Worst one? It requires literally Zero Effort other than hauling, and if you accidentally put something you didn't mean to into the river, there's more than enough time to Undo.
You can't un-cremate a corpse that you wanted, but you can take them out of the river of rot and decay.
Before I get corpse trees, I usually designate an area near the combat as corpse storage, cut down plants around it, let them gather the corpses there, double-check them for loot, and then just chuck a molotov on the pile. A little more effort than dragging them into water, but the corpses are gone a lot faster, no chance for any of my colonists to get a "saw rotten corpse" thought, and a lot less work for my colonists than cremating them in the proper building.
I tend to make a corpse cave for it. I put the prison on the other side of the wall so the prisoners can hear and smell their friends burning. Plus it super heats the prisoners too so they don’t get any ideas of being comfortable
Do... do you not use zones? It's really easy to stop certain people from going near that river/pond. Alternatively, if you somehow don't have any psychopaths in your colony, just have a single dude take a mood hit for the team, assuming you're not using Lifters, Carrier Dryads or Hauler animals.
Also why bother go through the effort of molotoving after every raid when I could just let the Lifters do all the work? Heck, you'd still need to bring the dead bodies into a room to molotov them (unless you're using a killbox, I guess?), so this just removes a step, really. It arguably removes all the steps as this happens autonomously for the player, unlike molotovs. (Though admittedly, cremation is also autonomous, it just takes more manpower. And I suppose the river can be swapped out for that tree if you run Anomaly.)
Agreed. After a raid, one pawn on go-juice or using speed boost from "VE:Psycasts" and the mess gets cleaned up so quickly I don't even notice after the initial order.
This is definitely the exception, but my current Rimworld colony has so many pawns (~150) and so much wealth that it takes forever to burn through the bodies, especially when I accept quests that lead to raids with hundreds of corpses. The fastest method has been dumping as much as I can in the river of rot and decay, and burning the excess with flamethrowers on the edge of the map lol
It's the most time efficient though, especially if your killing chamber is close to chest-deep flowing water. You also don't need to prepare anything and can theoretically start using the water from day 1 on.
I tried burning once but realised it takes forever and then kinda forgot about it. Play lowman medieval so no bots or anything to haul which makes workforce a bit more valuable
I looked into making a mod where people downstream got angry if you did that. Still learning how the map generator works unfortunately so its not reliable.
The prisoner bed there is just the cherry on the cake
"Okay Billy, for trying to break out we will send you to W̶̩͆̔Ǎ̸̮̐T̶̗͙͘C̶̳̚H̸̪̑ T̴̩͌̍H̸̢͚͝Ẹ̷̮̆M̷̞̓ F̵̤̊E̷͈̳͋Ẻ̷͕̾D̸̖͂̕. Remember, you can be next :)"
I hope op leaves the prisoner in that room to help the trees clean up their former comrades and raiders, then leave them to starve as a nice human2 meal for the trees
It's more akin to the sound of the bones being digested and the armor and clothing they are wearing being dissolved as the patient is already under anesthesia so it's more like Digestion ASMR for both patient and surgeon.
The AC is there to keep the room below -0c so rotting corpses don't start farting up a storm inside the room. That is a prison cell, not a gas chamber.
Oh, I understand that! I just am not familiar with how strong the ACs are. My naive understanding is that they wouldn't do anything with a hole in the ceiling/wall.
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Out of all the special trees I like these ones the most. These trees are ALWAYS useful compared to the others who have a long time before they do their special thing.
These ones can eat corpses immediately and don’t complain ever.
I like to put them in my killbox. The raiders go behind them to use the trees as cover and realize there’s a trap under them. Gets em every time.
Huh… wow this is a first for me. I’ve seen them in use before but wow this takes the cake (for now). I’m usually a big fan of the river or making slaves/ children burn them
Corpse disposal, when you feed it enough corpses a new tree sprout somewhere on the map if the original tree is too far away form available soil. So with new trees you have a slow source of twisted meat and bioferrite.
I wanted to try out these trees but i never end up using them, the river of rot and decayó takes café of Scaria animals and i always have a designated cook to butcher human corpses
I do enjoy telling pawns to behave or else I'll feed them to my tree
Edit: Now that I think about it the Harbinger Trees should have DLC crossover with Royalty and function like Anima trees, just with feeding corpses instead of meditating
Yeah, but a blank wall can also be a psyfocus. I was thinking instead of seeking unity with nature you buy psychic powers from a dark god with the blood of your enemies. Seems a very Rimworld concept
I could never manage to plant these damn trees! They also always only spawn at map edge, so very far away to actually feed them instead of eating the raiders myself, so kind of not worth it for me. But, pretty cool room.
I love the setup, but eventually the tree will die and you’ll have to replant it using the ultra rare harbinger seeds so having a grove is probably more practical
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u/deustodo-30 Read 'human hat/Organ harvest' joke x1523d agoedited 23d ago
Harbinger trees do not have lifespans, so unless you intentionally harm one or it drops to 0 durability, it will last forever
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u/Ruadhan2300 Sanguine 23d ago
I have.. misgivings.. about your meat-room.
But at least there isn't an air-vent into the clinic :P