Biotech (DLC) - RimWorld Wiki (2024)

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Biotech is a DLC for RimWorld that focuses on children and reproduction, expanding on mechanoids, and xenohumans/genetic modification. It was released on October 21 2022. Upon release, it has managed to become one of the highest grossing DLCs on Steam.

Contents

  • 1 Features
  • 2 Children and reproduction
  • 3 The mechanitor
  • 4 Gene modding
  • 5 Gallery

Features[edit]

  • Control mechanoids, including many new mechanoid types, by making your colonist into a mechanitor
  • Raise babies and children. Reproduce and create families - by both natural and artificial means
  • Genetically-modify children and adults, and interact with new gene-modded factions

Children and reproduction[edit]

With Biotech, colonists (and outsiders) can become pregnant and give birth. Pregnancy can begin naturally, or via technological means, and can be controlled by a variety of methods.

Babies bring joy, but also challenges. Colonists’ hearts will melt when the baby coos and giggles in their arms. But it takes effort to keep a baby happy and healthy and loved - create a safe haven for them in a cozy pastel nursery where there is always warm milk, a comfortable crib, overflowing toy chests and kind caregivers.

They grow up fast (especially if you use a growth vat) - soon your child will be walking, talking, and getting into trouble. They’ll soak up knowledge in the classroom and tag along with adults to watch them work. Kids find many ways to entertain themselves with art, exploring nature, playing with technology, and more. Teach them lessons and they’ll learn how to survive, cook, make friends, create art, build, craft, hunt, and fight. Watch as they grow up and make mistakes, lose loved ones, and survive hardships.

A rich childhood makes a capable adult. Every few years, you choose which traits and passions a child will develop. The better-raised a child is, with smarter education and more attention, the more choices you’ll have, and the better their chances are to become a happy and talented adult. Some colonies will sacrifice everything to give a child the best upbringing, while others will use growth vats to pump out cheap workers and soldiers. The choice is up to you.

The mechanitor[edit]

Build and control mechanoids by making your colonist into a mechanitor - a person with a special brain implant that lets them psychically command semi-living machines.

Create mechanoids by growing them inside high-tech gestator tanks. Command the original centipede, lancer, and scyther, plus a wide variety of new combat and labor mechanoids. Grow your swarm from a few small workers and fighters to a fearsome squadron of massive ultratech war machines and industrial behemoths.

Mechanoid laborers can manufacture goods, rescue and tend to your colonists, build and repair structures, sow and harvest crops, haul stuff, and more. They never get sick. They don’t freeze in the snow or get poisoned in toxic fallout. They don’t suffer mental breaks from long hours in dark mineshafts or filthy garbage yards.

Combat mechanoids are very diverse in form and function. Some are cheap swarmers that overwhelm the enemy with numbers. Others project shields over their allies, or roast enemies with beam weapons, or charge up for massive concrete-melting hellsphere attacks. Mechanoids wield melee claws and blades, sniper weapons, even flamethrowers. Depending on which mechanoids you command, your tactical options will vary dramatically.

Mechanoid infrastructure has a special price: Pollution. Gestating or charging colony mechanoids creates toxic wastepacks as a harmful by-product. Left unfrozen, these toxic wastepacks deteriorate and leak pollutants into the environment, creating pollution. Pollution makes living things sick. It poisons your colonists and pets. It blocks the sunlight with smog and irritates your colonists’ lungs. It triggers hibernating insects to emerge on the planet’s surface. Some areas of the planet are so polluted that only twisted, toxin-adapted variants of plants and animals can survive there. Pollution is a challenge that you can handle in a variety of ways - storage by freezing, disposal through transport pods (creating pollution on the World Map which neighboring factions dislike), use of Polux trees, or high-tech destruction through wastepack atomizers.

Advance your mechanitor’s capabilities by acquiring ancient mechanoid technology. This means calling dangerous new super-mechanoids to attack, in order to defeat them and steal technology from their smoking corpses. There are three types of hyper-deadly commander mechs to fight, each with its own weapons and combat style. Be sure you’re ready before you call these machine beasts to attack. Learn enough, and some day, you may command them as your own.

Gene modding[edit]

You can genetically-modify people to create xenohumans - humans with exotic traits. Genetic modifications range from subtle personality traits and eye color to hulking furry bodies, glands for fire-breathing, rapid regeneration, and even immortality.

The world contains a new set of xenohuman types and factions, including unstoppable super soldiers, fur-covered animal-controlling arctic settlers, toxin-immune human bioweapons, fire-breathing horned desert imp-people, psychic-bonding concubines, and more. The darkest of them drink blood, live in shadows, and live forever.

You can make your own xenotypes from scratch, and build infrastructure in your colony to enhance your people. Curate a collection of exotic genes by purchasing them from traders, accepting them as quest rewards, or extracting them from your menagerie of xenohuman prisoners. You can harvest the genes from anyone and implant those genes into your colonists and prisoners. You can also recombine genes to make bizarre and advantageous mixes of traits for implantation. Experiment with gene extraction and recombination to build your colony of xenohumans!

Gallery[edit]

  • Classroom

  • Impids

  • Pigskins

  • Genelab

  • Mechanoid factory

  • Diabolus

  • Mechanoids working

  • Mechs approach

  • Sanguophage base

  • Apocriton revives

  • Insects

  • Final battle

Families
Relationships (ReproductionChildren)
Life stages (BabiesChildrenAdults)
Furniture (CribBaby sleeping spotGrowth vatToy boxBaby decorationSchool deskBlackboard)
Mechanoids
Laborers (AgrihandCleansweeperConstructoidFabricorLifterParamedicTunneler)
Combatants (CenturionLegionaryMilitorScorcherTesseron)
Commanders (ApocritonDiabolusWar queenWar urchin)
Mechanitors
Control (MechlinkBand nodeMech boostersMech signallersControl packAirwire headset)
Mechanoid creation (Basic subcoreStandard subcoreHigh subcoreSubcore encoderSubcore softscannerSubcore ripscannerMech gestator)
Maintenance (Mech recharger)
Genetics
Xenohumans (DirtmolesGeniesHighmatesHussarsImpidsNeanderthalsPigskinsSanguophagesWastersYttakin)
Genes GermlineXenogeneMetabolic efficiency
Genetic Modification GenepackGene extractorGene bankGene assemblerGene processorXenogermArchite capsules
Deathrest (Deathrest acceleratorDeathrest capacity serumDeathrest casketGlucosoid pumpHemogen amplifierHemopumpPsychofluid pump)
Pollution
Nature (ToxalopeToxipotato plantWaste ratGray pine treePebble cactusRat palm treeWitchwood treeStasis cocoon)
Mitigation (WastepacksAtomizersPollution pumpsPolux trees)
Adaptation Face maskGas maskTox grenadesTox packTox shellToxic needle gunToxbomb launcherDetoxifier kidneyDetoxifier lung
Nonchalance Toxifier generator

Biotech (DLC) - RimWorld Wiki (2024)

FAQs

What does biotech DLC add? ›

Biotech is a DLC for RimWorld that focuses on children and reproduction, expanding on mechanoids, and xenohumans/genetic modification. It was released on October 21 2022. Upon release, it has managed to become one of the highest grossing DLCs on Steam.

What is the age speed in RimWorld biotech? ›

By default, children biologically age at 400% speed. Upon reaching 11, their aging will linearly slow from the child aging rate until they reach 20, where they'll age at the adult aging rate, or 100% by default.

What type of game is RimWorld? ›

RimWorld is a construction and management simulation video game developed and published by Canadian-based developer Ludeon Studios.

Will biotech come to console RimWorld? ›

Biotech is still being ported for the console edition.

Should I buy Rimworld Biotech? ›

Yes, Biotech is worth it. Yes, the DLC and game do sometimes go on sale, but it is usually not a very large discount. Originally posted by boytype: Yes, Biotech is worth it.

How many gene processors can you have Rimworld? ›

Up to 100 processors can be connected, for a hard maximum of 206 complexity. Gene processors will only contribute complexity when powered.

Does RimWorld get harder over time? ›

Roughly, the Adaption Factor means Rimworld tries to make the game harder if it thinks the player is doing well, and easier if it thinks the player is doing poorly. Time passed since the deaths of colonists, and time passed since the downing of colonists are the major aspects that Adaption Factor considers.

Does age matter in RimWorld? ›

Biologically older characters will tend to have higher skills, developed by experience. They may also have gray hair and age-related health difficulties such as cataracts, a bad back, dementia, or frailty.

What age is fertile RimWorld? ›

Women's fertility increases until age 20, but starts dropping at age 28 until it reaches 0% at age 50. Men's fertility increases until age 18, but starts dropping at age 50 until it's 0% at age 90.

Does RimWorld end? ›

While RimWorld can be played for as long as you want, the game can come to an end in a few different ways. Counting all available DLC, there are 4 distinct ways to see the credits screen: Finding or building a ship to take you to the stars. Joining the court of the High Stellarch of the Empire.

Is RimWorld just Dwarf Fortress? ›

There's randomness but it's not nearly the same thing. Rimworld took DF and removed all the innovative elements to fit it into a more traditional base building game. Then yes, if you restrict yourself to some very specific elements of gameplay they can be comparable but you don't play DF for the production chains.

Is RimWorld 2D or 3D? ›

Is rimworld a 3d game? It is in fact 2d.

Can you clone in RimWorld biotech? ›

I've used the Biotech Cloning for a bit. It's not an exact clone of your original pawn. That mod copies the endo/xenogenes of the pawn, and adds a "clone" gene and the "sterile" gene to your pawn, or a random gene mutation.

Why was RimWorld removed from Australia? ›

The reasoning provided was as follows: (classification.gov.au). "In the Classification Review Board's opinion RimWorld warrants an R 18+ classification because the themes and drug use have a high impact. The overall impact of the classifiable elements in the game was high.

What does Royalty DLC add to RimWorld? ›

The Royalty DLC comes with a variety of high-tech gear, implants, and other items. New ultratech melee weapons. Royalty introduces the monosword, zeushammer, and plasmasword, and their persona variants. Persona weapons come with unique traits that can hinder or help their wielder.

Why is DLC important? ›

DLC in video games keeps things fresh, exciting and challenging for gamers to keep them coming back for more, thus extending the game's lifespan. Additionally, it provides game developers and publishers with more ways to monetize their games.

What does ideology DLC add? ›

Ideology: Different furniture, armor, and weapon art types (styles) based on Ideology. Lots of new clothing items. Slavery, new quests, and a super customizable social system that allows you to modify many core game rules to better fit your play style. New Archonexus ending.

What is the use of DLC? ›

Dlc 6mg Tablet has anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant properties. It is used for treating conditions like allergy diseases, anaphylaxis, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory skin diseases and autoimmune diseases (these diseases happen when your body's immune system attacks the body itself and causes damage).

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