Summary
A player’s base is everything inRimWorldsince it acts as a home for colonists and stores items. Improving a base will allow gamers to survive longer on the unforgiving planet where they have crash-landed.
Making a few tweaks to a base will allow it to function better and improve its defenses, deterring pesky raiders.Some improvements to a player’s basewill also increase food output and allow gamers to house more colonists. Thesetips are great for people seeking to improve their base-building skills inRimWorldto progress further in the game.
Updated July 08, 2025 by Aly Azmy:This list has been updated to add new base tips that might not seem important at first but will become a must-do once tried. The list aims to provide tips from the early to late game. Figuring out these tips will slowly allow RimWorld players to improve in the game and build larger colonies that are efficient and stable. One of the tips also touches up on base defenses to keep a colony prepared for endless invasions from enemy raiders.
1Base Location
Base Tip: Scout Base Location
Before choosing where to place a base, there are a few things to consider, such as building close to fertile soil and avoiding map corners. Rich soil allows crops to grow 40% faster, giving players a significant advantage in their early game farms. Raiders will spawn in map corners, and keeping a base away from the edges will provide ample time to plan against an enemy attack.
While this last bit of advice is optional, playing in a large hills world will provide a base with natural defenses to play around. Building out in the open will leave any base exposed on all sides.
2Freezer Room
Base Tip: Preserve Temperatures For Longer Periods
The freezer is the most valuable aspect of a base, asstoring the colony’s foodis essential. Maintaining the temperature in the freezer room is necessary due to power outages and occasional solar flares. The best way to preserve the temperature in the freezer room is to double-wall it, allowing the area to stay cooler for longer once the power cuts out. Building an airlock leading to a freezer will also helpmaintain temperatures inside a room.
Players should place the freezer as close as possible to the kitchen to reduce how much the colonist chef needs to move during cooking, and players can also use auto doors to cut down more time.
3Recreational And Dining Room
Base Tip: Increase Morale
The moods of colonists are arguably the most important resource after food, as keeping them happy is vital for survival. Combining a recreational room with a dining room allows players to get more use out of each room. Once a colonist uses either room, they will receive an impressive dining or rec room bonus.
The best way to improve a room is to add a sculpture made by a talented artist and use a colonist with a high level of construction to build all chairs, tables, and recreational objects.
4Dedicated Workshop
Base Tip: Better Organization
Creating a large workshop area has several benefits compared to having them spread out. An essential tip for having a fast workshop is keeping a warehouse close to it, allowing colonists to get the necessary resources for their work with less delay.
Having one large room allows players to save space and forces colonists to socialize more frequently. To take it a step further, players should add some decoration into a workshop to make the environment look better for colonists, providing them with a mood buff.
5Stone Blocks
Base Tip: Fire Proof
Wood walls and floors will only take players so far inRimWorldsince fire is too risky to avoid. Using stone has many advantages compared to wood, such as having an increased beauty factor. Marble blocks have the highest beauty factor, followed by slate blocks.
Using marble flooring is a great investment to increase the beauty factor throughout a base while keeping players safe from fire. Players should verify to assign a colonist to maintain the cleanliness of the beautiful new stone floors so that players can profit from them.
6Walls And Killbox
Base Tip: Improved Defenses
Once a base is large enough,investing resources to wall up areassurrounding the base will increase defenses. Keeping one side accessible will cause most raid attempts to pick this path, allowing players to profit off turrets and sandbags and have a reliable defense system. To ward off Mechanoids, fans have created kill box designs that funnel raiders into a neat line.
Creating a kill box requires players to restrict base access to only one point of entry and create a long hallway to force raiders to attack one at a time. After the hallway, place the colonists as far as possible, giving them cover while they put out firepower. Adding turrets will improve damage output and provide help to colonists. Players should also be sure to give better guns to colonists that havebeneficial colonist traits.
7Hydroponics
Base Tip: Indoor Farming
While rich soil ishelpful for early game farming, hydroponics is better later in the world. While they are expensive to build, they allow crops to grow twice as fast as they would on rich soil. Not all crops will benefit from the extra growth speed; potatoes do not utilize the full growth speed, but rice does.
Building hydroponics in a circle design surrounding a sunlamp will allow players to take advantage of the area, leaving only four empty spots for heaters. One crucial requirement for relying on hydroponics is creating backup batteries for power outages; this prevents the risk of crops dying.
8Animal Pen
Base Tip: Alternate Food Sources
Farms provide players with a consistent source of food, but gamers will require animal products to create higher-quality meals for their colonists. Setting up a barn for animals to graze in is easy and requires limited effort. Most animals are herbivores or omnivores, and players will have little trouble providing them with consistent food sources. Cows are among the best animals to enclose in a barn due to their milk production and high meat quantity.
Players should look for an area full of grass to build the barn on. Build a large fenced area and place a fence gate on one side. After the fence is complete, click on one of the fences to build a fence pen marker. Place the pen marker inside to mark the animal pen. Solid blocks, such as a wall, can be used to add an animal pen inside a base. Players canbegin raising animalsafter completing an animal pen.
9Prisoner Management
Base Tip: Prisoner Lockdown
Prisoners are a great way to increase future colonist populations or make good money.Building a prisonwill allow players to keep numerous prisoners at all times. There are two main prison designs: separate rooms or a joint cell. A joint cell has the downside of having all prisoners break out at once, which could be devastating if they escape at a bad time.
Separate cells are preferred as they are better at preventing a large prison outbreak. A good prisoner cell design has a bed, a light source, and a place to eat. Expanding cell space and adding statues will improve prisoners' moods, allowing for faster recruitment and lowered escape chances. Building cells within a larger area is essential as prisoners will have to break out of another structure before they are free. This buys players some time to deal with an outbreak.
10Hospital
Base Tip: Sanitary Room
Taking proper care of injured colonists is crucial to ensure their survival. Using bedrooms as hospitals will increase infection risk and will not accommodate a large number of colonists afterdefending against raiders. Setting up a hospital is expensive but will pay off in the long term as it will vastly improve survival rates for sick or injured colonists.
Players should dedicate an entire room for the hospital that will accommodate between 4 and 6 hospital beds. Normal beds will do until hospital beds are researched. Use sterile tiles for the floor as doing so will provide a cleanliness buff and lowers the risk of infection. Add vital monitors close to the beds, and be sure to dedicate all beds as medical beds. Lastly, create a nearby room for storing medicine and keep the room cold to preserve the medicine.
