The RimWorld Odyssey DLC introduces the first mobile base in the form of your Gravship, and building it successfully will determine how successful you are in your campaign.
The Gravship is unlocked when you activate the new DLC, and it’s an entirely separate scenario. Once you activate it, you will start on your Gravship (instead of on a planet). You then settle down with your mobile base on a planet of your choice, and then begin to expand it with the correct resources.
Like any good sandbox, RimWorld doesn’t dictate how you should build your spaceship. However, following specific steps will make the entire process easier to carry on.
How to build your Gravship in RimWorld Odyssey?
To get your Gravship, you’ll have to select the scenario of the same name. Your Gravship can be increased exponentially, but there are some limits. How you build your ship is up to you, but the number of substructures you can connect is limited. Additionally, your Gravship also has its outer boundary; you can’t build anything outside of that area (it won’t be possible to connect them with the ship).
- Race to Gravlite Panel: Gravlite Panels are the single-most essential item for your ship. This item is required for every little thing that you can construct. There are multiple ways to get this item, including unlocking Advanced Grav Tech from the Research tab. This allows you to create your own Gravlite Panels from Plasteel and Vacstones. However, this isn’t possible when you’re just starting. Your best solution is to complete quests that reward you with Gravlite Panels till you advance from the beginning stage. You can then unlock the ability to manufacture your Panels.
- Prepare for Space: Surviving with your ship on a planet is one thing. Doing the same in space is different. You’ll have to prepare carefully, which means focusing a lot on your Gravship parts. You’ll encounter Vacuum when you approach different asteroids, and the easiest way to counter it is by making your crew wear Vacsuits and Vacsuit Helmets. Alternatively, you’ll have to use Gravship wall, Vac Barriers, and Oxygen Pumps to protect your survivors. It’s just easier to make them wear Vacsuits, which can be unlocked using research.
- Don’t run out of fuel: Managing power is crucial unless you want it to shut down. If that happens, your settlers are dead. Chemfuel is required to power the thrusters that allow you to move your ship in Space. To power up the ship, you can use Solar Power and store the additional energy in the battery.
The points above will make sure that your Gravship is safe on land and in outer space. Next, we take a look at how to explore the space and complete various objectives in RimWorld Odyssey.
- Build more Thrusters: Every ship has two types of thrusters: Small and Large. The two types have different requirements to build them, and both require Chemfuel. The Chemfuel requirement doesn’t go up based on how many thrusters you have. Instead, they only depend on the distance that you want to cover, and it’s always better to have more thrusters than fewer. All the required items can be found on both land and space (barring Space Rock, which isn’t found on planets).
- Get Gravcores: Your Gravship will need to become bigger as you get more settlers on it. Gravcores can be obtained by completing different quests. These items will increase the boundary of your ship, and you can add extra structures to it. These structures can be used for multiple purposes based on your needs.
The final part of building your Gravship is to look after Grav Anchors. Once you leave a map with your Gravship, it will be destroyed. This is something you’ll want to avoid at all costs. To do so, research Basic Gravtech, which will then allow you to construct a Grav Anchor.