What changed in RimWorld in 2024

Errors if leatherDef is null.

Errors when prisoners have joy need via mods.

Error occurs directly after a pawn has used a verb.

Celebrate RimWorld's 11th birthday with a community event and a chance to win prizes.

Buildings with def-defined base market value.

Copying edits in-place instead of copying data over.

Dev palette cached incidents being skipped if target is the wrong type.

Wall torch has inconsistent max fuel compared to other similar buildings.

Performance of 'need warm clothes' alert improved with large numbers of clothes in stockpile.

A small update with various changes and fixes.

Insect jelly will now be deprioritized when selecting caravan food.

Quest not completing if join offer is postponed.

Contrary to trait description.

Injury label in brackets for body part sources was hard-coded.

Randomly scattered things don't retain quality from scenario config.

In some circumstances, shamblers could not walk through open doors.

Places a blueprint on deconstruct.

New slider for study efficiency in difficulty settings, affecting research points.

Slightly reduced health and increased min population requirement for revenants.

New mode where Anomaly threats are integrated into the game without the monolith.

Added methods for low-tech tribal colonies to progress through Anomaly content.

Anomaly is available in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Latin Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

The Anomaly expansion for RimWorld is now available.

The RimWorld - Anomaly expansion will be released on April 11, 2024.

Anomaly will support 10 languages at launch, including English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Latin Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

The Anomaly original soundtrack featuring 11 tracks will be available on April 11, 2024.

Update 1.5 adds a ton of content, improvements, and fixes.

Many mods have been updated to version 1.5, but some may not work yet.

The RimWorld - Anomaly Soundtrack featuring 11 tracks by Alistair Lindsay is now available.

Unmodded savegames from version 1.4 will load in version 1.5.

Ghouls can be augmented with implants that enhance their abilities, including protective and aggressive options.

Players can revive killed ghouls using a special serum.

Ghouls are former humans turned aggressive melee combatants due to bioferrite. They can be captured or created using harvested bioferrite.

New rituals that allow players to perform ceremonies with social effects, drawing upon psychic powers.

New individual rituals including imbue death refusal, psychophagy, chronophagy, philophagy, and brainwipe.

Introduction of cultists who perform rituals to attack players, including skip abduction and summoning fleshbeasts.

Players can perform new rituals such as draw shamblers, pleasure pulse, neurosis pulse, and blood rain.

New entity type that can be captured and weaponized using deadlife dust.

Parasitic creatures that control their hosts and can be identified through surgical tests.

New weapons and serums can be crafted using bioferrite harvested from entities.

Mechanics for capturing and containing new entities for research.

Psychically-invisible human hunters that can hypnotize colonists.

New technology track for studying captured entities and harvesting resources.

Anomaly expansion releases on April 11, 2024.

Encounter the fleshmass heart, a cancer-like creature that grows and spreads across the landscape.

Players can choose various strategies to clear out flesh infestations, including using guns or incinerators.

New fleshy threats including the squealing flesh beasts and their mother, the fleshmass heart.

A new pit gate that opens, releasing fleshbeasts and requiring colonists to descend into it.

The dreadmeld, a mammoth leader creature made of smaller fleshbeasts, is introduced as part of the fleshmass.

Optimizations for rendering pawns and alerts, improving overall game performance.

Various smaller updates including improved construction hauling and firefighting.

Right-clicking a dirty room allows colonists to clean it more conveniently.

New search bar to find items, structures, and enemies on the map.

New books for colonists to read, providing unique bonuses and stored in bookcases.

New command to mine entire mineral lumps in one click.

New weapon art, immature crop art, and leafless tree art added.

New bionic prosthetics for jaws and a rare organ decay disease introduced.

Couches can seat two and ornate doors are the first 2x1 doors in RimWorld.

Tainted apparel now has a distinct, darker color for easier identification.

Starting colonists may spawn with items related to their traits.

Wall lamps, flood lights, and hidden conduits introduced for better lighting and aesthetics.

Mechanoids can now surface from bodies of water, affecting base defense strategies.

Enhanced visibility of colonists' moods and redesigned prisoner and health tabs.

A new horror-themed expansion adding monstrous threats, containment facilities, and a new endgame.

Option to create new colonists after all original colonists are dead.

Humans can now crawl when downed, leaving blood trails and seeking recovery.