[RW] My Rimworld Forever Save (Until 1.7)

[MonochromeClown]

[CWs (Subject to updates, lmk if something needs to be added) nudity (no detail + most you'll see in drawings is nipples on men/flat chests), blood, gore? (mentioned), prisons/jail and pows, guns, death, child birth, pregnancy, relationship drama (cheating, potential to be read as abuse? I don't usually go there tho), child endangerment (less so recently), body modification/mutilation, body horror (roman has weird organs), supernatural, unreality, psychosis and mental breaks, vomit (mentioned, shown is a green splatter on the floor with no detail), animal death/butchering (ethical farming), slavery, unethical bio-mods (Highmates, pigskins), uhh yeah maybe just look up general Rimworld CWs if you're worried about anything else because I am running a lot of mods so I'm not totally sure]

Hello, I am here to be autistic about my current Rimworld save, Lisecki Robotics. The idea struck me to start a Rimworld forever save when I was reading the latest update to A Mechanitor's Message, a rimworld save being documented on Pushing500's tumblr blog that I've been following for awhile (And recently made fanart for, which I'd like to do more of!)... I really enjoyed the huge found family vibes the run was giving off and wanted to achieve that in my own colony. I hadn't done a longform colony for a year or so, always making new colonies but never really getting anywhere with them. My last one was Fair Hope, the one that kickstarted my worldbuild Xtabay.

Anyway- So I started a lone mechanitor run with a character I had made before but again, didn't get very far with. His name was Roman Lisecki and he generated pregnant and I knew I had a to make some kind of story about this. So the lore for this run goes as follows:

Roman grew up on a glassworld, a world who's surface was completely destroyed by orbital weaponry forcing the population to survive in giant undercities. Roman studied mechanoids, repairing and creating them. He was a respected researcher who helped contribute to the cause of restoring the surface of the planet and he even found love and married a man called Erich Shivak. He lived a good life until he stumbled across a major conspiracy, he tried to hide his knowledge of it's existence but he was found out and had his and his family's life threatened. He, his parents, his sister and Shivak (Who he had since divorced) fled the planet. Roman was pregnant at the time, another factor in his rush to leave. However their spaceship went completely off course, floating out to the rim of the galaxy and eventually colliding with space debris. Roman's cryopod was ejected onto the planet along with two mechanoids, a cleaner and a builder.... And his family was scattered around the planet, unsure if they'd ever see each other again.

Spoiler: They see each other again. It all works out! Roman has his kid and his colony grows exponentially! They're currently building mechanoids and androids alike, studying the void anomolies and hosting guests from all over the globe. As well as everyone raising their own families. Here's a picture of the main family, the Liseckis. (I hope the image isn't too big.. guh!)


From left to right we have: Roman, Jackie, Dear, Valery, Surozz, Ryo, Rosa, Naoko, Ophelia, Drazen, Niesha, Jiov and Glasses.
Some of these guys were adopted into the family. Surozz has since split with Dear but she's still part of the family in my heart.

I'm hoping to draw and complete lineups of the other families in the colony, but if you want to view all the current colonist you can check them out of my Toyhouse! https://toyhou.se/MonochromeClown/characters/folder:6854056

I might update this thread with goings on in the colony or random writing or anything else, we'll see! Thanks for listening to my ramble

[skinstealer]

it stuns us seeing how Many characters you're able to design and put in lineups like this- we used to do a lot similarly before our hands started getting kinda rough and it's so fucking cool seeing people do it and show off the range they have in designs/story characters. words are bad but yeah! i know very little about rimworld lore but i'm very curious about all these folks

[MonochromeClown]

Thank you! I'm super attached and honestly I have NEVER drawn THIS much in one piece before, it was way easier then I was expecting? Like I just- did it. Previously I lacked any motivation to do that kind of thing, I'd try and get mad and cry and quit and never attempt again but my current save has brought back so much motivation it's crazy... probably being in therapy and medicated regularly is helping too.

Here's some screenshots of the base! I'd be willing to answer any questions about it or the people. (The group shot is a little outdated, I'll post a new one once we've recruited all the prisoners).







Hope that's not too many images :^•
I tried to put the families into groups in the big group shot, though the ones in the middle are single, hence why they're all together like that.

[MonochromeClown]

The save has been going well, almost too well- I'm honestly a bit bored! I'm thinking of packing up the entire colony and moving into space or something silly like that. But everything is so pretty in the home base right now, we've been working on beautifying everything. 



All these plants are thanks to the vanilla expanded props mod. They don't move in the wind, they just sit there static-like but I don't mind it, they're super pretty and save me from having to make a million growing zones. (Also ignore the raid notification, I'm going to deal with that in a second lol



Our guest rooms have been moved and upgraded significantly, now the old guest room is a rec room complete with gambling and a swimming pool, awesome. You'll notice they're even hosting D&D sessions in the rec room, thanks to someone continuing the old Tabletop Trove - Additional Joy Objects and Decor mod which I used to use all the time in 1.2-1.4

In other news in the colony... One of the original couples Gerjorn and Shivak have divorced...

I will never fucking forgive Shivak for this, cheating on his husband, flirting with random women and now telling him HE wants a break from GERJORN??? How DARE????
RGrhrh.... anger aside, at least it's good story telling... This is a story generator I tell myself over and over when my pawns break my heart into a thousand pieces.... it's just a story generator...

T-T.....

[MonochromeClown]

Reviving this thread! I see the last update was the uh...... divorce. That goes somewhere interesting, hopefully I'll get to that as I start to update the forum to the current playthrough. Gonna be doing things a lil differently and more like how I've been doing it on my tumblr, hope yall enjoy. Any questions, headcanons, etc are very welcome these are my toys and I want to share them!!!

(Sorry for weird cropping btw, I do not have the energy to resize everything and I can't just recapture the screenshots. Gonna try to figure out a way to deal with this in future guuhhhh)



I feel as if this is important to include from the previous update before we move on to recent events. After the divorce Gerjorn adopted the wayward child Chlogan into the Beershield family. Chlogan was a child we freed from slavers who'd just been hanging around without any solid residence... I usually try to get the kids into one of the families or at least give them parents but Chlogan came off to me like he didn't really want all that, until now. I saw him feeding little Morgir (The child Gerjorn and Shivak had right before divorcing) and went yup... new beershield kiddo.

Moving on though! (From here until the current updates I'll be using the words directly from my tumblr account, with bonus commentary if I feel it needs that)




"Oof sorry for not updating consistently lately, been feeling a little dooky lately. Anyway! We went out on a little exploration for a run down town or street or something? I don't know exactly what it was but it looked like a city, anyway we found a bunch of stuff and took a couple prisoners. Not soon after we had a drop pod raid, it went mostly well but at one point something started exploding really loudly and brightly and all my colonists ran into the buildings. It eventually ended and we took out the raiders but it left a big mess! We took a couple prisoners but we're probably just going to release them."

Fun fact: For the longest time my colonist just would NOT feed the prisoners or talk to them, nothing outside medical attention. I thought my game was just bugged in some weird bullshit way but actually the culprit was the multifloors mod. It breaks the work types up so different levels can have different work types assigned to it and my ground floor just didn't have wardening on? I have no idea why... Really pissed me off for a long time, but it's fixed by the recent updates! Feel bad for my prisoners...





"Two more babies were born in the meantime, Fey and Reron. Both families are doing well, both babies are perfectly healthy as always. We're doing really good with the colony children honestly!"

Both of these children were born via a kind of surrogacy. Well you see we use universal pregnancies mod because we just don't like having biological kids locked behind straight/opposite sex couples. So both of these kids were born via having an ovum extracted and fertilized via third party and then implanted back into the mother (or father, in Jiov's case). Cav helped with Reron and Maise (pictured, the dragon) helped with Fey (as if that wasn't obvious lol). If you're wondering about lore implications... I just operate on case by case basis, some folks are strictly male or female but a lot are dualsex, if someone is pregnant it's because they have a uterus, don't worry about it okay. It works for me. Rimworld.


 

"Oh boy, these two seem to be having kids constantly atm. We still have one more saplingchild in the ground waiting to emerge... Well luckily we have plenty of space! So this isn't really a problem. Either way I'm glad these two have been so dedicated... unlike some other partners, cough shivak, cough dear.... "

The saplingchildren are a very easy way to get overpopulated fast, I swear these two- But it's okay, I enjoy big families. It's cute. Still, having to deal with two saplingkids in the dead of a volcanic winter was stressful, we ended up making a little saplingchild growing area. The snide remark at the end though uh... look those two are troublemakers, Shivak cheated on and divorced his husband right after his baby was born and Dear broke up with his pregnant girlfriend after she asked to get married (Theres no legal anything with marriage it's just commitment! He just didn't like his pregnant girlfriend that much...).



"And to top it all off we had a blood rain, we had to move all the animals inside quickly so they wouldn't go berserk but we got everyone inside safely! Thank god we decided to enclose everything otherwise we'd be having some serious problems a lot of the time. Art by my lovely wife again, thank you wife!"

"Bonus: Roman yelling at Shivak in my stead, get his ass Roman!!"



Oh yeah if you see art in here there's a high chance it was made by our wife VenusianSocket (She's on the forums, say hiiii). She's very helpful offering to do art for our updates, I'm very grateful. All else is drawn by me, like the last image. The anomalies that occur during gameplay are fine, but some are kind of boring and honestly I skip a lot of them (dev mode) because I'd rather just watch my ant simulator yknow... But for roleplay purposes I occasionally engage.

I'm going to now add CWs to the first post so be on the look out for thaaaat.

[MonochromeClown]

"We have a cute scene of the two lizardfolks swimming together, how sweet. Maybe Skrapak talking about some of her past with Bux? Who knows... Rimworld pawns just say anything."

I love my lizards. I wasn't entirely sold on them when I first downloaded the mod but Bux and Skrapak have really really influenced me, I did a little playthrough of the start that comes with the mod but I didn't go to far with it before returning to other things. But yeah, I love Saurids, they're cutes.



"Oof another rejected proposal... At least this time they didn't break up? But damn Britni you don't need to be insulting Roman like that I don't think he's ever done anything to warrant that kind of comment! Baby Jiah hatched out of her egg! A little blue thing, neither of her parents are blue so this is surprising but oh well, she's super cute. Bless!"

Oh yeah so, Saurids reproduce by laying eggs. The first time this happen I had to reload because a dog ate the egg, I've since remedied that problem (Area zoning) so no more eggs getting eaten yay. Egg laying is also kind of crazy for populating, we can manage but the kid pit (don't ask) has gotten very full in the past thanks to this. lol.



"Both Aoi and Murasaki awakened! Aoi gained the efficient trait which is super helpful and Murasaki gained Virtuoso which makes sense since our colony is full of instruments and music. Proud of you boys!"

I was wanting to do androids since the mod came out but I never had the patience to do it, it's very end game technology unless you start with the awakened androids start so I just never got there... thankfully the whole point of this save was to go for a very long time so I did get there and we have the three androids, Aoi, Murasaki and Midori. I went with japanese names just because Midori generated with hers after I decided she'd be green so I thought it'd be cute theming.

[MonochromeClown]

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"A woman name Wendy came to us seeking aid, following behind here were two very pissed off groups of raiders. But she made it safe and sound, she's REALLY good at construction so I'm considering keeping her at the colony but it remains to be seen..."

Spoilers: We keep her. I'm gonna do an updated look at all the colonists (aside from the babies) once I get to the end of these past updates.



"Ahh! They grow up so fast! Perseus came to us as a little baby and now he's all grown up (kinda) and already thinking about lovers? Calm down foxy boy! Focus on supporting your dad right now... he really needs it."

Our little drop pod baby is all grown up now, he was the second colony baby and obviously very dear to our hearts as a result. I do hope he is able to have his own family someday but he's only like 14 in the current playthrough so there's plenty of time before that happens. He's kind of a big brother to every colony kid (except Jackie and Dear), I should draw all three of them together at some point.




"And just as we were expecting the raiders to show up looking for Wendy we get an alert about sightstealers... great! Well we cleaned up most of the ones standing around our gates, thanks Aredoze for standing in the way of their horrible claws but maybe we can use the rest as fodder for the raiders?"

Roman and his uncle (and his bots) are more then enough to handle a lot of threats, after this we ended up establishing more of a military force, the battlemaidens, but sometimes the old reliable warhammer and pistol are fine.



"Well the raiders did show up and oh my god there were WAY more sightstealers then I thought- Yeah they mostly cleaned up the raiders and then we picked off the rest... and as usual someone goes into labour during the fighting- at least the baby is healthy T-T... Hi baby Sequoia."

Sightstealers aren't that scary but they group up and run you down to melee you to death, they're a huge pain if you only focus on shooting skills for defense. Regarding little deer baby, one of my favourite things about having kids in the colony is seeing how they inherit their parents genes. I run a mod that makes xenogenes inheritable because I just love when my highmate kids get kitty ears, etc.



"As a bonus heres our new recreation room! Complete with a pool, bathroom, hot tubs and anything else you might need to relax. We've come far as a colony, it's time to treat ourselves!"

I'll be sure to show off more of the colony later on, in current times the left side is now a big nursery (I named it the 'kid pit'). We're currently building a way way bigger hospital too!

[MonochromeClown]

"Apple and Klol are both 10yrs old now, Apple maxed out her growth tier while Klol fell behind sadly... But hopefully now that she's not a slave she'll have more time to grow! I think she got a decent trait anyway which is good. Laurel's kids are growing up fast, I'm glad they're doing well."

Ahh I feel so emotional when the kids start getting older, and I feel awful when they don't reach a high growth tier it always gives such sad flavor text... I really hope Klol's next growth moment will be much better. Her lizard family is giving her support at least...



"Awwh they did end up together after all! I'm so so glad and I'm glad it was Britni who asked instead of Roman pushing the subject. Love you two so much, I'm glad Roman has a beautiful hussar woman looking out for him!"

Roman has been single for four years so seeing him settle down (With a fellow asexual too!) really made my day when it happened. I hope these two keep making each other happy...




"Cute interactions within the colony, Drazen being a paternal grandpa to any kid he comes across as usual... Try not to make Apple too invested in the rocket launcher please! And Perseus is being angsty about his parent's divorce awh... poor kiddo, I hope things work out for him."

Some may question the idea of teaching children how to operate rocket launchers and I may remind you that this colony is regularly besieged by horrors beyond comprehension and war machines out for blood. She'd have to learn eventually! Perseus is his parent's eldest child I imagine the divorce was hitting him especially hard... Poor foxy boy.



"This is a sort of unexpected coupling? Surozz and Aoi have gotten together! Wow okay well... Aoi you better look after that girl and her kid, rooting for you both even if I wasn't expecting it"

This means all three of our androids are now in relationships, I'm proud of how quickly they've made lives for themselves within the colony. Especially Aoi who is the youngest. Surozz having someone to look after her is a relief too, I felt so bad about her being alone after Dear... This colony supports each other and their kids but it still must suck to be abandoned by your lover before your child can be born.

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"Niesha is pretty popular within the empire huh? Try not to be too jealous Aredoze... We had her ceremony and it went fine, got some bonus honor for the sheer size of the attendees but I couldn't help but notice Gerjorn chose to stand next to Shivak? What's going on there... Gerjorn just leave him please!"

Niesha deserves more recognition she's the colony mom and also the first pawn who joined! If it wasn't for her Roman would've been all alone with a newborn at the start of the game so I obviously appreciate her a lot... Shout out space russian mom.



"Two new pregnancies or- one new pregnancy and an egg hmm... Cav doesn't seem so sure of herself but I hope Jackie can support her through this... I do want more grandkids for Roman and she's not overly sad about the situation... Bux on the other hand must be getting overwhelmed with the amount of children by now so I'm going to probably give him or Skrapak some kind of birth control or surgery to temporarily stem the baby population."

I was going to set the younger couples to have reduced pregnancy chance but I keeeep forgetting to actually change that when they get together, until I'm jumpscared by the notification. I guess it's not unrealistic but I feel bad that Cav feels bad about it. Skrapak has a vasectomy now so they're not gonna get overwhelmed by baby lizards anymore.



"Maize and Slate got married! Pretty much the whole colony attended which makes sense everyone knows everyone and we're all pretty close (for the most part anyway). Love continues to grow in the colony!"

I should make a dedicated marriage spot at some point, too many ceremonies have happened in a bathroom... something to add to the list!

[MonochromeClown]

"First up we had a nuclear fallout event, we had to quickly get everyone and all the animals inside but we managed it. Thankfully our colony is set up in a way that makes these kind of events very easy to deal with, especially now that we're growing our crops inside our base."

I absolutely loathe these long events, at the very start of the colony we had a nuclear winter that lasted 2 years and thats why the entire colony is indoors mostly, it suuuucked and I was getting constant notifications about colonists freezing, especially Bux and Skrapak. Thankfully we are prepared for this shit now, the entire colony is temperate controlled and self sustaining with food and materials. We have plenty of silver to trade for anything we don't have... like maybe way too much silver...



"With everyone inside the pawns have been focusing on relaxing and socialising. Lots of babys to take care of so you can almost always see someone feeding or playing with one. Jackie taking care of his niece is very sweet.... if only Dear had stepped up to be a father...

Shivak as well is looking after the children, interesting. Maybe he regrets leaving his child with Gerjorn? It might be too late for their relationship but he can still be friendly with the kids..."

I actually have never seen Dear taking care of Honove or any of the kids. His first child Valery was already old enough to feed and clothe herself, I've never seen him teaching her but she's taken care of by everyone else so I've never really been worried... Maybe Surozz isn't letting him see Honove, I wouldn't blame her if she was still pissed off at him for leaving her.




"Naoko and Rosa are having a second child! I was wondering when those two would have another kid, I bet they'll be just as cute as little Ryo. Honove isn't struggling to make friends thankfully, all the kids playing in the colony as so damn cute..."

Naoko and Rosa have two kids currently and three when this one is born, Ophelia and Ryo are both great, the Lisecki family is so damn big and it makes me proud that they've all been together so long. I'm also glad Honove has had no issues even with his parent's conflict. Hopefully that remains the case...




"Boyfriends reading books together how cute! Looks like Glasses is enjoying his er... adult content. These two are always hanging out in some capacity, I'm glad this colony does have some healthy longterm relationships.

Our prisoner Impmate's partner must have died when we released him because she's pretty upset about her psychic bond breaking. Yikes, sorry about that... Maybe we could have prevented it..."

Jiov and Glasses are probably my favourite couple aside from Roman and Britni, I remember when Jiov first came to the colony as a 17yr old raider, a lot of people would ignore him because he's technically and adult by Rimworld standards but I always notice when the raids include teenagers and I try my best to avoid hurting them. Either way, these two have an incredibly solid relationship I have never seen either upset or demean the other, they've always been together since the very start of the colony.



"And here's just a couple images of the colony hanging out, I've been wanting to capture more pictures like this. Looks like a little family gathering in the second image, makes sense since it's mostly liseckis who have psychic powers."

I enjoy these little moments when pawns are hanging out in groups, there's no real mechanic for group gatherings outside parties and rituals and those are usually waay to big to keep track of so it's nice when they organically hang out in a room doing whatever.

[MonochromeClown]

"Roman's quest to understand the anomolies drives him to poke the void, to see what he can find... Hopefully something good! Meanwhile Shivak bonds with his youngest, I hope he and Morgir are still able to be close together, it'd be a shame if the divorce affects his ability to be with his children."

Ahah... Roman you've got weird organs enough already don't you? No he says, more weird organs! |

Shivak at least wants to be involved in his kids lives, when he's not busy researching that is. Getting to the end of the tech tree has freed up a lot of my pawns time, we're in a very endgame colony but I'm not done with you freaks yet.

[Following section has implications of sexual abuse and human trafficking (typical of Rimworld slavery mechanics), feel free to scroll to the next chunk of images]




"Araz is now a child! Bux and Skrapak's family are doing really well for themselves, Araz is sure to grow up very healthy and happy here! Surrounded by... many siblings. In other news we had a strange request, someone wanted us to take a Charmweaver off their hands. I feel bad for her, it seems like the woman enslaved her... and she's pregnant. I really hope she'll do better with us then trapped with her and her cohorts."

Yeah there's no real getting around the latter implication, unfortunately the way Charmweavers are handled by the mod they're oversexualised and the events to obtain them have bad implications especially with the fact that they'll usually spawn pregnant. I'm not really sure how I want to handle that in my colony... I'm open to questions about it or advice but I kind of just want to leave it for now, it's a bit of a bomb to drop so casually. I'd like to handle it more in future updates when I'm not pulling from scraps that I don't remember well now.




"The fallout has ended! Thankfully it didn't last too long, just long enough to be annoying. The colony must be relieved to go outside again."

So this update is dropping right after the last one so it might appear to be the next day, it was more like... several months? In reality? Rimworld is broken up into 15 days per month and there's 4 months in each year but every year is treated as a full earth year in terms of pawn aging... stuff gets a little confusing at times but don't worry about it. This took like maybe 2-3 months to clear out? I'll try to keep better track of the time.



"Well- for our troubles poking the void we received another obelisk. We couldn't exactly deal with it due to the fallout but as soon as we did it well.... Now we have another roman! Fun!

Only time will tell how this will end up..."

Here it is! The crux of why I started this colony, I wanted to see if I could clone one of my colonists with the twisted obelisks. I've never had the event spawn before and I find the idea of multiple selves running around physically in meatspace very fun, I wonder why lol. So now Roman has a twin, hurrah!! 

That's the last of the tumblr updates from where this thread started. I'm going to see if theres any bonus art that didn't fit in with these posts and then I'll start getting through my screenshot backlog.