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RimWorld Beginner's Guide: First Day Survival Strategies
A beginner's guide to successfully navigating your first day in RimWorld and building a thriving colony. From choosing a scenario to managing settlers, building a base, and securing food, it provides key strategies to avoid common early-game mistakes and help you get off to a stable start.
1. 🚀 Game Start Settings: Scenario, Storyteller, and Difficulty Selection
- ✅ Scenario: Beginners should start with the 'Crash Landed' scenario to get used to the game.
- ✅ Storyteller: 'Cassandra Classic' helps learn the game with predictable events.
- ✅ Difficulty: 'Adventure Story' difficulty is suitable for beginners, and you can choose 'Commitment Mode' to increase the tension of the game.
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1. 🚀 Game Start Settings: Scenario, Storyteller, and Difficulty Selection
- ✅ Scenario: Beginners should start with the 'Crash Landed' scenario to get used to the game.
- ✅ Storyteller: 'Cassandra Classic' helps learn the game with predictable events.
- ✅ Difficulty: 'Adventure Story' difficulty is suitable for beginners, and you can choose 'Commitment Mode' to increase the tension of the game.
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2. 🏞️ Settlement Location Selection: Considering Terrain and Resources
- ✅ Temperate Forest: We recommend starting in a temperate forest with abundant resources and a stable climate.
- ✅ Mountainous Terrain: Choose mountainous terrain that is advantageous for defense, but avoid places without caves to avoid the threat of early insect swarms.
- ✅ Stone Types: Selecting an area with granite (strength, fire resistance) and marble (aesthetics) can increase settler satisfaction.
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3. 🧑🤝🧑 Initial Settler Selection: Considering Traits and Skills
- ✅ Avoid Mood Debuff Traits: Avoid settlers with traits that negatively affect mood.
- ✅ Useful Work-Related Traits: Traits such as 'Fast Walker', 'Brawler', 'Trigger Happy', and 'Fast Learner' are very helpful in the early stages.
- ✅ Passion: The flame symbol next to a skill increases the skill acquisition speed. Two flames increase the acquisition speed by 150%.
| Settler | Trait | Key Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Mr. Story | Fast Learner, Brawler | Growing, Intellectual |
| Mr. Noob | Jogger, Trigger Happy | Animals, Medical, Social |
| Virgil | Psychically Hypersensitive, Cannibal, Fast Learner | Construction, Medical Assistant |
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4. ⚙️ Colony Settings: Schedule, Medical Policies, Work Priorities
- ✅ Schedule: Maximize productivity by adjusting sleep times to match the characteristics of the settlers (e.g., nocturnal).
- ✅ Medical Policy: Use herbal medicine in the early stages, and switch to the highest quality medicine immediately when an infection occurs. Set the doctor to always carry the best medicine.
- ✅ Clothing Policy: Set clothes to be automatically removed when their durability drops below 51% to increase their sale value. Prohibit wearing contaminated clothing.
- ✅ Food Policy: Prohibit rotten food and raw food, and only allow strawberries in the early stages.
- ✅ Work Priorities: Set manual priorities to efficiently distribute suitable tasks to each settler.
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5. 🏠 Early Base Construction and Food Production Preparation
- ✅ Temporary Base: Build a 9x9 temporary base near fertile soil.
- ✅ Set Up Storage Zones: Set up storage zones to prevent spoilage, and designate separate zones to store corpses and rocks.
- ✅ Set Up Growing Zones: Secure about 20 squares of growing zone per settler, and grow fast-growing rice in the early stages.
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6. 🛡️ First Day Survival: Equipping Gear, Building a Base, Installing Amenities
- ✅ Equipping Gear: Equip melee combat experts with armor, give rifles to settlers with low shooting skills, and pistols to those with high shooting skills.
- ✅ Base Construction: Collect wood to build walls and install doors.
- ✅ Install Amenities: Install beds, dining tables, and chairs to increase settler satisfaction, and provide recreational activities by installing a horseshoe toss set.