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Definitive Guide: The Killbox, the Best Anti-Raid Defense in RimWorld
This video offers a detailed guide on how to build and use the 'Trap Corridor', an effective defense against raids in RimWorld. It explains the design, materials, the logic behind its operation, and how to adapt it to different situations and enemy types, maximizing the security of your colony.
1. 🛡️ Introduction to the Trap Corridor: The Ultimate Anti-Raid Defense
- ✅ The Trap Corridor is a simple but very effective structure to defend your colony.
- ✅ It consists of a long corridor with traps, designed to trick raiders.
- ✅ It is useful from the early days to the end of the game, and even integrable into ships with the Odyssey DLC.
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1. 🛡️ Introduction to the Trap Corridor: The Ultimate Anti-Raid Defense
- ✅ The Trap Corridor is a simple but very effective structure to defend your colony.
- ✅ It consists of a long corridor with traps, designed to trick raiders.
- ✅ It is useful from the early days to the end of the game, and even integrable into ships with the Odyssey DLC.
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2. 🧱 Building the Trap Corridor: Materials and Basic Design
- ✅ Use resistant, non-flammable, and low-value materials, such as granite.
- ✅ Build two parallel walls separated by two squares, oriented towards the most frequented areas of your colony.
- ✅ Connect the corridor to your base with an L-shaped junction, protecting the entrance with a sturdy barricade and a door that is always open.
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3. ⚙️ Implementation of Fences and Traps: The Defensive Pattern
- ✅ Place fences next to the wall furthest from your base, following a pattern of one square with a fence and one free.
- ✅ Install spike traps on the opposite side, near the wall closest to your base, alternating one trap with a free square.
- ✅ Add a wall next to the first trap to force entry into the corridor through a single square.
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4. 🧠 Logic and Operation: How to Trick Raiders
- ✅ Raiders look for the shortest route, and the Trap Corridor forces them to go through the traps due to the fences that slow their movement.
- ✅ Fences offer little cover and do not increase the value of the colony too much.
- ✅ To protect colonists who repair the traps, consider adding doors every 8-10 traps, although this may affect the behavior of the raiders and increase the value of the colony.
- ✅ Design the Trap Corridor in sections with doors at the end to facilitate maintenance and reduce risks.
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5. 🪤 Spike Traps: Types, Damage, and Strategic Considerations
- ✅ Spike traps have a 100% chance of being activated when stepped on by enemies, including mechanoids and animals in an altered mental state.
- ✅ Any colonist with level 3 construction can make them, requiring 45 units of material.
- ✅ The damage inflicted depends on the material: wooden ones are ideal at the beginning, but steel ones are more effective against enemies with armor.
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6. ⚠️ Limitations of the Trap Corridor: Raids Impossible to Stop
- ✅ The Trap Corridor is not effective against drop pod raids, intelligent sappers, or breach units.
- ✅ In these cases, consider closing the Trap Corridor and opening another access to your base to face them one by one.
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7. 🛡️ Additional Strategies: Defense in the Connection Room
- ✅ Fortify the connection room with barricades and walls to defend yourself from raiders who manage to enter.
- ✅ Place armed colonists next to the door and use melee colonists to block the entrance while others attack from a distance.
- ✅ Use EMP grenades against mechanoids to stun them.
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8. 🏆 Conclusion: Mastering the Trap Corridor for Survival
- ✅ The Trap Corridor is a versatile and effective defense, but its success depends on understanding how raiders think and how to adapt it to each situation.
- ✅ Adjust the length of the corridor and the number of traps according to the wealth of your colony to balance the difficulty of the raids.