasionally find crashed ship part chunks. Deconstruct these chunks to get a decent amount of components and steel.
Crafting Components
Once you research fabrication, build a fabrication bench to craft components using steel. Each component requires 12 steel and 5000 work to craft, so make sure to set your best crafter to repeat the job.
Pro Tip: Having multiple fabrication benches staffed by high crafting skill pawns is an efficient way to mass produce components in the mid and late game.
Buying Components from Traders
Trading with visiting traders is vital for getting a renewable source of components. Stockpile silver and items like drugs, art, and leather for trading. Traders usually carry 20-100 components each visit if you have good relations. So buying all of their stock every time can give you a steady supply.
Some events may also gift you components if you select the correct response. Keep an eye out for these.
Long Range Mineral Scanner
The long range mineral scanner can detect compacted machinery deposits outside your colony. Send caravans to mine these deposits with transport pods for hauling resources back. Each deposit contains around 100-150 components.
Additional Mining Colonies
Once you have transport pods researched, settle additional colonies in resource-rich areas solely focused on mining. Transport mined resources like components back to your main base. Just beware of the wealth and raid point increases from multiple colonies.
Exotic Goods Traders
These traders may carry advanced components to trade if you have a high wealth colony. Trade them art, drugs, implants, armor, and legendary weapons for these rare components.
Quest Rewards
Some quests may directly reward you advanced or regular components for completing certain requests like attacking an enemy base. Keep an eye out for these lucrative quests.
Obtaining Steel
Steel is vital for crafting components and almost everything else. You can obtain it from:
- Mining steel deposits
- Deconstructing ship chunks, buildings, and mechanoid corpses
- Trading
- Deep drilling if you find steel deposits underground
Set bills at smelters to smelt all slag chunks, steel slag chunks, and mechanoid corpses for extra steel.
Obtaining Other Resources
Wood: Chop trees growing around the map. Avoid cutting too many to prevent beauty and mood penalties.
Food: Grow crops in fertile land. Rice gives fast yields but poor nutrition. Corn is slower growing but nutrient rich. Hunt animals or farm chickens/cows/pigs. Long term nutrition comes from cooked meals.
Medicine: Grow healroot to make herbal medicine. Trade for industrial medicine. Request or buy components to build a drug lab and make advanced medicine from neutroamine and cloth.
Components/Plasteel/Uranium: Follow the methods outlined above. Request these items as quest rewards when possible.
In summary, utilize a combination of mining, crafting, trading, quest rewards, resource scanning, and additional mining colonies to maintain a steady supply of components and other resources in RimWorld.
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