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RimWorld — patch notes and updates

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RimWorld x Going Medieval bundle now available2026-03-27Hey there everyone, Going Medieval just launched in 1.0 and we're bundling RimWorld with them in the Fortresses and Frontiers Bundle! You get 10% off with the bundle, or 10% off the other game if you already own one. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/68395/Fortresses_and_Frontiers/ Going Medieval Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse. RimWorld A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psy
The winter merch collection is here! ❄️2025-11-27Hey everyone, a holiday trade caravan just arrived! 🎁 We’ve got a fresh RimWorld winter collection as well as beloved items from past drops, so this is your chance to grab something if you missed it last time. Stock is limited and the winter drop leaves the shop on Jan 11. Explore the collection on the official RimWorld merch store: https://rimworld.store/ Wondering if something will arrive before Christmas? Each item on the website has shipping estimates under “Timeline”. ❄️ RimWorld Winter Collection - Muffalo Fur Beanie: A reversible hat to keep you warm, inspired by the muffalo. - Scyther Ornament: All that danger contained in one cute d
Happy birthday, RimWorld!2025-11-04Get out the lavish meals and chocolate - RimWorld is 12 years old today! 🎂🍫 As part of our celebrations, we're running a birthday community event to celebrate the game and everyone who plays it. 🎉 We want to see your fanart and hear about your favourite colonists and get screenshots of your finest bases (as well as the utterly decimated smoking ruins of it). Thank you for another year of RimWorld, onto the next one! - All of us at Ludeon Studios RimWorld Birthday Community Event 🎂 By participating in our birthday event, you’ll be entered in a random giveaway to get our new YouTooz merch: the flocked Thrumbo figurine and Boomalope nightlig
Update 1.6.4630 released2025-10-31BOO! Happy Halloween! 🎃💀 On this spooky day, we’ve got a small RimWorld update loaded with fixes. They’re listed below in the changelog. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. Have a bug to report? You can share it with us on the official RimWorld development Discord. OoOoOoo, Tia 👻 Website | X | BlueSky | Reddit | Facebook Fixes Fix: Optimisation to JobGiver_BoardOrLeaveGravship. Fix: Animals can't fish on ocean water in some circumstances. Fix: Shuttles arriving to pick up a pawn on a pocket map will now land on the parent map instead. Fix: Grav engine floating orb graphic cut off at the top. Fix: Void structures c
Bring home a thrumbo and boomalope!2025-10-10Hello everyone, our new RimWorld thrumbo figure and boomalope nightlight are now available on YouTooz: https://youtooz.com/collections/rimworld! It's a limited edition campaign, so get yours before it ends. - Thrumbo figure: The regal thrumbo in a 4.9" flocked form for your desk. No taming required. - Boomalope night light: Recharge beside this slumbering boomalope and let its gentle glow light your nights. We also have a Steam sale going on for RimWorld and several expansions until Oct 24 to celebrate the game’s upcoming 12th birthday! 🎉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/ 10% off Anomaly 10% off Biotech 15% off Ideology 15%
Update 1.6.4566 improves gravships, shuttles, and more2025-08-28Hello everyone, we’ve got a content update for RimWorld today! Gravships have received some quality-of-life changes. The new gravship launch interface lets you get your colony's animals and mechanoids onboard, and kicks visitors out. This makes takeoffs feel better and prevents accidental kidnappings. The pilot console now has a "view range" tool that shows your gravship's range without going through the whole launch process. Shuttles can now safely land on items, and they no longer obliterate a ton of roof when landing inside buildings - only the necessary roof. When you’re in orbit, colonists won't automatically take off their life-saving,
Update 1.6.4543 released2025-08-06Hi everyone, we just released a small update for RimWorld. Have you reached Odyssey’s ending? There’s now a new epic song that plays! We also fixed an issue where quest shuttles attempted to land on water, which caused them to teleport into your buildings. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. If you need to report a bug, or you’re having a problem while playing, please join us on the official RimWorld development Discord. Bye for now, - Tia Website | X | BlueSky | Reddit | Facebook Changelog Changed Odyssey’s end credits music to use the correct track. Changed music track “Impermanent Waves” to be a non-combat song on
Update 1.6.4535 released2025-07-29Hello, we’re back with another update for RimWorld! If you need to report a bug, or you’re having a problem while playing, please join us on the official RimWorld development Discord. Today’s update fixes several issues people were experiencing with Odyssey. This includes multiple corner problems where buildings through corners affected room roles, beds could become prisoner beds through corners, and enemies could set fire to your stuff through corners. It also fixes diagonal walls leaking room vacuum under certain circumstances, issues with player shuttles being lost to water, as well as gravship launches causing your electrical connections
Update 1.6.4528 released2025-07-22Hello! It’s been almost 2 weeks since Odyssey came out, and we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and incorporating your feedback. If you’d like to help us by reporting a bug, please join the official RimWorld development Discord. Today’s update has improvements and fixes for RimWorld, Odyssey, and the other expansions. This includes things like removing the -3 soaking wet thought when swimming for recreation and reducing memory usage overall. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. P.S. Send us your gravships on X or BlueSky by mentioning the @LudeonStudios account! - Tia Website | X | BlueSky | Reddit | Facebook Changelo
Odyssey expansion and update 1.6 out now!2025-07-11The RimWorld - Odyssey expansion is out now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3022790/RimWorld__Odyssey/ We’re celebrating Odyssey’s release with a sale on all past RimWorld products. Get 20% off RimWorld, 15% off Royalty and Ideology, and 10% off Biotech and Anomaly! Update 1.6 RimWorld’s free update 1.6 is out now - you don’t need to own Odyssey to get it. This update brings massive performance improvements, reworked map generation, flying animals, and quality-of-life changes across caravans, plans, building, UI, and more. Read more about it here or check out the changelog here. Compatibility FAQ Unmodded savegames from 1.5 will load in 1
Odyssey preview #4: Quests, the mechhive endgame, drones, and more2025-07-09Hello everyone. Odyssey launches in a couple of days on July 11, 2025! We’ve had a lot of fun sharing the previews with you guys. So many great comments, fanart, videos, analyses, and theories. Your 1.6 feedback has also been awesome during the unstable beta. Today’s final preview is a bit of a grab bag. We’re covering quests, the mechhive endgame, new drone traps, unique weapons, miscellaneous stuff, and languages. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3022790/RimWorld__Odyssey/ Reminder to please wishlist Odyssey so that Steam tells you the minute it’s out. Let’s go! New quests: rumors, ruins, and orbital adventures Odyssey adds new quests tha
Odyssey preview #3: Animals, training, and fishing2025-07-04Hello! We’re only one week away from Odyssey’s release! The new expansion launches on July 11, 2025. Please wishlist so you’re notified when it’s out. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3022790/RimWorld__Odyssey/ Today’s blog post looks at the creatures of Odyssey - over 40 new animals, additional ways to train pets, and quests built around legendary beasts. Plus, we’ll talk about fishing as a new way to feed your colony. New animals Odyssey adds over 40 new animals to the world - creatures you can tame, train to work, trade for silver, bring in caravans, or raise into a loyal pack of bodyguards. Let’s look at a few favourites. Crows, flaming
Odyssey preview #2: Gravships and space2025-06-27Hey again! We’re back with our second blog post about the upcoming Odyssey expansion. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3022790 Release date: Odyssey comes out on July 11, 2025! (If you missed the announcement, you can check it out here.) Wishlist Odyssey so Steam will let you know when it’s out! Today’s blog describes Odyssey’s headline feature: the gravship. Your gravship is your flying home - a mobile colony you build, expand, move around the planet, and launch into orbit. Let’s get into it. The gravship: your traveling base It starts when a grav engine falls from the sky, still functional despite the crash. Along with some salvaged gravl
Odyssey preview #1: Map features, landmarks, and biomes2025-06-19Hey everyone! We’re back with the first Odyssey blog post where we take a closer look at the expansion’s new content. We’ll be posting leading up to release - which is in approximately 3 weeks. If you missed Odyssey’s announcement, check it out here, and please wishlist Odyssey on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3022790/RimWorld__Odyssey/ Today’s post is all about the planet. We look at the map features and landmark system, five new biomes, and new weather types. We spent a lot of time on new map generation systems and content in Odyssey. For the gravship to be fun, you need new and exciting places to travel to! (And don’t worry, we
Announcing Odyssey and update 1.6!2025-06-11Hey everyone, it’s time. We’re thrilled to announce RimWorld’s fifth expansion, RimWorld - Odyssey! Odyssey enriches the world and expands your adventure beyond a single map. Build a gravship - your flying home - to travel across the planet. Settle in new biomes filled with diverse landforms and exotic wildlife. Go on quests to hunt the alpha thrumbo or raid ancient cryptosleep bunkers. Launch into orbit and scavenge tech from space stations and asteroids. But out in the void, an ancient machine mind stirs… The free 1.6 update for the base game will also launch at the same time as Odyssey! 1.6 includes big performance improvements, quality of
New merch arrivals have crashlanded!2025-05-06Hey everyone, we've teamed up with FanGamer to bring you a new wave of RimWorld merch! (And three makes the perfect start.) All items are available now on the Worldwide store and the EU store! The new FanGamer collection includes: Wisest Creature T-Shirt: Soft, thrumbo-grade apparel, plus a unique Thrumbo stamp sticker. The Storytellers T-Shirt: Featuring Cassandra, Phoebe, and Randy, as well as a RimWorld logo sticker. Home Base Desk Mat: 35x16" of colony to play on. (Hidden conduits only.) Hope to see you in the wild wearing these! Ludeon Studios
The RimWorld merch store is live until Jan 9!2024-11-22Hi everyone, the official RimWorld merch store is live, but only until Jan 9, 2025! We're sending out transport pods with our new Randy Random hoodie, muffalo plush, megasloth plush (plus wool), and RimWorld sticker pack! They're all available here: https://rimworld.store/ And a little reminder that you can keep up to date with all things RimWorld on our X, Reddit, and website. - Ludeon Studios
Get the Terraform Titans Duo: Oxygen Not Included x RimWorld!2024-11-21Hi there, we're back with the Terraform Titans Duo where you'll get the ultimate survival and strategy experience! With Oxygen Not Included and RimWorld, you'll master resource management, build intricate bases, conquer hostile planets and face unpredictable challenges. These two critically acclaimed games offer endless hours of creativity, strategy, and survival in harsh, off-world environments on the soil and in the stars! Get 20% off with the bundle! And if you already own one of the games, get 20% off the other! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46465/Terraform_Titans_Duo/ Oxygen Not Included: Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony sim
RimWorld’s birthday and community event!2024-10-08RimWorld turns 11 years old on November 4th! To celebrate, we’re holding a birthday community event to showcase all things RimWorld. 🎂 Everyone that participates (and follows the rules below) will be entered in a random giveaway for one of three sets of YouTooz’s War Queen figure and RimWorld pin sets! We've also got a small update for RimWorld in version 1.5.4241, and the changelog is below. Thank you so much for continuing to support and show your love for our game over the last decade. Happy birthday RimWorld! 🎉 - Ludeon Studios RimWorld Birthday Community Event 🎂 By participating in our birthday event, you’ll be entered in a random giv
Bow down to the War Queen! (Plus RimWorld enamel pins)2024-10-04Hey there, we're excited to share that our majestic vinyl War Queen figure and RimWorld enamel pin set are now available on YouTooz for the next 4 weeks! War Queen vinyl figure: We sent out a signal pulse... and a War Queen responded! She'll make a great addition to your colony at home. RimWorld enamel pin set: Features 5 RimWorld-themed designs including: - RimWorld logo - "Ate without table -3" thought - Crashlanded colonist - Scyther - Thrumbo We're also running a birthday month sale for RimWorld and its expansions until Oct 18. 🎉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/ RimWorld Biotech Ideology RoyaltyLong live the War Queen!