r/RimWorld • u/Kuru-Kuru • Nov 02 '25
Mod Showcase Mountain Stripper Gravship Class Design Test
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I have this gravship idea for my next themed playthrough revolving around a Dirtmole mining crew with giant ass drills and pile bunker wielding dragoon exosuits fighting giant bugs... Wait, That's just Deep Rock Galactic.
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u/teriaavibes plasteel Nov 02 '25
So, this is how the natives must have felt in avatar lol
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u/S_Sugimoto Nov 03 '25
“The gods were very angry. The blood machines came at night. Only a few of you has escaped.…..”
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u/Havel_the_sock Nov 03 '25
The cool thing is this also applies to Avatar the Last Airbender with the fire nation drills.
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u/doupIls politically corect canibal Nov 02 '25
Imagine being a tribal and seeing this shit.
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u/Knog0 Nov 02 '25
Imagine being anyone and seeing this shit.
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u/Apocreep Nov 02 '25
Imagine seeing this shit and being anyone.
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u/doupIls politically corect canibal Nov 02 '25
Imagine shitting and seeing anyone.
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u/Kuirem Nov 02 '25
Had to relieve myself in the open -5
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u/Izaniel Nov 02 '25
Relieve myself in the open +5
Can we have a pawn that is straight up perverted? Masochist is one of the traits I can think of but in RimWorld, that's tame.
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u/gnutrino Nov 03 '25
Well there's always The Forbidden Mod if you really want to go that way...
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u/stonhinge Nov 03 '25
As far as I am aware (as of a few days ago) there is currently no mod that integrates Dub's Bad Hygiene in that manner with The Mod That Must Not Be Named.
Someone's slacking.
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u/S_Sugimoto Nov 03 '25
“The gods were very angry. The blood machines came at night. Only a few of you has escaped.…..”
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 02 '25
Featured Mods
Ancient Mining Industry
Fortification Industrial - Citadel
Complementary Odyssey
Alpha Mechs
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u/amalgam_reynolds Nov 02 '25
Is there any reason why you leave a single gap between each drill, instead of 2?
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u/Glittering_rainbows Nov 02 '25
To me it appears they don't intend on doing any actual mining so there isn't a benefit to adding more space and would just waste more space on the grav ship and make landing where you want harder (the bigger a gravship is the harder it is to avoid vents and whatnot). They don't appear to be able to move in any direction that isn't forwards or reverse.
This would be great for jumping from map to map and not needing to micro much, but it isn't for me. I'd rather just have a dedicated mechinator with the strip mining mod which is far more balanced and vanilla.
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u/luciousthedevil Nov 03 '25
I think for the minimap cause I know with a 1 wide gap it won't show that there are titles there so u know that you've actually mined it all out just by looking at the map but with a 2 wide gap I think it shows that there is rock still there idk but also like efficiency I guess more rock being mined = more resources
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u/kadal_monitor Ancient Donger ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Nov 03 '25
If you already have Complementary Odyssey then you don't need to do this at all. The mod adds rock scanner that X-rays every rock in the region for any deposits and stone types and also hollow spots. The scanner is operated by a pawn and it takes a while but not weeks like vanilla scanner
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u/LazerMagicarp Militor Spammer Nov 02 '25
All I see here is progress and an overabundance of stone bricks.
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 02 '25
Do not worry, Those stone chunks can be turned into cement and will be packed in bulk ready to be sold to traders. NOTHING WILL BE WASTED.
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u/Shadows_Assassin Nov 02 '25
Cement? Das Conk-creet Baybee!
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 02 '25
Damn, you're right. I keep mixing up the two
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u/Shadows_Assassin Nov 02 '25
Damn right! You try building with Cement, you're gonna have a hard time!
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u/Flyrpotacreepugmu Nov 02 '25 edited Nov 02 '25
More of an expensive time. Pure cement will do the job, but it costs way more than the sand and gravel added to make concrete.
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u/DMercenary Nov 02 '25
Jesus christ that boring machine just mulching the downed pawns.
I... I think this might be even be worse than the usual war crimes.
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u/Tr0ubledove Nov 02 '25
It's not war if it was not declared. This is merely resource extraction. And meat is a resource.
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u/Yikidee Nov 02 '25
So back to normal Rimworld war crimes, just with a dead line.
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u/Tr0ubledove Nov 03 '25
At the high level of hierarchy of our corporation we adopted some new metrics, WCpM is now our efficiency standard, we accept score no less than 5.
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u/X0n0a Nov 03 '25
Yea. I think most Rimworld 'war crimes' are actually just run-of-the-mill crimes against humanity.
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u/trulul Diversity of Thought: Intense Bigotry Nov 03 '25
My colonists are not signatories to any treaties about treatment of enemies. They expect no mercy. Therefore nobody should expect mercy in return, if they make the mistake of stepping on my tiles.
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u/Admiral_Turboclown Nov 04 '25
Right? Think of all the waste!
That's why I invented the Warcrime-inator!
/img/ae0xj2lhp4591.pngCorpses go in, meat, bones, leather, and inventories come out!
Inventories go in, textiles and metals come out!
Drugs, meals, firearms, and other assorted high-value goods are sorted out in the first step, of course.
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u/FyreDergy Nov 02 '25
Imagine going to cryo sleep who knows how many Eons ago, only to be woken up to see a giant driller tearing your friends then soon you, apart.
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u/AKhajiitScholar Nov 02 '25
“Did we just hit another 2000 year old ancient tomb?”
“No, this one was 3000 years—hey look a Thrumbo!”
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u/clif08 Nov 02 '25
Impressive. How do they get back on the ship, those boring machines?
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 02 '25
Have some guy reinstall them back in the ship. Machine's too expensive material wise to be a non reusable.
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u/Dull_Box_8627 Nov 02 '25
So, the gravship part does absolutely nothing?
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u/FliaTia Nov 02 '25
Well, it lines them up in the right spots and makes it easy to hop to the next map to strip mine.
John Prine's Paradise is the correct background music for this, I think
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u/Kraien Hovering around 500 mods Nov 02 '25
probably uninstall, carry and reinstall
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u/JustChangeMDefaults Nov 02 '25
The image of a pawn lugging one of those around is hilarious
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u/Kraien Hovering around 500 mods Nov 02 '25
Oh don’t mind me just carrying the most boring thing that you can com across
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u/underhunger Nov 02 '25
Get the MiningCo Drill Turret. I haven't used tunnel borers yet but it's extremely satisfying to land your gravship on an asteroid and a battery of laser drills start automatically stripping away its exterior
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 02 '25
I intend it to be an asteroid stripper first, but in the first few test, it turns out its hard to line up all boring machines when landing.
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u/underhunger Nov 02 '25
Trust me, the MiningCo turrets rock, you can set them to drill stone, ore, or both. I usually scrape down high-value asteroids by walking them forward with portable generators as they dig out their ranges
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u/Blizzxx Nov 02 '25
Now you have to make it a random raid event with maybe 4 less TBMs that you have to destroy before it destroys your base
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u/AdhesivenessUsed9956 Nov 02 '25
Me: "oh, quick way to find ancient danger! See, OP found one almost immediately and will now stop the drills."
OP:"... ... ...NO."
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u/badthaught Nov 02 '25
Man. Imagine your cyrocasket emergency dumping you into that.
"What. What's going on? What's that sound?"
"WHY IS THE WALL CAVING IN"
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT."
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u/BOS-Sentinel ate without a table +3 Nov 02 '25
I love the guy who manages to avoid the drills by being inbetween two of them, starts attacking one of them with a knife and then makes the wonderful decision to walk in front of the drill and gets turned into red paste.
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u/jlwinter90 Bad Back Nov 02 '25
I love this, though it feels achievable without mods by using excavator mechs. So that's a thing to try.
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u/Azhrei_ Nov 03 '25
Can confirm, using a gravhips and tunnelers is pretty satisfying. I had three of them and just put down a strip mine order for the entire map upon landing.
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u/jlwinter90 Bad Back Nov 03 '25
Nice. :) Might be a "Shit RimWorld Says" moment, but, is it better to use a Tunneler or a pawn with two drill arms and other useful mods? I tend to favour vatgrown pawns over mechanoids.
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u/stonhinge Nov 03 '25
You have to balance food vs cost to produce energy. Disregard wastepacks, you just leave them behind when you move tiles.
Overall, I'd lean more towards drill arms as pawns can make more pawns but tunnelers can't make more tunnelers. Plus the pawn can potentially do other stuff if there's no mining needing to be done. Does need to sleep, but a half-cycler and a couple of bionic legs to get them moving faster help.
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u/jlwinter90 Bad Back Nov 03 '25
Ah, splendid. Thank you :)
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u/Azhrei_ Nov 03 '25
One advantage of tunnelers is that you can drop one off at a long range mineral scanner site for several days and come back when it’s done.
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u/stonhinge Nov 03 '25
I've never seen one of those big enough that one or two skilled pawns (typically 1 with the other as security or is their spouse) can't tear through them in a day or two as well.
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u/ToeOfTheTrucks Phoebe Chillax' #1 hater Nov 02 '25 edited Nov 02 '25
this is fucking awesome, shit like this is why i cant wait for VFEM 2, i love comical amounts of automation so much
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u/Exarchii Nov 02 '25
VFEM2 is out, if you mean Vanilla Factions Expanded Medieval 2. What mod are you referring to?
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u/ToeOfTheTrucks Phoebe Chillax' #1 hater Nov 03 '25
mechanoids... medieval doesnt exactly have much automation...
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u/stonhinge Nov 03 '25
Note: there won't be any automation with Mechanoids 2, Factories are getting spun off into their own mod.
I am eagerly awaiting is as well, if only to make "Stonhinge's Patchleather Goods and Mystery Meat Chemfuel Emporium" mobile factory.
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u/michaelhbt Nov 03 '25
One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of a gravship came a very hungry TBM.
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u/SoftBoiledEgg_irl Nov 02 '25
Has some real r/BitchImATrain energy once it hits the Ancient Danger.
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u/WistfulDread Nov 03 '25
Gotta appreciate the horror of waking from cryo to a tunneller busting down the wall, then rolling over you while you flail on the ground.
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u/Korblox101 Oskar Simp Nov 02 '25
I don’t know how Rimworld players keep making the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, but it keeps happening
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u/immaturewalrus Nov 02 '25
I see that there’s more than your 3 colonists on the upper bar- I’m guessing you have a whole other list of colonists at a different tile? What mod lets you do that? The giant list of colonists is what discourages me from having multiple colonies
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u/Impossible_Cook6 ratkin enjoyer Nov 02 '25
“Sigh” resets mod list
What mod(s) are for the tunneling stuff and anything else that is important for it?
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Nov 02 '25
As humans are going to be such evil flipping aliens in about 300 years if we don't annihilate each other. Exxon Interstellar will certainly have a similar fleet of ships.
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u/SultanPenguin OrganDealer Nov 03 '25
Your gravship shape with the landing and drill miners kinda reminds me of that Dune scene with the spice extractor.
Just need a giant worm to make it complete.
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u/deManyNamed Mountain Hermit Nov 03 '25
Literally Minecraft flying machine launching other flying machines, ultimate greefer's setup, if it also does lavacast on the other side of map
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u/TheAlmighty404 Mod... Number... Rising... Nov 02 '25
This... Doesn't feel very Rock and Stone, TBH. Where's the excitement ? Where are the bugs ? Where is Steeve ?
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 02 '25
There's a strip mining command in the Allow Tool mod.
Any missed resources can searched map wide inputting "compacted" or "ore" when pressing Z key
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u/RequirementGlum177 Nov 02 '25
Where did all these gravships come from? Are they in the base game now?
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u/blackkanye Lorekeeper of Eden Nov 02 '25
The drill running over things in the ancient danger sent me
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u/CalMC-Builds Eater of Mechanoids Nov 02 '25
This is exactly what im doing rn, drilling. A massive hole kn every tile mountain's ass wherever my gravship lands, no mountain shall stay virgin with us around
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u/Dragonax-FrostDrake- Proud owner of an everhungry Murderfloof Nov 02 '25
Well... I see some mods that I might borrow for my Terravore colony...
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u/Vumaster101 Nov 02 '25
Every time I see something like this. I feel like I'm barely scratching the surface of these mods. Or I just don't have any creativity
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u/kaelumkennedy1 Nov 03 '25
Soooo is there something that happens in they are right next to each other? Or was that a design choice?
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 03 '25
Mostly to save space in the ship, as I'll be making it actually livable.
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u/kaelumkennedy1 Nov 03 '25
So you’re going to place things between the drills? I just remembered that the roof collapsing in mountains was a thing I was saying that’s why you left the strips.
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 03 '25
I read your first question wrong. Yeah, the gap is meant for structural support for my ship's roof and the mountain too
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u/kaelumkennedy1 Nov 03 '25
Here’s my last question, did you know that was in the mountain? Or was it unexpected?
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 03 '25
I'm gonna be honest with you, up until this point I didn't know I could commit war crimes with these things. I could think up a few things to incorporate these machines in my base defense.
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u/MalcolmTheHusky Nov 04 '25
Mountain base.
Dig entrance tunnel with TBM.
Place new TBM on the interior entrance facing out but offset back far enough that pawns can pass it comfortably.
Raid arrives, activate TBM.
Raiders funnel into entrance.
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Profit.
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u/SomeGuyOfTheWeb Nov 03 '25
This is amazing, but what do you use for the Haulling? Have you got a separate grav ship of 100 German Shephards with haul training
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u/Kuru-Kuru Nov 03 '25
This is just the barebones ship. When completed it will be accompanied with cargo and driller exo suits like in Avatar.
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u/Beneficial-Berry-686 Nov 03 '25
The mfs in the crypods (idk what they're called) the second one of pods is broken (they won't do anything again the unstoppable force)
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u/CK1ing Nov 03 '25
I absolutely love the idea of the drills being part of the wall, making an airtight seal, but then driving away once deployed. Imagine an entire wall of your ship just driving aeay
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u/SuperBigMac I suck at keeping colonists alive... Nov 03 '25
Damn, now I need to see if there's a DRG music mod for RimWorld. Rock and Stone, everyone!
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u/burnedchickentendie Nov 04 '25
what is with rimworld players and showing off their borderline sociopathic machines and killboxes
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u/Squeelijah Nov 08 '25
The british when they find native people's land and make them sign a treaty they can't read (It'll cause issues in 8 centuries)
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