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Welcome to RimWorld, a sci-fi colony sim where you manage a group of survivors crash-landed on a distant planet. You'll need to craft everything from weapons and armor to ship parts and workstations, using essential resources like Components and Neutroamine. Master every aspect of its procedurally generated worlds, from early-game survival to advanced base defense and colonist management. Navigate complex systems, build resilient colonies, and conquer challenging threats to secure your survivors' future.

This guide dives deep into the Anomaly DLC, helping you face its unique horror-themed threats and mysterious entities. We'll cover new research, psychic rituals, and how to craft gear from the new Bioferrite resource. Whether you're trying to establish containment facilities or reach the new endgame, this guide will equip you with the knowledge to survive.

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Advanced Defenses & Security

Learn advanced defense strategies and security measures in RimWorld's Anomaly DLC. Protect your colony from terrifying entities and supernatural threats with expert tips.

Advanced Defenses & Security

The Anomaly DLC for RimWorld introduces a host of new threats and challenges that require advanced defensive and security measures. This guide will delve into the specifics of how to best protect your colony from these sanity-shredding perils.

Walkthrough

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Understand the Monolith: The Void monolith is central to Anomaly threats. Investigating it activates it, increasing the likelihood and danger of entity appearances. Monitor its level and the entities discovered to anticipate threats.
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Entity Codex and Research: Entities are cataloged in the Entity Codex. Capturing and studying incapacitated entities advances the Anomaly Tech Tree, unlocking new research and capabilities. Prioritize studying threats to gain an advantage.
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Containment Facilities: Build specialized containment cells to safely house captured entities for study. Proper containment is crucial for preventing breakouts and ensuring colonist safety.
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Advanced Threats: As the monolith level increases, more dangerous entities like Fleshbeasts, Sightstealers, and Gorehulks will appear. Prepare defenses tailored to their specific abilities (e.g., ranged attacks for Gorehulks, invisibility countermeasures for Sightstealers).
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Psychic Rituals and Gear: Utilize new psychic rituals and craft specialized gear from resources like Bioferrite to bolster your defenses and offensive capabilities.
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Ambient Horror Settings: For a less focused Anomaly experience, consider the 'Ambient Horror' setting, which reduces the frequency of major threats while still allowing interaction with Anomaly content.

Tips

Monitor your colony's psychic entropy and sanity. High levels can lead to negative mood effects and unpredictable behavior, making your colony more vulnerable.
Invest in turrets, traps, and well-designed killboxes, but also be prepared for threats that bypass conventional defenses, such as psychic attacks or invisible entities.
Research and deploy specialized equipment, such as Void-infused weapons or protective gear, to counter specific entity types.
Keep a close eye on the Entity Codex to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each discovered threat.
Ensure your colonists have adequate training in combat and research to effectively deal with the new challenges.

Getting Started & Core Concepts

Welcome to RimWorld's Anomaly DLC! This guide covers the core concepts you'll need to understand to survive the horror-themed expansion. We'll explore the mysterious threats, how to contain them, the new research tree, psychic rituals, and the challenging endgame.

Introduction to Anomaly DLC
The Monolith and its role
Understanding Entities and their threats
Ambient Horror settings
Anomaly difficulty settings
Basic and Advanced Entities
Containment facilities
New Ideologies and Equipment
Psychic Rituals
The Monolith Ending
New Music

Getting Started & Core Mechanics

The Anomaly DLC for RimWorld introduces a horror-themed experience filled with mysterious threats, new research, and containment mechanics. Players will encounter entities such as flesh infestations, cultist attacks, shambling undead, and invisible hunters. The core of the DLC revolves around a dark monolith that, once activated, allows these terrifying manifestations to appear. Players can capture and study these entities to advance in a new research tree, harness the power of the void, conduct psychic rituals, and potentially awaken an evil machine god. The DLC was released on April 11, 2024, and adds new gear craftable from the resource Bioferrite, alongside a new endgame scenario.

The Monolith: A central structure that, when investigated and activated, escalates the appearance of dangerous entities and unlocks the entity codex. Its level increases as more entities are discovered.
Entities: A variety of new threats including the Harbinger tree, Fleshbeasts, Sightstealers, Shamblers, Ghouls, Gorehulks, and Death palls. These entities can be studied by incapacitating them and placing them in containment cells to advance the Anomaly Tech Tree.
Ambient Horror: A game setting where Anomaly threats can occur but are rare, and the monolith endgame is not possible.
Anomaly Settings: Players can adjust the frequency of anomaly threats in custom difficulty options, with specific settings for when the monolith is inactive versus active.
Basic Entities: Includes the Void monolith, Harbinger tree, Fleshbeast, Sightstealer, Shambler, Ghoul, Gorehulk, and Death pall.
Advanced Entities: Introduces the Pit gate, Dreadmeld, Fleshmass heart, and Fleshmass nucleus.
Containment: A key mechanic for studying entities by placing them in specialized cells.
Equipment: New weapons, utility items, and serums are available, craftable from new resources.
Psychic Rituals: A new system allowing for unique interactions and potential outcomes.