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Psycasts Expanded Guide in RimWorld: Master Psychic Powers
This guide details how to use the Vanilla Psycasts Expanded mod to master psychic abilities in RimWorld. Learn how to progress your colonists, manage psyfocus and neural heat, and unlock powerful psychic branches to change the game.
1. 🧠 Introduction to Psycasts Expanded: Progression and Psychic Control
- ✅ The Vanilla Psycasts Expanded mod transforms RimWorld's psychic system into an RPG-like progression system.
- ✅ Unlike the base game, you can now decide what kind of psychic you want to create.
- ✅ Colonists gain experience by meditating, allowing them to level up and gain skill points.
- ✅ Invest skill points to unlock meditation styles, increase neural heat limits, and unlock new psychic abilities.
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Meditar | Gains psychic experience and counts as recreation. |
| Subir de Nivel | Get skill points to invest. |
00:21 - 01:27
1. 🧠 Introduction to Psycasts Expanded: Progression and Psychic Control
- ✅ The Vanilla Psycasts Expanded mod transforms RimWorld's psychic system into an RPG-like progression system.
- ✅ Unlike the base game, you can now decide what kind of psychic you want to create.
- ✅ Colonists gain experience by meditating, allowing them to level up and gain skill points.
- ✅ Invest skill points to unlock meditation styles, increase neural heat limits, and unlock new psychic abilities.
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Meditar | Gains psychic experience and counts as recreation. |
| Subir de Nivel | Get skill points to invest. |
01:30 - 02:41
2. 🔥 Psyfocus and Neural Heat: Managing Psychic Energy
- ✅ Psyfocus is the energy used to cast psychic abilities, similar to mana.
- ✅ Each ability consumes psyfocus and increases neural heat, which is the colonist's mental limit.
- ⚠️ Exceeding the neural heat limit can result in coma or brain damage.
- ✅ Meditating helps to keep psychic energy stable and recharge psyfocus.
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Psicofoco | Energy to use abilities. Regenerates over time and with meditation. |
| Calor Neural | Mental limit before collapse. Increases when using abilities. |
02:42 - 03:13
3. 🧘 Meditation Styles and Psychic Customization
- ✅ Each type of meditation offers different styles and bonuses.
- ✅ Meditation focuses are additive, allowing you to combine benefits (e.g., morbid and fire meditation).
- ✅ The system allows you to create unique and customized psychics, rather than relying on random abilities.
| Example | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Meditación Mórbida + de Fuego | Combined bonuses when meditating next to a grave and a torch. |
03:49 - 05:46
4. ✨ Favorite Psychic Branches: Necromancer, Static Lord, Protector, Assassin, Technomancer, and Warlord
- Necromancer: Revive fallen colonists to fight again.
- Static Lord: Throws lightning bolts that bounce between enemies and set them on fire.
- Protector: Stabilizes injured colonists to prevent bleeding.
- Assassin: Teleport to an enemy's shadow, strike them, and return to the place of origin.
- Technomancer: Repairs and improves weapons and armor.
- Warlord: Turns a colonist into a super soldier.
- Spring: Increases the colonist's movement speed for 3 hours.
| Psychic Branch | Featured Ability | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Necromancer | Revive Colonist | Quick resurrection of important colonists. |
| Static Lord | Throw Lightning | Area damage and chance to set enemies on fire. |
| Protector | Stabilize | Prevents death from bleeding. |
| Assassin | Assassinate | Surprise and safe attack. |
| Technomancer | Repair/Improve | Improves the quality and durability of equipment. |
| Warlord | Buffs | Turns colonists into super soldiers. |
| Spring | Increase Speed | Fast mobility for any task. |
05:47 - 07:10
5. 🛠️ Colonist Setup: Key Roles and Abilities
- ✅ Most colonists have the Spring ability to increase movement speed.
- ✅ Doctors use the Protector branch, especially the stabilize ability.
- ✅ Always have a Necromancer to revive important colonists.
- ✅ A Technomancer to repair and improve weapons and armor.
| Role | Main Psychic Branch | Key Ability |
|---|---|---|
| General | Spring | Speed Increase |
| Doctor | Protector | Stabilize |
| Specialist | Necromancer/Technomancer | Revive/Repair and Improve |
07:11 - 08:04
6. ⚖️ Skill Point Strategy: Balancing Powers and Efficiency
- ✅ Psychics can only level up to level 30, obtaining 29 skill points.
- ✅ Recommends unlocking only a few key abilities (10-15 maximum).
- ✅ Use the rest of the points to increase the neural heat limit and psyfocus regeneration rate.
- ✅ Prioritize the ability to use abilities frequently over having many powers that can only be used a few times.
| Approach | Advantage |
|---|---|
| Few Key Skills + Limit/Regeneration Increase | Frequent use of abilities without mental exhaustion. |
| Many Skills | Versatility, but limited use per day. |
08:05 - 08:41
7. ⚙️ Mod Configuration and Tribal Psychic Creation
- ✅ The mod is highly configurable, allowing you to adjust the maximum level and the rate of experience gain.
- ✅ In tribal games, you can create new psychics through rituals at the Anima Tree.
- ✅ This gives you more freedom to build a psychic cult without relying on the Empire.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Maximum Level/Experience Speed | Adjust the progression of psychics. |
| Tribal Rituals | Creates psychics in tribal games. |
08:42 - 09:11
8. 🤝 Tribal Recruitment and Free Psychic Powers
- ✅ If you recruit tribals, they can meditate at the Anima Tree and get free psychic powers.
- ✅ Any colonist with a natural meditation type can meditate at the Anima Tree.
- ✅ New psychic levels can be obtained by performing a ritual at the Anima Tree.
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Recruit Tribals | Access to meditation at the Anima Tree. |
| Meditate in Anima Tree | Obtaining free psychic powers. |
09:12 - 10:00
9. 🛡️ Prestigious Armor and Eltex Weapons: Crafting and Benefits
- ✅ You can create your own prestigious armor and Eltex weapons at workstations.
- ✅ Prestigious armor increases psychic sensitivity and neural heat recovery.
- ✅ Eltex weapons increase the maximum neural heat limit and accelerate its recovery.
| Item | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Prestigious Armors | Psychic sensitivity and neural heat recovery. |
| Eltex Weapons | Increase of the limit and recovery of neural heat. |
10:01 - 10:21
10. 💎 Obtaining Eltex and Usage Priorities
- ✅ Eltex is hard to get, it is obtained from meteorites or Empire missions.
- ✅ It is recommended to save it to create rings with Time No Mancer abilities.
| Eltex Source | Method |
|---|---|
| Meteorites | Mine the meteorites that fall. |
| Empire Missions | Reward for completing missions. |