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Explore the terrifying entities, containment strategies, and psychic rituals introduced in the RimWorld Anomaly DLC. Learn to survive sanity-shredding perils and harness the void's power.

The Anomaly DLC for RimWorld introduces a variety of horror-themed threats and mechanics. These include mysterious entities, containment facilities, a new research tree, psychic rituals, and new gear crafted from bioferrite. The DLC also adds a new endgame scenario involving a dark monolith and an insane machine-mind.

• Description: Details the horror elements, inspirations, and the core premise of the DLC, focusing on surviving sanity-shredding perils and studying new phenomena.
• Monolith: Explains the function of the Void monolith, its activation, and how its level increases by discovering entities, which in turn influences the types of threats that appear.
• Entities: Introduces the main threats of the DLC, most of which appear after the monolith is investigated. It covers their role in the Anomaly Tech Tree and the importance of studying them in containment cells.
• Ambient Horror: Describes a game mode where Anomaly threats can occur without the monolith, making them rarer and not the primary focus, with no monolith endgame.
• Anomaly settings: Details how to adjust the frequency of anomaly threats in custom difficulty settings, differentiating between major and minor incidents, and noting that Ambient Horror is a pre-game setting.
• Basic Entities: Lists and describes the initial set of entities introduced in the DLC, including the Void monolith, Harbinger tree, Fleshbeast, Sightstealer, Shambler, Ghoul, Gorehulk, and Death pall, with brief descriptions of their appearance and behavior.