What changed in RimWorld in 2025

New prosthetic protects against vacuum, requires Odyssey and Royalty expansions.

Animals are now correctly checking reservations on fishing cells.

Improved loading times for worlds with 100% coverage.

Added snowy visuals for trees and some plants in snowy areas.

Traders guild faction no longer mentions giving gifts in their hostility letter.

Outfit stands are once again minifiable and drop inventory contents correctly.

Corrected plant weights on maps with limited fertile terrain.

Fishing is now categorized in the work tab.

Starjacks now have a new low gravity adapted gene for better performance in space.

Easily get colony animals and mechanoids onboard before launching and remove neutral pawns.

Raiders won't try to ignite buildings when they are in a vacuum.

Vacuum overlay was not updating after gravship takeoff.

White fringing was observed on unique weapons.

Psychic drones and soothes were not affecting space maps.

There was an incorrect lerping in HitFactorFromShooter.

Players faced an issue where they couldn't accept a quest in orbit after performing an ideology ritual on the planet surface.

Updated to use the correct track for Odyssey’s end credits.

Players were unable to search for items on corpses.

A new epic song now plays at the end of Odyssey.

The game will now attempt to clean up invalid scenario parts when loading a save.

GraphicData copy method didn't copy cornerOverlayPath, throwing an error if used for a building which can be player-constructed.

Enhanced the translatability of orbital trader names.

An error occurred when launching with mech cluster building on ship.

Pawns now move more rapidly when pathing to water to go swimming.

Allowed the trader's guild faction to generate more variety in their ideoligion.

Several apparel packs were not allowed to be taken during the archonexus restart.

RangedWeapon_WarmupMultiplier stat was not being applied correctly.

Pawns were deleted if dryads were taken on gravship without their guaranlen tree.

The music track 'Impermanent Waves' is now a non-combat song on the planet and in-orbit.

North and south sprites for the orbital scanner were swapped.

Gravship facilities on invalid substructure are no longer considered connected.

Quest shuttles no longer attempt to land on water, preventing them from teleporting into buildings.

Vacuum resistance stat was not being cached, causing performance issues with many blueprints on the map.

Torrential rain was flooding through bridges.

Gravship wreckage quest was not generating after archonexus if using gravship scenario.

Rottables were rotting in settlement trade inventory.

Dormant mechs will no longer obstruct pawn movement.

Players encountered an error when trying to load a saved ideology into the traders guild faction's ideoligion.

Certain wardening workgivers couldn't be prioritized when the prisoner/slave was already reserved.

The French language worker has been updated.

Sounds in mods were failing to load on Linux if there's a space in the file path.

A confusing letter was sent for left-behind world pawn giving birth.

Pawns immune to rot stink still received the moodlet for exposure to it.

Royalty shuttles were able to land on unsuitable terrain, potentially losing their contents.

Scribe_References were unable to save reference to the World, breaking incident queue for incidents targeting world.

Flickables are reset to be powered on when gravship launches.

Psilocap catatonic breakdown chance reduced from 4% to 1% and creative inspiration chance from 6% to 2%.

Diagonal walls could incorrectly leak room vacuum.

Reduced the chance of the gravship landing spot being over deep water.

Mechanoid signal quest sometimes didn’t drop the grav engine.

Fixed multiple quest-related errors and UI issues, including shuttles applying peace talk outcomes on landing.

Could place the gravship hull off of substructure.

Player shuttles could be lost in water when landing.

Fixed various typos in descriptions.

Made crater descriptions more generic and clarified the orbital scanner and gravcore descriptions.

Power connections are scrambled on gravship launch.

Fixed issues with corner punching turrets, buildings affecting room roles, beds becoming prisoner beds, and enemies setting fire through corners.

Issues with nomadic precept not saving/loading properly, resetting to poor mood on load.

Areas previously occupied by gravship weren’t being updated by the pathfinder.

Flying animals have been added to the game.

Various quality-of-life changes across caravans, plans, building, UI, and more.

Map generation has been reworked in the update.

Odyssey is available in multiple languages including English, Chinese, Russian, French, and more.

The RimWorld - Odyssey expansion is now available.

Massive performance improvements included in the free update 1.6.

Players can now build stronger bridges that support larger structures on water.

Odyssey adds new quests that take players across the planet and into orbit, featuring unique challenges and rewards.

New features allow players to create statues of characters and use outfit stands for quick gear changes.

New hunter drones, wasp drones, and sentry drones can now be encountered and utilized in gameplay.

Odyssey will support 14 languages at launch, enhancing accessibility for players worldwide.

Odyssey introduces rare, one-of-a-kind weapons with custom names, traits, and abilities.

Players can now confront the mechhive, a new endgame challenge involving mechanoid production and a powerful AI core.

New quests involving legendary beasts like the alpha thrumbo and hive queen.

New tasks for animals including comforting colonists and digging for resources.

New creatures including crows, flamingos, porcupines, and prehistoric megafauna.

Fishing introduced as a reliable way to feed colonies year-round.

Players can explore orbital wrecks, satellites, asteroids, and platforms for valuable loot and resources.

Players can explore new biomes and landmarks while traveling with their gravship.

Players can find gravcores to build upgrades like gravship extenders, shield generators, and pilot subpersona cores.

Players can build small, short-range vessels called passenger shuttles for quick travel.

Players can build and expand a mobile colony called a gravship, which can travel around the planet and into orbit.

A new scenario designed for experienced players where you start with a functional gravship and must survive against mechanoids.

Maps now feature dynamic terrain changes and new weather types that affect gameplay, including flooding and toxic rain.

Over 45 landmarks added, such as abandoned colonies and ancient garrisons, which can be explored and utilized.

Five new biomes added: Glowforests, Lava Fields, Scarlands, Grasslands, and Glacial Plains, each with unique survival challenges.

Odyssey introduces over 85 dynamic map features including lava caves, obsidian deposits, and hippo habitats.

New biomes include glowforest, scarlands, grasslands, glacial plains, and lava fields.

The fifth expansion, RimWorld - Odyssey, introduces new gameplay mechanics and biomes.

Landmarks add variety to maps and introduce explorable underground areas.

Players can build a gravship to travel across the planet and explore new locations.

New versatile planning tools allow for better base design.

Players can pitch temporary camps while traveling as a caravan.

Players can discover new quests involving hunting, raiding, and exploring.

A new system allows colonists to find and use special weapons.

New animals can be tamed, trained, and utilized in various ways.

Optimizations for late game colonies, including multithreaded pathfinding and lighting.

Infected animals now visually represent their condition more clearly.

Blueprints can now be placed over existing buildings for upgrades.

Enhanced search functionality for finding items and saves.

Chickens, ducks, and geese can now fly, improving their mobility.

Colonists are less affected by mediocre or awful bedrooms.