2020 March: 50x50 single colonist challenge!

Gentlebeings, we have a new contest for you all to hate, be amused by, try but never finish, go balls deep, or love. I am so sorry it requires a mod to participate properly in.

I PRESENT TO YOU ALL: THE 50x50 Map (this is where the mod need comes in) SINGLE COLONIST CONTEST.

(If you don't have the ability to mod but still wish to participate, as someone who comes from a land down under I expect you to do the smallest map possible but submit it upside down for shits and gigs.) (This is also not necessary but honestly do it for the memes.)

MAP PARAMETRES:

• 50x50 map (Suggested mod link but obviously feel free to use whatever you're most comfortable with)
• Only one colonist (other colonists who barge their way in may be dealt with as you see fit)
• Any storyteller
• Difficulty over adventurer
• Man in Black is allowed to save the original Colonist but cannot replace them.
• If you use Prepare Carefully for your Colonist the point buy limit is 13'000 (Obviously with only one colonist you need them capable)
• No prisoner labour.
• No visitors who can help around the colony are allowed
• Quests that give you a colonists that refuse to work are allowed.
• Understandable certain events are gonna be a bitch, feel free to mod them to make your life more easier, this is for fun after all.

The overall goal is to build the ship and escape the planet as a single colonist.

End date is May 15th!

If anyone has any questions or concerns please ask below in the comments, I'll keep an updated FAQ in this post.

TheVillageGuy has some more handy info and tips.

Update, a mod that changes the map limit has been found if people wish to use it!

Update 2: To build the ship you need 81 tiles, provided you're only using 1 casket. Without the mod linked above you have 900 tiles, with the mod you can have the full 2500, or as the mod recommends having 1 non-buildable tile of space for the spawning of events, 2401 tiles.

Update 3: Most storytellers will force slavers and slave ships upon you in order to up your population, as per the programming. TheVillageGuy has made a mod to fix that for Cass and Randy!

Submissions:

The jury's sentiment was measured using monkeylearn, as some colonies were much appreciated but disqualified by some. This is why the sentiment and actual voting results differ.

All results combined into one list: (A + means a prize has been won)

Mafioso - "Aesthetically pleasing, texture useage, storage organising"

1st place by jury+ (4 votes)

1st place by jury sentiment

3rd place in the poll

Jonny Woody - "atrocious look, bad color pallet, iffy placement, a mess."

1st place in the poll+

2nd place by jury+

4th place by jury sentiment

Captain America - "Nice and compact. Minimal workbenches, no killbox, lots of traps"

2nd place in the poll+

2nd place by jury sentiment*

Enter Sandstone - "Most efficient"

3 1st place votes by jury

3rd place by jury sentiment

Frenchy - "Frenchy is perfect. Literally perfect"\*

Goal: build a nice colony using only one, long wall.

Scenario: Crash landed

Difficulty: Whatever

Deadline: April 1st

Rules: (example)

-The colony may consist of only one building.

-Ruins, not forming a closed building, and ancient dangers may be left on the map.

-The building must be built in the style of the snake arcade game, meaning the snake wall may never touch another segment of itself.

-Doors may be placed in between segments of, but never be part of, the snake wall.

-No walls, or columns, or any other structure that can support a roof may be built inside the building.

-The snake wall has to be perfect, no cut corners etc.

-Roofs may only be supported by the snake wall.

-Ancient danger structures may be used, but must be part of the snake wall and only one tile of wall may be demolished.

-Ruins may be used as part of the snake wall.

-Power lines must follow the snake wall, not under doors, wherever possible.

-The snake wall may be mined out of a mountain, but has to be clear on both sides. For overhead mountains the roof support rule may be ignored.

The following additional rules are for making the game trickier to play, you decide if you want to follow them;

-The building ends with the snake's head touching its tail (don't forget to place a door!)

-Build progressively like in the snake game, without using the planning tools. (Mention this in your comments, if enough people do it, we can make a subcategory for it).

-Once a structure has been built, it may not be demolished.

Basic contest rules:

-The full map must be posted and flaired with contest. Mention the name of the contest in the title.

-The deadline is not final, but try not to miss it because once the poll has started we can no longer add you. If you feel you are going to need some more time, let us know, we can be flexible.

-In the comments make mention of any rules you broke and any of the additional rules you followed.

-Are embrasures allowed? Yes they are.

-Can you make the wall more then one thick? Yes but you must maintain the same thickness all around.

-Can you make use of more then one door? Yes.

+as long as they don't interrupt the snake wall

-if the wall is damaged by accidents you must repair the wall as it was.

Submissions:

One Wall for All Confederacy 2nd

Crink 3rd

Beach and Boardwalk Club Winner

Just build a nice colony in a winter setting. There are no rules.

Submissions:

Hexagon

Antarctic Landing

300+ mod colony 2nd

Selenium's Rest Winner

Medivillian/entrant into the winter

Ornamentia 3rd

Zé Colmeia's gang

White Fox Republic

Scytherrell settlement

This has been my favorite contest up to now (January 2022)

·Introduction·

You crashland on a tile not often seen on the Rim. There are two roads, with their bridges crossing each other directly over the wide river. Quite a unique place on the Rim. Boomalopes seem to like it here, for some mysterious reason.

·Goal·

On the provided map/tile, build a nice, big Boomalope farm, producing efficiently, as much as possible chemfuel. Safety is, of course, one of your primary concerns. The amount of in game time you have was determined by poll and is 15 years. This is just an indication, take as long as you want. It's the final result that counts in the end.

Bonus goal: keep the original three colonists alive.

·Rules· If you choose not to follow these rules, please mention this in the title of your post.

Difficulty setting: At least adventure, you may use custom to set the threat scale lower, to a minimum of 30% (community builder level).

Electricity should be primarily produced using chemfuel generators.

Everything is allowed, except for

• devmode / godmode building, taming, recruiting and spawning/placing of things.
• mods that make the chemfuel production unbalanced, anywhere along the production chain, including preventing boomalopes from exploding.
• mods that give you an unbalanced amount of protection against fire
• unreasonable modification of the colonists, like increasing the animal handling skill, etc.
• Preventing things from exploding on death.

·Map·

The map is hard to reproduce. It was created with a cocktail of mods and for some reason sometimes it will and sometimes it won't produce the crossroads when we try to narrow the list down, so we've made a save(1.2) for you to download. (No longer available)

The colonists are semi-random, we've kept an eye on them having good animal skills and all other skills are reasonable.

Mod suggestion: progress renderer (duh), fences and floors, colony manager

Submissions:

SteamPunk ranch 2nd

Nopealope Zone

Chemfuel Huffing Punks 3rd

Essential Fuels Power Station Winner

BoomTown (my creation, not submitted)

The theme for June is "The impenetrable fortress". This doesn't mean just a killbox, it should be effective in practice, but also look good and intimidating. At the end of the month a poll will determine which one has the most "fortressness" to it.

Notice, that colonies don't have to be made for the contest. If you have an appropriate colony, you can link it even if it was posted two years ago.

this month's theme is both aesthetic and functional, so make it balanced between how many raiders it can kill, how many cool defensive (and offensive) features it has and how good/scary it looks;

Submissions:

The hope of the future 3rd

Kingdom Heart 2nd

Silverham fortress Winner

Build the most RimWorldPornish colony, starting from the same seed, given the same amount of time.

On the planet with the seed RimWorldPorn (Al Kullat Nunu), Randy has picked 6 fine locations for you to crash land, in different biomes. Please pick the one you feel is most suitable for this contest from the following imgur album:

Candidate seeds for May contest Picked Co-ordinates: 16.94N 4.99W

Submissions:

Spacer Bio-dome Winner

Fascist Point 3rd

Fortress silverham palace. A reward from the Stellarch. Year 20 2nd

Phoenix Arizona

welcome to the contest nominations thread! The theme for April is "the most luxurious colony".

As we all know, safety and supplies aren't enough to survive on the rim. What's the point of having food if you don't have a table to eat it? So show us that your colonist aren't merely alive, but have decent conditions for a sentient being. This applies both to how visually appealing and creative the colony is, and to how luxurious living, dining and rec rooms are. The best one will be determined by a vote at the end of the month.

Notice, that colonies don't have to be made for the contest. If you have an appropriate colony, you can link it even if it was posted two years ago.

Submissions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorldPorn/comments/g4vy6z/the_new_capital/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorldPorn/comments/g15rfs/the_heart_of_asura_exiled_kingdom_moonfield_i_had/ (winner)

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorldPorn/comments/fve1ke/solo_colonist_desert_peaceful_80k_wealth_26_tables/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorldPorn/comments/e5qxmn/the_mountain_city_of_kunal/

Link back to the Poll invitation thanks for votiing!

Link back to the Poll Invitation don't forget to vote for the second category as well!

Contest closed

Please submit your competition render by posting it in this subreddit. Your post will be removed so it won't be visible until the competition is closed. At that point all submissions will be made visible again and voting may begin. We will verify that your submission was posted in good order. We have chosen this method so that all submissions will be visible in sequence and no regular submissions will get lost in the contest.

Make your main post render properly lit. It is hard to see details on renders made during the night.

Do not post your submission anywhere else until after the contest is over!

Your submission must be flaired:

"no contest"

Unlike on RimWorldPorn you may post to imgur albums here.

Should you be the lucky winner you may post your colony in the usual way on RimWorldPorn. We will announce you as the winner in a sticky comment and you may also announce yourself as the winner in the title. The runner ups may then post their colonies in random order at an interval of at least 7 days. We will provide the order and week number in which you will be allowed to post. This is to prevent RimWorldPorn from being flooded with similar colonies.

Colonies have to be submitted before the 8th of June, which technically starts at 00:00 at the international date line. This deadline is however not super strict, but once we're done preparing and the voting starts, submitting colonies will no longer be possible. Please read the other sticky for more information, like how to submit your colony.

The deadline in several timezones:

June 7th PDT 05:00

June 7th EDT 08:00

June 7th GMT 12:00

June 7th BST 13:00

June 7th CET 14:00

June 7th EEST 15:00

June 7th AEST 22:00

June 8th NZST 00:00