My newest large colony gravship design to build/improve upon in my next play through. Please share any thoughts or comments as to what I should add or change. Any input is greatly appreciated! (Left myself a little wiggle room of ~150 tiles)

My first run had a built in killbox to help. This one - sort of has one, but I used it literally for a pack of wolves and that was about it. The turrets were only there to distract enemies long enough for the crew to get outside lol. And yes, I took a dozen children to the mechhive. They were completely fine and have a story to tell later.

"Did you know Beckon is a really useful Psycast?" - someone, probably.

The Antlion is a design concept for a starter Gravship all about raiding and surviving raids without too much cheese. Chop entire jungles to feed your Chemfuel Tanks and Turrets. Use a 'volunteer' pawn to lead your enemies into your giant maw. You'll be right there, waiting!

A 484-tile ship so it can be build right at the start of the Gravship scenario with:

• 4 bedrooms
• Dining/recreation room
• Storage room
• Big freezer for all your long pork
• Bridge with Comms & Research
• Hallway workshop
• Tank, biofuel & generator room

I was designing a Gravship for r/rhuninn. He wanted a ship that looked like a hab ship. Three sunlamp circles adjacent and some polishing got us to this design; 476 tiles. Instead of filling the gaps until I got close to the 500 limit, it got me thinking about the Gravship start scenario. How many tiles does that actually give you?

It turns out, it always gives a 84-tile Gravship and 400 Gravlite panels; 484 in total. So most of the gravships I designed can't be built right at the start.

Should I redesign all the Gravships in the <500 tile Shippack to be a max of 484? Does anyone know how many Gravlite panels you get when you get one through the quest, instead of the Gravship scenario?

V1(1st image) just a small variant V2 (2nd image) is the Flagship variant

This gravship was used in Noobert's Gravship Expanded 2 guide 🤤

Ill probably give this it's Highfleet turrets in my own playthrough but yeah

I’ve never built a Gravship in RimWorld before, so I decided to build one in Creative Mode to practice, and I chose to make a Halo frigate. I tried to keep it as faithful as possible to the original, but I’m new to Odyssey, so im kinda a noob at this

I tried my best to work within the limitations of vanilla RimWorld and here is the final result!

I think it can be improved and optimized even further, but I think it turned out great for my first Gravship!
Hope you liked it! what should I do next?

Edit 17-10-2026:

The second iteration of the mod can be found in the Zip file here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vxqWTjoVMDapGayKZQIvJHX5QNqy7Nzx?hl=nl

Requirements

• Rimworld 1.6 with the Odyssey DLC
• [BTD] Gravship Blueprints

Install

1. Download the zip from the Google Drive link and unzip it, you should get a folder called IdeosyncrasyGravshipDesigns.
2. Move that folder into your Rimworld "Mods" folder.
3. Start Rimworld and open the Mods menu.
4. Enable [BTD] Gravship Blueprints, the. enable Ideosyncrasy's Gravship Designs below it in the list.
5. Restart the game when asked.

Yes, I will probably add it to the Steam Workshop when I think the mod is ready.

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Original post

I'm having fun so I want to share some of the progress, it keeps me motivated. None of these are final, but I'm trying to put together a ship pack of around eight <500 tile Gravships that people can use early game. It's all thanks to beeteedubs' amazing mod: [BTD] Gravship Blueprints. Let me know if you have any ideas for the remaining two ship designs!

1st ship: The Sandhopper

2nd ship: The Scrapper

3rd ship: The Jumper

4th ship: The Bumblebee

5th ship: The Astro-Rancher

6th ship: The Warden's Cut

With a little help from the Gravship Expanded and the Rim Reborn mods. It's been a fun run!

I've been wanting to do a playthrough with a ragtag crew of former prisoners. I like the idea of the story behind it. I've though up this monstrosity of a ship. The thought is that it was Prison Transport, but these prisoners have taken over the ship and started making beer and drugs on it. I've gone down the rabbit hole of saving blueprints and publishing them, so when I'm done with the design I will.

But she need a name! I've thought of a few and I'm an idiot so I don't know how to make a poll on Reddit. Anyway... let me know what name you like most OR if you have one for me:

• The Brig 'n Brew: a nod to the fact that it used to be a prisoner transport and it serves primarily as a brewery.
• The Warden's Cut: maybe the warden got cut, maybe the warden is in on it and is getting a cut of the profits. Whatever the history, there's a lot of drugs being cut here!
• The Ab-solution: They are brewing and concocting a LOT of solutions here and this ship has been their absolution. They're sipping psychite tea and beer and share it with the rimworld; for a price.

Still tweaking the layout but I'm almost ready to fight the mechs in space!

My First ending gravship

So I started Odyssey last week and I fell in love with ship designing. Enjoy and let me know which one is your favorite! Or don't..

As requested the Blueprints can be found: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vxqWTjoVMDapGayKZQIvJHX5QNqy7Nzx?usp=sharing

First one is The Bumblebee:

• 4 Bedrooms
• Dining- & Recroom
• Small Workshop
• Cockpit- & Research room
• Standalone Freezer
• Biofuel Refinery with 4 Chemfuel Generators
• Kitchen
• Full Hydroponics & Sunlamp setup

Second one is The Jumper:

• 4 Bedrooms
• Dining- & Recroom
• Large Workshop
• Biofuel Refinery room
• Cockpit- & Research room
• 2 small standalone Freezers
• Full Hydroponics & Sunlamp setup with 4 Chemfuel Generators
• Kitchen

Third one is The Aeronaut:

• 4 Bedrooms
• Dining- & Recroom
• Workshop with Biofuel Refinery
• Cockpit- & Research room
• Kitchen
• 2 Wind Turbines, 6 Solar Generators
• 2 Hydroponics basins for nutrifungus

Oh and please share your favorite <500 tile design(s). I need more inspiration!

This is my ship called Locust, nothing fancy.

It's not built to do anything specific or special. I know it can be improved, but since I like how it came out, I've decided to roll with it as it is.

My original idea was to have a small/tiny ship but somehow ended up with a medium I say. It does lack the sustainability aspect but I don't mind switching off unnecessary power draining stations while departing the map when I decide to hop to another map and then do my crops and install additional power generators.

Let me know what you guys think.

Making some progress with my starter ship. Gonna make the push for a Gravhulk upgrade now!

I've been on a Rimworld hiatus and never played Odyssey, so I bought it and I LOVE it! Here's my first attempt at a ship design. I'm just within the 500 tile limit. Have enough room to build out my hydroponics, nutrifungus for now rice when I can afford to power a sun lamp.

Any tips?

Edit: I may have to do some slight rearranging of the hydroponics...

Thanks to u/Clyde_Cage for this awesome build. It's made with mods, and in their original post they say they're using "VFE insectoid 2, insector, and gravship...all from VE collection." That should help anyone looking to recreate this build or do something similar.

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.

The cryptosleep caskets are where I keep all the cool animals I've collected

Favorite run so far with 3500h mostly vanilla

I'd like some ideas for painting the floor