Rimworld Slime

    I have been playing too much Rimworld, and I am now much later into the game than I’ve ever been. I have a million colonists! The group is called Slime and their colony is Slimeville. It started with three girls, as it almost always does for me, named Lumi, Freckles, and Cannon.

    The first recruit was a man named Dragon, and he and Cannon are now about to have their third kid. I am obsessed with the random nicknames the game will give your people. Their children are Donk (who just became an adult!) and Girl David (originally David but I kept forgetting she is a girl so she’s Girl David now). Here is everyone:

    Cannon does everything in her marriage and in the colony. Except for construction and mining, which is run by Freckles, who is afraid of light and hates being outside, only leaving to mine more
compacted machinery. Luxemburg is my least favorite, but the new recruit, Shifty, might take her place. Luxemburg is ALWAYS fighting. ALWAYS. But Shifty, a guy I found in a cryosleep casket, is so addicted to drugs I do not have and spends most of his time resting in the hospital. 

    Cannon and Dragon are my only couple, since almost everyone is a girl besides Hairy, Squoin, Vinny, and Shifty (the last two being new recruits and also kinda hated). I wish they didn't need to have a Gay trait to be gay, I want to waste less space on individual bedrooms! 

    I've only lost two colonists (I am a chronic reloader, I'm sorry, this game invokes deep maternal instincts that rival those you get when you see the perfect plush for sale). One died bc he was like 70 and the other because she insisted on sad wandering with an untreated infection. I was so mad because she had some fantastic skills. But she wasn't emotionally stable enough. 

    The third corpse in the family lot is that of Artur, a senile arctic fox who was bonded to 17-year-old Lumi when we crashlanded, making her my anime girl protag. It's been about 5-year cycles in the game and he eventually developed fox dementia, which was really sad. This is how I knew we had to buy him in a sarcophagus. 

    Here's my non-bird (except turkeys) enclosure where I keep my ever-spawning donkeys and these goats and sheep that just wandered in. I had some cows too but I think I lost them. Or ate them. This is my second attempt at a farm in this colony, the first attempt went very very poorly. Lots of animals starving to death and colonists eating corpses bc they were so hungry. I don't know why I insist on keeping animals, esp ones that keep having babies but I just can't stop myself. 

    These are my ducks and geese. Oh and chickens, the only animal with auto slaughter on because they have so many fucking chicks. And my colonists are so hungry. I was super excited to see what the baby geese were like, a foolish mistake, I forgot all baby animals are just tiny versions of the adult ones, except chickens who are also yellow. All the unnamed animals are the babies.

    

    This is the main colony area, since I took this picture I completed a lot of research and have a bunch of weird gene stuff waiting to be made (major component drought rn) in that lower, emptyish room. I also have a greenhouse I need to get rid of because it is too many potatoes that just rot. I survived the last winter with like 500 meals to spare, I don't need it. What I do need are my agrohands (the mechanoids that help with farm work) to charge! For some reason, everyone keeps picking them up and putting them next to the chargers and then replacing them with one of the others in a never-ending loop and I can't make it stop without making the colonist stop hauling as a whole. 

    Here is a picture of the ever-cycling agrohand pile.

    Another aspect of this weird game that I adore is the descriptions of art pieces. Here's a simple, but evocative description that I discovered in my art-to-sell cache. 

    

    This is Deplorable, who is standing on Coucous, my husky, rn. Deplorable was tamed to fill in my farm but it turns out he's an indoor pet. And he fits in a pet bed, unlike my donkeys. Sure.

    Okay, I'm out of Rimworld screenshots, I guess I should go and play more and gather some.........

Bye!! 👾