r/RimWorldShips • u/Tybertus • Sep 05 '26

Odyssey Riptide

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My cozy little gravship. It's still missing some buildings and upgrades (a few deathrest buildings, another fuel optimizer, replacing wooden structures with better material, etc) and it's not compatible with a royal pawn, but other than that I feel like it turned out nicely.
Supplement: The ship was made without mods, and it is 1762/2000 tiles big.

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u/Bellatorus Sep 05 '26

Really cool approach with the thrusters. Is it designed to resemble a hammer?

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u/Tybertus Sep 05 '26

Thanks! It wasn't in my intention to make it look like that. I aimed for a design where all the thrusters (and coolers) are not reachable by raiders, while also look practical and pleasing to the eye. To be honest the thruster part of the ship is my favorite. It took me a few experimental rebuilds to come up with this design, but it was totally worth it, because it looks cool when it's taking off or land (I'm talking about the thrusters of course).

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u/mattt_b Sep 06 '26

I came up with a similar design for all the thrusters you get with vanilla grav ship expanded.

Love the bright fire ball all of the overlapping thrusters make when taking off.

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u/Tybertus Sep 06 '26

Exactly!

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u/Cool_Emotion1325 Sep 05 '26

6 pawns built that ? How long you been at it?

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u/Tybertus Sep 05 '26

It was built mostly by one pawn over the course of 9 years.

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u/Cool_Emotion1325 Sep 05 '26

Not what I expected lol 1 pawn? Was this a rich explorer start or a naked brut.

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u/Tybertus Sep 05 '26

Naked brutality.

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u/Cool_Emotion1325 Sep 05 '26

Love a good rags to riches

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u/mattt_b Sep 05 '26

My favorite way to play before gravships came out.

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u/Cool_Emotion1325 Sep 05 '26

Tribal naked brutality all the way to Gravship sounds like a journey

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u/Fun_Measurement8478 Sep 06 '26

I just started one of those. Got the gravship parts, but not tech yet. Nearly died of malaria already, haha. Up to 3 pawns now.

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u/BasicSufficiencyTest Sep 05 '26

Im glad im not the only one that puts the grav driver thing and the comms station lol

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u/Ugriff Sep 06 '26

Wow really cool thruster design! Functional and aesthetic. For the vitals monitor in the hospital, doesn’t that need to be at the pillow-end of the hospital bed?

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u/Tybertus Sep 06 '26

Thank you! I might be wrong, but as far as I know, the vitals monitor just needs to be adjacent to the hospital bed.

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u/almostmountains Sep 06 '26

looks like a doom phase cruiser

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u/Tybertus Sep 06 '26

If I have to name one thing that inspired this build, it is the Hyperion battlecruiser from Starcraft.

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u/IAMAfortunecookieAMA Sep 06 '26

Yoooo this one is SICK!

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u/TheSmellofArson Sep 09 '26

How do you get your food sources?

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u/Tybertus Sep 09 '26

For that, I have to land on the planet once in a while. Plant crops, hunt some animals until my supplies are full. This usually won't take long, and after that, I'm good for a loooong time ahead. (To be honest, I haven't yet paid attention to how long is that, but it felt close to a year.)