Dive into RimWorld's Anomaly DLC! Discover mysterious entities, learn about containment, psychic rituals, new research, and the chilling endgame. Survive the horror.
The Anomaly DLC for RimWorld introduces a chilling horror-themed experience, bringing mysterious threats, containment facilities, a new research tree, psychic rituals, and new gear crafted from bioferrite. Released on April 11, 2024, this DLC expands the game with sanity-shredding perils like flesh infestations, cultist attacks, shambling undead, blood rains, and invisible hunters. Players can capture and study entities to harness the power of the void, conduct psychic rituals, and potentially awaken an evil machine god.
The core of the Anomaly experience revolves around the Monolith, a structure that appears on the map and, once investigated, begins to spawn various entities. These entities are cataloged in the Entity Codex, and their appearance and danger level increase with the Monolith's level. There are multiple tiers of entities to discover, requiring players to find a certain number within each tier to advance the Monolith's level.
Entities are the primary antagonists of the Anomaly DLC. Most will only appear after the Monolith has been investigated. Players can study these entities by incapacitating them and placing them in containment cells, which then allows colonists to research them via the Dark Research job, progressing the Anomaly Tech Tree. The DLC also includes an
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