I bought “Rimworld” It looks my my kinda game.
I started it up last night and had no clue at all what the hell was going on. Three people were milling about at my landing zone but I don’t know what they were doing. I couldn’t tell what any of the objects on screen were. I could not tell how to equip the guy with a gun the game told me to equip with a gun. I managed to create a zone for storing things but have no clue if anyone was gathering such things. I was flummoxed. I wasn’t even sure how much time was passing.
The game does not seem to have a tutorial.
Is there a good WRITTEN tutorial? (I hate, hate, hate, hate Youtube tutorials.)
Thanks!
The game basically assumes you’ve played Dwarf Fortress.
Your stockpile(s), except for the dumping stockpile, should be indoors.
To equip the guy, right click on a gun while you have the guy highlighted.
Pawns (that’s the official name for your colonists) won’t gather things that are off limits and everything is off limits when you first start a colony. All that stuff marked with a red X? Left click one, or left click and draw a box around several, to bring up the dialog for removing the X. Make sure you don’t have anything else in the box you draw, pawns in particular, so you don’t select something you don’t want.
You’ll want to click the Work dialog and set it to Manual, which brings up numbers for each pawn. Lower numbers have higher priority and yellow boxes are the best pawn for that job, followed by white and shades of gray. Hauling should be 1 or 2 to get stuff indoors as quickly as possible.
Garden plots default to potatoes. Pause while plotting gardens then left click the Potato icon to change it.