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Rimworld is now at its lowest price yet, but you'll have to act fast

If you've never played Ludeon Studios' popular sci-fi colony sim Rimworld, now is the perfect chance, as the Steam hit has had a lucrative (and rare) price drop. Fanatical has slashed 30% off the Standard Edition of Rimworld, which drops the price to the lowest we've seen. There are also deals on the Rimworld Horror Pack and Starter Pack for those who want to pick up the base game and an expansion pack at a serious discount.


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The RimWorld merch store is live until Jan 9!

Hi everyone, the official RimWorld merch store is live, but only until Jan 9, 2025!

We're sending out transport pods with our new Randy Random hoodie, muffalo plush, megasloth plush (plus wool), and RimWorld sticker pack!

They're all available here: https://rimworld.store/


And a little reminder that you can keep up to date with all things RimWorld on our X, Reddit, and website.

- Ludeon Studios

Get the Terraform Titans Duo: Oxygen Not Included x RimWorld!

Hi there, we're back with the Terraform Titans Duo where you'll get the ultimate survival and strategy experience!

With Oxygen Not Included and RimWorld, you'll master resource management, build intricate bases, conquer hostile planets and face unpredictable challenges. These two critically acclaimed games offer endless hours of creativity, strategy, and survival in harsh, off-world environments on the soil and in the stars!

Get 20% off with the bundle! And if you already own one of the games, get 20% off the other!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46465/Terraform_Titans_Duo/

Oxygen Not Included: Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

RimWorld: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

RimWorld’s birthday and community event!

RimWorld turns 11 years old on November 4th! To celebrate, we’re holding a birthday community event to showcase all things RimWorld. 🎂

Everyone that participates (and follows the rules below) will be entered in a random giveaway for one of three sets of YouTooz’s War Queen figure and RimWorld pin sets!

We've also got a small update for RimWorld in version 1.5.4241, and the changelog is below.

Thank you so much for continuing to support and show your love for our game over the last decade.
Happy birthday RimWorld! 🎉 - Ludeon Studios


[h2]RimWorld Birthday Community Event 🎂[/h2]
By participating in our birthday event, you’ll be entered in a random giveaway to get one of three sets of YouTooz’s War Queen figure and RimWorld enamel pins!

Please read all of the event rules and giveaway details before participating.


[h3]Event rules[/h3]
  • 1 entry per person.
  • To participate, share your RimWorld creations with us! It can be RimWorld fanart, in-game screenshots or gameplay videos (vanilla/non-modded content only), writing, and other creative media. Share it with us by replying to the X @LudeonStudios birthday post or share a link on the official RimWorld birthday Reddit thread. All submissions must be human-made works, no AI-generated content permitted.
  • Participation closes on Oct 25, 11:59PM Pacific. Giveaway recipients will be announced on [EDIT] Tuesday, Oct 29 on Twitter/Reddit by TiaPixel.
  • Those selected for the giveaway will be contacted on Twitter/Reddit by TiaPixel (and no one else, be careful if someone other than TiaPixel reaches out).
  • You must respond before Oct 31 or someone else will receive the giveaway.
Here are some ideas/inspiration if you'd like to participate, but don't know what to do. (Of course, you're not limited to these!)
  • Birthday themes: Birthday cakes, party decorations, presents, and joyful celebrations!
  • Screenshots: Colonies/bases, individual rooms (throne rooms, ritual chambers, war-torn battlegrounds), and interesting events (weddings, rituals, intense battles, hilarious moments).
  • Artwork: Illustrations of your colonists, pets, mechanoids, xenotypes, ideoligions, etc. Comics depicting funny in-game moments or stories of your colonists. Speedpaintings of your artwork.
[h3]Giveaway details[/h3]
  • 1 set of the YouTooz War Queen figure and YouTooz RimWorld enamel pins will be randomly given to 3 different participants.
  • Note: YouTooz is unable to ship their merchandise to certain countries, please check yours before participating: https://youtooz.com/pages/shipping-policy
[h2]RimWorld Sales[/h2]
RimWorld and the expansions Biotech, Ideology, and Royalty are all on sale until October 18!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/
[h2]Changelog[/h2]
  • Improve performance of "need warm clothes" alert with large numbers of clothes in stockpile.
  • Moved "CausedBy" translation key to core.
  • Insect jelly will now be deprioritized when selecting caravan food.
  • Disable room space need thoughts when asleep.
  • Smoke launchers, incinerators, and gunlinks no longer have qualities.
  • Re-flavor royal titles.
  • Allow timbershrooms to grow on polluted ground.
  • Allow prisoners to be downed for prisoner sacrifice and execution rituals.
  • Updated creative rewards content.
  • Updated translations.
[h3]Fixes[/h3]
  • Fix: Dev palette cached incidents being skipped if target is the wrong type.
  • Fix: Hard-coded formatting on injury label in brackets for body part sources.
  • Fix: Copying colonist ScenParts with configurable lists edits in-place instead of copying data over.
  • Fix: Wall torch has inconsistent max fuel compared to other similar buildings.
  • Fix: Brain isn't properly destroyed by execution cutting on deathless pawns.
  • Fix: Electroharvester has flipped graphics.
  • Fix: Pawns without reading policies producing error when prisoners have joy need via mods.
  • Fix: Randomly scattered things don't retain quality from scenario config.
  • Fix: Shamblers not able to walk through open doors in some circumstances.
  • Fix: Coagulate can be used on pawn with no tendable hediffs.
  • Fix: Hunting work site generation can cause errors with modded games if leatherDef is null.
  • Fix: Global learning speed factors do not appear on skill tooltip.
  • Fix: Missing eyepatch drawn over blindfolds.
  • Fix: Some anomaly debug actions visible without anomaly active.
  • Fix: Breastfeeding moms dropping babies if no bed.
  • Fix: Healer Mech Serum prioritizes sterilized over mental ailments.
  • Fix: Having bloodfeeding and cannibalism memes sometimes generates an ideoligion with no positive cannibalism precept.
  • Fix: Misconfigured distRange on SubcoreEncoder_Working sound.
  • Fix: Exception ticking mothballed world pawn.
  • Fix: Room size space calculations can add cells from outdoor locations.
  • Fix: Error if simulate killing unspawned pawn with a shield.
  • Fix: Deconstructing firefoam popper with auto rebuild on places a blueprint on deconstruct.
  • Fix: Ascetic pawns judge others for their appearance, contrary to trait description.
  • Fix: Deadlife shamblers appearing on schedule.
  • Fix: Ideology buildings not respecting interaction spot overlap.
  • Fix: Anima Tree artificial structure radius inconsistencies.
  • Fix: Incorrect wealth calculation on buildings with def-defined base market value
  • Fix: Sanguaphage meeting quest not completing if join offer is postponed.
  • Fix: Error in inspect string when saving game directly after a pawn has used a verb.

Bow down to the War Queen! (Plus RimWorld enamel pins)

Hey there, we're excited to share that our majestic vinyl War Queen figure and RimWorld enamel pin set are now available on YouTooz for the next 4 weeks!

War Queen vinyl figure: We sent out a signal pulse... and a War Queen responded! She'll make a great addition to your colony at home.

RimWorld enamel pin set: Features 5 RimWorld-themed designs including:
- RimWorld logo
- "Ate without table -3" thought
- Crashlanded colonist
- Scyther
- Thrumbo


We're also running a birthday month sale for RimWorld and its expansions until Oct 18. 🎉

https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/Long live the War Queen!
- Ludeon Studios