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{{imagemargin|[[File:raiders_layout_preview.png|124px|right]]|41px}}</div>'''Raiders''' are essentially the main antagonists of ''RimWorld''. They are predatory enemies who appear in events called "Raids" and are sent by the storyteller or by player accepted quests. The group size and strength of a raiding party is determined by 'points', which will be explained in-depth further down this article.</onlyinclude>
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Raiders have several [[#Raiders' strategies|strategies]] when a raid event is spawned. Human raiders continue to attack until one of several conditions are met. Mechanoid raiders continue to attack indefinitely. Raiders who survive may return to attack again in future raids or ambushes. This includes prisoners abandoned from caravans who are in restraint, making them unable to attack properly.
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<gallery widths="250px" heights="250px" class="center" mode="nolines">
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File:Ransom.png|'''Ransom'''
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File:Raiders Mod debuff tired and hungry.png|'''Raider's negative thoughts'''
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File:Pirates have given up and area leaving.png|'''Pirates have given up and are leaving'''
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Prisoner return as raider.png|'''Abandoned prisoner returns to ambush a caravan.'''
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== Equipment ==
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{{Rewrite|section=1|reason=1) Convert linked spreadsheet to wiki, and update as is many versions out of date. 2) Addiction drug carrying mechanics}}
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'''Raiders''' are enemies that spawn in groups at semi-regular intervals. Group size, health, skill, and equipment depend on both the set [[AI_Storytellers#Challenge scale|game difficulty]] and the time already elapsed in the game. Typically on Tough [[Cassandra Classic]] only one wounded raider spawns in the first group, and the subsequent group has 3-5 raiders; eventually, there are groups of more than 20 raiders with the lowest health being above 80.
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pEhmCnRiBKAh5C7X6kHPSE7QKTeTRjspB-sHR2-B_os/edit?usp=sharing This Google Sheets spreadsheet] shows the spawn rates of weapons and apparel across all raider kinds. Valid as of 1.0.2057. Figures are taken from a modified version of the 'Pawn Kind Gear Sampled' dev tool with a sample size of 10,000 rather than 400.
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Raiders will invoke a message when they spawn, and an alert will come when they begin their assault.
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=== Weapons ===
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Raiders have limited equipment possibilities; dependent on their weapon and apparel budgets, and what equipment 'tags' they are allowed to equip. Usually on [[Cassandra Classic]] and [[Phoebe Chillax]] they come equipped early on with mostly [[autopistol]]s and crude melee weapons, some [[bolt-action rifle]]s and [[pump shotgun]]s later down the line. In the late game they can come equipped with things such as [[frag grenades]], [[sniper rifle]]s, [[incendiary launcher]]s and [[machine pistol]]s. Rarely some will have [[assault rifle]]s or [[LMG]]s.
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A raiding party may include members equipped with melee weapons and [[shield belt]]s. When a raiding party includes grenade throwers, the AI is intelligent enough to run way from grenades thrown by their own faction (though this does not apply to other explosives). Raiders wielding rocket launchers will attempt to avoid friendly fire.
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Counterintuitively, they can and will quite often spawn with melee weapons that result in them having a lower DPS than unarmed combat.
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Also, raiders do not always use weapons appropriate to their skills, as the weapons are randomly chosen. They are often seen equipped with ranged weapons when they are better at melee (completely disregarding the [[Trait#Brawler|Brawler]] trait), and vice versa.
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=== Armor ===
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They come in different clothing depending on their type and the outside conditions. If it's cold at your colony, they will come wearing [[parka]]s and [[tuque]]s, but they don't usually wear [[duster]]s and [[cowboy hat]]s in the heat.
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=== Loot ===
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{{stub|section=1|reason=Is there always loot?}}
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Raiders can spawn carrying additional items unrelated to their pawnkind and their combat role. These function as an additional reward for defeating the raid. These items spawn inside the inventories of some raiders and are dropped on their being [[downed]]. The type of loot depends on the faction the raider is from. Note that while drugs and resources do spawn as part of this loot, it is in addition to that spawned for addictions and siege construction.
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The total [[market value]] of the loot is proportional to the [[raid points]] of the raid it spawns in. The loot may spawn on one raider or it may be distributed across several individuals. Note that the value does not increase after 4000 raid points.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Loot market value by Raid points
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|-
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|{{GraphChart|width = 400
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|height = 200
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|type = line
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|xAxisTitle = Raid Points
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|xAxisMin =
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|xAxisMax =
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|yAxisMin =
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|yAxisMax =
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|yAxisTitle = Value (Silver)
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|legend = Legend
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|x = 35, 100, 1000, 2000, 4000, 5000
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|y1 = 8, 60, 250, 400, 500, 500
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|y1Title = Mechanoids
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|y2 = 15, 120, 500, 800, 1000, 1000
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|y2Title = All Other Factions
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}}
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|}
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The items that compose the loot vary and are themed to the faction performing the raid. The options are:
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! [[Mechanoid Hive]] !! [[Outlanders]] !! [[Tribals]] !! [[Pirates]] !! [[Empire]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}
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|-
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| {{Icon List|Plasteel}}
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{{Icon List|Component }}
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| {{Icon List|Silver}}
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{{Icon List|Medicine}}
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{{Icon List|Component}}
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{{Icon List|Packaged survival meal}}
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{{Icon List|Neutroamine }}
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| {{Icon List|Silver}}
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{{Icon List|Jade}}
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{{Icon List|Herbal medicine}}
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{{Icon List|Pemmican}}
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|{{Icon List|Silver}}
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{{Icon List|Medicine}}
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{{Icon List|Packaged survival meal}}
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{{Icon List|Flake}}
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{{Icon List|Yayo}}
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{{Icon List|Go juice}}
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{{Icon List|Wake up}}
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{{Icon List|Smokeleaf}}
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{{Icon List|Luciferium}}
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| {{Icon List|Gold}}
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{{Icon List|Glitterworld medicine}}
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{{Icon List|Uranium}}
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{{Icon List|Packaged survival meal}}
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|}
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== Humanlike ==
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There are multiple types of raiders in RimWorld, each with their own sets of equipment and budgets which the game uses to 'buy' their equipment. Similarly, the game 'buys' raiders by deducting the raiders' Combat Power rating from the amount of raid points.
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Raider types are exclusive to their faction - mercenaries being exempt.
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=== Tribals ===
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{{main|Tribes}}
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Tribal fighters, weak but expendable. They never carry [[silver]] or [[medicine]]. They carry [[pemmican]] as food.
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{{:Tribes/Pawns}}
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=== Pirates ===
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{{main|Pirates}}
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These units are encountered most frequently in the early game, but you'll see these units throughout the game. All easily dispatched once you get armor and high-grade weapons.
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{{:Pirates/Pawns}}
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=== Outlanders ===
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{{main|Outlanders}}
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As friendly units, they show up in caravans or friendly reinforcements. Rough outlander unions will also send these to attack your colony in the early game.
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{{:Outlanders/Pawns}}
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=== Mercenaries ===
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Elite units typically encountered from mid-game onwards. Joins the Outlanders or Pirates in their ranks.
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{{:Mercenaries/Pawns}}
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=== Spacer ===
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{{main|Ancients}}
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These people don't appear in normal raids but are found in [[ancient shrine]]s. This variety is always hostile to the player's faction.
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{{:Ancients/Pawns}}
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=== Empire ===
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{{Royalty|section=1|No Category}}
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{{Main|Empire}}
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{{:Empire/Pawns}}
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== Mechanoid ==
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{{main|Mechanoid}}
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Mechanical enemies that neither feel pain nor seek cover.
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{| {{STDT| c_01 text-center}}
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! Pawn Type !! Image !! Combat Power !! Gear Health (%) !! Avg. Gear Quality !! Clothing Budget !! Weapon Budget !! Available Weapons !! Age Range !! Additional Info
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|-
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! [[Scyther]]
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|[[{{Q|Scyther|Image}}|50px]] || 150 || 100 || - || - || - || '''Melee (Blades)''' || Any || - <!--Before adding anything to these sections, see its purpose on other faction pages. They are not for general analysis-->
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|-
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! [[Lancer]]
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|[[{{Q|Lancer|Image}}|50px]] || 180 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Charge lance]]''' || Any || -
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! [[Centipede]]
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|[[{{Q|Centipede|Image}}|50px]] || 400 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Heavy charge blaster]]''', '''[[Inferno cannon]]''', '''[[Minigun]]''' || Any || -
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|-
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! [[Pikeman]]
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|[[{{Q|Pikeman|Image}}|50px]] || 110 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Needle gun]]''' || Any || -
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! [[Termite]]
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|[[{{Q|Termite|Image}}|50px]] || 110 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Thump cannon]]''' || Any || -
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|-
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! [[Militor]]
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|[[{{Q|Militor|Image}}|50px]] || 45  || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Mini-shotgun]]''' || Any || -
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! [[Legionary]]
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|[[{{Q|Legionary|Image}}|50px]] || 150 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Needle gun]]''' || Any || -
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! [[Tesseron]]
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|[[{{Q|Tesseron|Image}}|50px]] || 150 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Beam graser]]''' || Any || -
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! [[Scorcher]]
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|[[{{Q|Scorcher|Image}}|50px]] || 110 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Mini-flameblaster]]''' || Any || -
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! [[Tunneler (Mechanoid)|Tunneler]]
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|[[{{Q|Tunneler|Image}}|50px]] || 400 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''Melee (Power claws)''' || Any || -
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! [[Centurion]]
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|[[{{Q|Centurion|Image}}|50px]] || 250 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Charge blaster turret]]''' || Any || -
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|-
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! [[Diabolus]]
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|[[{{Q|Diabolus|Image}}|50px]] || 600 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Hellsphere cannon]]''' || Any || -
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! [[War queen]]
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|[[{{Q|War queen|Image}}|50px]] || 600 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Charge blaster turret]]''' || Any || -
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! [[Apocriton]]
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|[[{{Q|Apocriton|Image}}|50px]] || 600 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Toxic needle gun]]''' || Any || -
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! [[War urchin]]
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|[[{{Q|War urchin|Image}}|50px]] || 75 || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Spiner]]''' || Any || -
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|}
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=== Mechanoid cluster ===
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{{main|Mechanoid cluster}}
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Added in Royalty was the "Mechanoid Cluster" event, which may be associated with quests or drop on their own. During this event, a fleet of drop pods will land and deploy mechanoids, walls, turrets, and assorted buildings. These mechanoids will initially be dormant. They are eventually awakened by either the player attacking, a Proximity activator being tripped, or a Count-down activator finishing its count down.
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== Raiders' strategies ==
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The message from the event will detail how the raiders from the hostile faction will raid.
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=== General Mechanics ===
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=== Raider Targeting ===
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Standard raiders, including humans and mechanoids, attack targets based on a rough priority system with some random elements. Raiders who are able to path towards a colonist or powered turret will attempt to attack such a colonist or pathable furniture. Raiders who are only able to path towards furniture may attack that furniture or may instead attack random walls and doors. The chance raiders attack the furniture rather than random walls and doors has some random elements to it. Raiders who cannot path towards any colonist nor any furniture targets will attack random walls and doors.
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Pathable means that the raider can move to the same cell as the target. "Furniture" targets include objects like stools, tables, chairs, and even things like Wind Turbines, Geothermal Generators, Unpowered Turrets, and production benches.
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Raider targeting can change based on nearby targets, if their target is destroyed or becomes non-pathable, or if they take damage.
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Raider targeting can also be overridden by nearby targets of opportunity. Raiders may light wooden walls or crops on fire, for example. 
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=== "Victory" Conditions ===
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Human raiders continue to attack until one of several conditions are met. Mechanoid raiders attack indefinitely. Once mechanoids have destroyed every possible target they wander around in place indefinitely until a new target appears.
  
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Raiders can enter "steal" mode if they see enough value. In this mode, they will grab your stuff and carry it off.
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Downing or killing 40 to 70% of human raiders causes the remaining alive raiders to cease their attack and attempt to flee. A random value between 40 and 70% is chosen for each raider group. If a raid attacks in multiple groups, each group has their own randomly chosen 40 to 70% flee value. Each individual raider group only counts dead or downed members of their own group. Each group attacks and flees independently.  
  
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If the raiders see that they are losing, they may try and kidnap someone of your colony by letting some do the actual kidnapping and some covering them. Only colonists will be kidnapped. After one of your colonists has been kidnapped, a ‘ransom demand’ incident can fire, demanding silver for the colonists that has been kidnapped.
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Human Raiders will flee after attacking for approximately 10 to 15 hours. A random value is chosen between these timers. After the time is passed the group will flee. For enemies attacking in multiple groups, each group will have its own timer and solely that group will flee when the timer is met. For sieges, the timer only begins after the siege stops attempting to siege and directly assaults the colony.
  
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{{asof|A15}} raiders steal a bit more often now.
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Human enemies may attempt to kidnap downed colonists. When kidnapping, enemies may disengage from combat and attempt to flee the map.
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== Equipment ==
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Human enemies may attempt to steal nearby loot. When stealing, enemies may disengage from combat and attempt to flee the map. How much nearby loot is required to cause raider theft depends on the raid points of the colony. Higher raid points requires more loot.
  
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Raiders have limited equipment possibilities. Usually on [[Cassandra Classic]] they come equipped early on with mostly [[pistol]]s and crude melee weapons, some [[survival rifle]]s and [[pump shotgun]]s later down the line. In the late game they can come equipped with things such as [[frag grenades]], [[sniper rifle]]s, [[incendiary launcher]]s and [[machine pistol]]s. Rarely some will have [[assault rifle]]s or even [[Charge Rifle]]s. A raiding party may include members equipped with melee weapons and [[Armor#Personal_Shield|personal shields]]. When a raiding party includes grenade throwers, the AI is intelligent enough to run way from grenades thrown by their own faction.
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! style="text-align:left;" | Map Entry || Attack Type || Smart? || Faction Raiders || Ally use this raid?
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| rowspan="7" | Walk in Edge (45%)
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| rowspan="3" | Immediate Attack
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| No
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| rowspan="3" | Tribal, Outlander, Pirate, Mechanoid
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| rowspan="2" | Yes
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| Yes
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|-
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| Yes (Breach)
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| No
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|-
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| rowspan="2" | Preparation || No
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| rowspan="7" | Tribal, Outlander, Pirate
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| rowspan="2" | Yes
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| Yes
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|-
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| Sapper || No
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| No
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|-
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| Siege || No
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| Yes
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|-
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| rowspan="3" | Walk in Edge Group (15%)
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| rowspan="2" | Immediate Attack
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| No
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| rowspan="2" | Yes
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| Yes
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|-
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| Sapper || No
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| No
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| rowspan="7" | Drop pods (30%)
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| rowspan="3" | Immediate Attack
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| No
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| rowspan="5" | Tribal, Outlander, Pirate, Empire, Mechanoid
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| rowspan="2" | Yes
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| Yes
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|-
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| Yes (Breach)
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| No
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|-
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| rowspan="2" | Preparation || No
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| rowspan="2" | Yes
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|-
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| Yes
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|-
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| Sapper || No
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| rowspan="2" | Tribal, Outlander, Pirate, Empire
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| No
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|-
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| Siege || No
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| rowspan="2" | Yes
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|-
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| Haywired drop pods (10%) || Immediate Attack || No || Tribal, Outlander, Pirate, Empire, Mechanoid
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| colspan="2" | Mechanoid Cluster {{RoyaltyIcon}} || No || Mechanoid || No
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{{asof|A14}} the AI dressing algorithm is now better at making outfits to withstand cold temperatures. If there is no way to make a survivable outfit, pawns won’t arrive at all. No more raids arriving and keeling over in -60C weather.
 
  
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== Raiders' Strategies ==
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=== Immediate attack ===
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=== Immediate Attack ===
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{{Quote|They are attacking immediately.|Description}}
 
Raiders, upon either landing in their drop pods or arriving on the map sides, will proceed to instantaneously converge on your colony and attack. The best thing to do is to defend.
 
Raiders, upon either landing in their drop pods or arriving on the map sides, will proceed to instantaneously converge on your colony and attack. The best thing to do is to defend.
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=== Immediate Attack Smart ===
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Like Immediate Attack, but the raiders are unusually clever in their tactics because they simply steal some of your items and run. This can be devastating in early game, because a raider may steal your stockpile of components, leaving you without any means of using electricity.
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=== "Drop right on top of you" drop pods ===
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Raiders will drop pod right "on top of you" circumventing all exterior defenses. "Drop on top of you" raids choose a singular colonist and all drop pods land around this target in open cells. That singular colonist cannot be under overhead mountain. The drop pods can crash through nearby overhead mountain even though the singular colonist target cannot currently be under overhead mountain.
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Only outlander, pirate and empire factions can "Drop right on top of you". Tribal factions cannot use drop pods. Mechanoid "Drop right on top of you" raids were removed in patch 1.4.
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Rather than landing on a colonist, "Drop right on top of you" raids have a 40% chance to land on a powered, unroofed, orbital trade beacon.
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These "drop right on top of you" raids always attack immediately and follow standard enemy pathing.
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=== Immediate attack smart ===
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Like Immediate Attack, but the raiders are unusually clever in their tactics because they try to avoid turret line of sight if possible. If there is no path to the raider's target around turret line of sight, or if their target is a turret, they will walk through turret line of sight.
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Despite their description, they do not avoid traps like Spike Traps nor IEDS in anyway.
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=== Preparation ===
 
=== Preparation ===
 
Raiders, upon either landing in their drop pods or arriving on the map sides, will proceed to stand around in a small group near-by where they spawned for a period of time and then proceed to attack. It is possible and a completely viable strategy to attack them while they are "preparing". This preparation has no effect on their attack other than the fact that it gives you more time to prepare yourself.
 
Raiders, upon either landing in their drop pods or arriving on the map sides, will proceed to stand around in a small group near-by where they spawned for a period of time and then proceed to attack. It is possible and a completely viable strategy to attack them while they are "preparing". This preparation has no effect on their attack other than the fact that it gives you more time to prepare yourself.
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=== Sappers ===
 
=== Sappers ===
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Raiders, upon either landing in their drop pods or arriving on the map sides, will proceed to instantaneously converge on your colony but not attack. They will instead mine a separate way into your colony away from your defenses. This can be a fairly dangerous way (for you) for them to try and attack. The best thing to do is instantly assault them before they can mine too much. Sappers will also avoid high-health ore veins, like compacted plasteel.
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{{Quote|It looks like they want to use sappers to tunnel around your defenses.|Description}}
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Instead of attempting to kill your colonists by traditional attack, sappers will mine or blast their way inside rather than hitting your walls or doors as usual. Their ultimate goal is an assigned sleeping position. An assigned sleeping position can be a colonist bed, an animal bed, or even a freely placed prison sleeping spot that is assigned to a prisoner.
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The attacker with the best mining skill is chosen to dig. If that digger is killed the next best digger continues digging, and so on.
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They can be fairly dangerous to those who tunnel into mountains as their defenses are usually concentrated at the entrances. The best thing to do is instantly assault them before they can mine too much. The other members will then carry on the normal assault. They seem to avoid digging through high-health ore veins or into the areas within the range of improvised turrets and don't mind much about other security traps (spike trap and all kind of IEDs). It's possible to create such an trap area to kill them before hand.
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However, in open bases they are even worse than regular raiders as they come in smaller numbers.
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Sappers can find one tile defenses, either natural rock or built walls. This may cause them to open ancient shrines unintentionally.
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<gallery mode="packed-hover">
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File:Sappers are good at finding one tile walls.png|1: Sappers are good at finding one tile walls.
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File:Sappers may even open ancient structures unwisely.png|2: Sappers may even open ancient shrines unwisely.
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File:Sappers attacking ancient structures will kill spacers you would love to recruit.png|3: Sappers attacking ancient structures will kill spacers you would love to recruit.
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File:Sappers may cause mechanoids to function as your outer defense line.png|4: Sappers may cause mechanoids to function as your outer defense line.
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File:Sappers demise.png|5: Sappers are defeated.
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</gallery>
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=== Breachers ===
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{{Quote|These raiders intend to breach your walls. They'll determine their own path into your colony and destroy anything in their way.|Description}}
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Much like the Sapper strategy, raiders will utilize their tools to easily breach past the walls more. Breachers, like sappers, target assigned sleeping positions. Compared to Sappers, Breachers comes equipped with tools designed to destroy walls more easily (Tribals access to [[breach axe]], Royal, Pirates and Colony uses [[frag grenades]], and Mechanoids utilizes their [[Termite]] wielding [[thump cannon]]) regardless of their mining skill. Unlike the Sappers, they mostly target after colony-built walls in their direct path, rather than mining to the shortest route. Any raiding pawns nearby will always follow the breaching pawn in question, only attacking within range. Breachers will not attack passable player buildings, and instead only target impassable buildings like walls.
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They ignore walls that are not owned by the colonist unless there are no other pathway around them and the walls, making it more difficult to trick the breachers into unintentionally opening the ancient shrines.
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Unlike sappers which usually come in small numbers of raiders, breachers are always followed by a ton of raiding pawns, or Centipedes in the case of Termite, which covers the disadvantageous issue that the Sapping raid in the open has with. This kind of raid will appear more frequently if the wealth is high enough.
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[[File:Siege base construct.png|350px|thumb|right|Siegers arriving at their chosen minibase location. The faint "blueprint" for the base is not visible until the resources are dropped.]] [[File:Siege_base_finished.png|350px|thumb|right|Siegers done constructing their minibase and questionable defenses, moving toward commencing bombardment.]]
  
 
=== Siege ===
 
=== Siege ===
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Raiders, upon landing in their drop pods, will proceed to receive building supplies (things such as metal, food, medical supplies, and artillery shells) and construct any number of the following:
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{{See also|Auto-mortar}}
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*Mortars
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{{Quote|It looks like they want to besiege the colony and pound you with mortars from a distance. You can try to wait it out - or go get them.|Description}}
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*Incendiary Mortars
 
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*Sandbags
 
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After constructing the amount they desire, they will proceed to bombard the colony with mortar shells, potentially causing a great deal of damage. The best strategy is either to assault the mortar base or wait it out and repair the damage as best as you can. The choice mainly depends on the surroundings of the mortar base and your base's position. If your base is located under a mountain (your base tiles will read ''Overhead Mountain'' when you hover your cursor over them), the mortar shells won't be able to hit those tiles at all! This makes deep mining a very effective strategy against heavy bombardment. If you don't build your base into a mountain, you should at least consider digging out at least one panic room for your colonists to hide within from the shells.
 
  
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If you assault their base, one possibility is sniping either the shells or the mortars, hoping an explosion kills many of the raiders.
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Raiders enter your map from an edge and head towards a point well outside your base to set up a makeshift siege base. Once there, drop pods supply them with ample resources to construct 2 [[mortar]]s ([[steel]], [[component]]s, and both [[high-explosive shell]]s and [[incendiary shell]]s). They also get some [[cloth]] to create [[sandbags]] as cover, and [[packaged survival meal]]s. Two random raiders will begin constructing the mortars (one each), and a few more will throw the sandbags down while the rest stand guard.
  
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Note, the raiders always spawn in with ranged and melee weapons -- they can't all spawn with melee.
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You can engage them before they finish building up if timing is favorable to you. They will always attempt to construct only two mortars regardless of the number of raiders. The layout of the mortar base is somewhat random - they might decide to place a mortar where some trees need cutting first, slowing the process considerably, and the sandbags are rarely well placed. The siegers rarely use their best constructors when building (it's random), so sometimes fail the [[construction]] process and waste that mortar's resources.  As they will not get additional components, this will make any bombardment half as damaging.
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[[File:Passive siegers.png|200px|thumb|left|Siegers not engaging friendlies while traveling to set up base.]]
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Once a mortar is ready, they will start to bombard you, guarded by those not busy manning the mortars or still building the second one. Drop pods will continuously resupply 12 packaged survival meals and more mortar shells, as needed. They can receive [[Mortar shell|different types of shells]] during the siege, which can be [[Firefoam shell|less]] or [[Antigrain warhead|more dangerous]] to your colony, depending. After causing enough destruction, they will proceed as a normal raid to converge on your colony. Valid targets appear to be colonists and buildings but not player owned animals.  
  
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== Defense Strategy ==
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The siege team will not engage friendlies while heading towards their future base until they actually start constructing or you assault them first.
  
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Raiders will start by standing around in a group where they spawned and will continue this until they see a [[colonist]] nearby or they hit a certain preparation time limit, at which point they begin the assault. Because a colonist can set them off early, you can plan out the time you want them to attack. It is generally best to set them off early if you're well-prepared, to avoid potentially troublesome scenarios such as having no power when their timer runs out. Conversely, you should not set them off early if your defense is not prepared. Note that raiders usually take less than one day to begin, meaning that if there is an eclipse and you rely on [[Buildings#Solar generator|Solar generators]], you should not wait for them and should instead set them off early while you still have some power left. Also it's good to note that raiders will remember where your [[Deadfall trap|traps]] are. This doesn't apply to other factions, though -- if, say, the Vipers of Power come in and sets off your traps, then they would remember that. But, if the Rippers of Fire later attack, they won't have that knowledge and will still set off the same traps.
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A siege will begin their direct assault of the player colony under a few conditions. The siege will begin their assault after a random amount of time between 1.5 and 3 days has past. Every time a sieger takes damage there's an 8% chance the siege assaults directly.
  
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Raiders will attack randomly chosen constructed objects and colonists. They will not attack [[prisoners]], rock walls,[[animals]] (unless the animals are hostile) or unpowered turrets. Raiders will usually set fire to [[Food]](As in growing zones), [[power]] generation, [[wall]]s, [[nutrient paste dispenser]]s, [[equipment rack]]s, [[drop beacon]]s; they will melee-attack [[Standing_lamp|lamps]], [[bed]]s, [[stool]]s, [[Table_(short)|short tables]], [[Table_(long)|long tables]], and [[door]]s; they also use [[Molotov_cocktails|molotovs]] and [[frag Grenades]] on [[auto-turret]]s, [[sandbag]]s, and other targets. They will not attack [[blasting charge]]s, [[power conduit]]s, [[zones]], [[floor]]ing, or [[grave]]s. It is thus recommended to keep power generation, eating areas, lighting, doors, and walls near or behind a protected entrance. Raiders will prioritize firing on colonists or turrets when those colonists or turrets are firing on them, but will otherwise prioritize random objects, meaning you can put doors or walls near your defenses to temporarily distract them.
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=== Ambush ===
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Raiders may choose to attack one of your caravans. In this case, they will charge right at your caravan without giving a second thought to strategy.
  
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=== Turret Nested Entryway ===
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=== Multiple group attacks ===
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Turreted outside areas are generally only viable for the first several raids (in [[Tough Cassandra Classic]]), after which the areas will quickly get overwhelmed each raid due to not being able to focus fire on the spread-out raiders. Remember that raiders will run from exploding turrets! While protecting the outside starting area, you want to rapidly pause the game during raids and give orders to repair damaged turrets. Turrets should each get their own sandbags to reduce incoming fire both to the turret and the colonist behind the turret repairing/shooting.
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Enemies can split up their attacking forces, attacking using multiple groups at once. Each group attacks from a different direction, and flees on their own accord.
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Putting a turreted defense in an underground base with a narrow entrance and wide turreted area is best because it forces the raiders to take a single-file approach to where all the turrets will be able to fire on them. There should be more than one line of turrets so that the innermost line or lines can be used to position colonists where they are not immediately under threat from grenades (grenadiers will target the closest turrets first) or if colonists are positioned closer so they can repair, to retreat colonists further back when turrets are about to be or have been destroyed. Every line of turrets should have a line of sandbags directly in front and every supporting wall/rock should also have sandbags to lessen the likelihood of collapse due to collateral damage. Turrets should not be placed directly (within three tiles) next to wall/rock or other turrets for the same reason, as they explode when they run out of health. Outside or in front of the defense area, you can put blasting charge minefields in areas they are likely to group up in.
 
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Gun Turret Cooling is a priority for later raids, but should not be rushed. The extra shots tend to help ''kill'' raiders, but early on you will want to incapacitate them so you can capture and imprison them for recruitment.
 
  
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By enclosing your entryway in a large unroofed room, you have created a "killbox".
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=== Drop pod scatter ===
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Enemies capable of drop pods have a chance of launching a raiding party onto the map via said pods at random points scattered around the map. Due to the fact they can drop through roofs, this type of attack can be incredibly devastating, as they can bypass all of your external defenses and immediately start setting fires, attacking colonists, and destroying furniture. The layout of your base and the room they choose to drop in can also make it very difficult to set up a sufficient defense, as they may drop into an extremely unfortunate location, such as a cramped storage room with lots of things to burn and destroy, and no good way to attack them beyond filing all of your fighting colonists into the room and hoping for the best or attempting to shoot through the door. While the raiders themselves will most likely be easy enough to kill, it is likely they will have ample opportunity to cause tons of damage before they can be stopped. Setting up ample fire defenses and having a defense plan for all potential drop points can help limit the amount of damage they can cause, although it’s almost guaranteed they will be able to cause at least some damage if they drop directly into a room.
  
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''Note: as of the Alpha 11 "Sappers" attack strategy for raiders, this method of defense can be avoided by any of the slightly higher level raids, but is still a viable option for many of the raids as not all of them will attempt this strategy.''
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=== Weapon-specific raids ===
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Humanlike raiders have the ability to send raiders with a specific kind of weapon only.
  
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==== Melee rush ====
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This section commented out since blasting charges have been removed from the game.
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Pirate or outlander raiders have the chance to attack your base with mercenary slashers only, meaning everyone will be shielded and have a melee weapon. Tribals can do the same with their melee units, except without shields.
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=== Minefields ===
 
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Early on, you want to focus on armed colonist defense with turrets, but as the raiders grow in number, it becomes more efficient to use a bit of metal to kill several at once than to invest a lot of metal in a turret that costs nothing to fire, but will explode rapidly due to large raider groups.
 
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Blasting charges are extremely effective when used correctly, and the raiders will make some (but not usually enough) of an attempt to avoid them, which can force them into a single-file line even before they reach the entrance. You should only detonate a charge if one second (slowest speed) from when you activate it, it will have at least one grenadier or at least three regular raiders near it or it is vital that you kill as many as possible. Note that fires and other blasting charges can activate blasting charges, so do not place them outside near where your colonists regularly walk and do not place them within range of other charges.
 
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While you can place them near support walls/rock, triggering a cave-in is not usually worth it. It creates more rock to mine out after the battle, provides cover for raiders, destroys metal from destroyed turrets or other buildings, and since the cave-in will happen usually right in the middle of where the charge went off, it will only kill raiders who are already at low health from the blast or simply destroy the bodies of those killed by the blast.
 
  
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The most dangerous raiders are those with frag grenades. One grenade will instantly destroy a turret or kill a colonist. The only defense against grenades is to kill the grenadier quickly, pull out colonists from an area a grenade is being thrown at immediately, and sell anything in that area immediately too. Grenadiers are thus by far the first priority to kill. All other raiders are generally weak, but among them raiders equipped with pump shotguns are the most threatening to colonists and raiders equipped with molotovs or incendiary launchers are the most threatening to buildings, yet the least threatening to colonists.
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Mechanoids have their own rendition of the melee rush with [[scyther]]s only.
  
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Because raiders will take cover from your turrets and colonists, it's possible to lead them into mines by offering them false cover. Once detonated, the raiders will not only take damage, but be left in the open for further attacks.
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==== Sniper party ====
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Pirates or outlanders have a chance to send snipers only, meaning that all attackers will have long-ranged attacks.
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==== Explosives assault ====
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Pirates or outlanders have the chance to send a party consisting of either grenadiers or heavy mercenaries. While this makes them extremely destructive, it also makes them particularly prone to friendly fire.
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== Raid strength ==
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{{Main|Raid points}}
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A raid's size and strength is determined by the amount of colonists you have, your wealth, how many big threats you've had (for the early-game), how long your faction's been around for, how long it's been since one of your colonists were downed or killed, and your difficulty.
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The actual raid strength is determined by points, which is calculated by taking into account the above factors that affect raid strength.
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For a full technical breakdown; see [[Raid points]]
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The below is technical information on the strength of raids, through the determination of points a raid has. All of the following information is from Alpha 17b, or 0.17.1557.
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=== Points ===
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Your first raid will always be 35 points, regardless of the above conditions. Additionally, the first raider won't randomly die upon being downed, and they will never flee.
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The base formula for raid points could be expressed as follows:
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{{math|big=0|P {{=}} (( C &times; 42 ) + ( iW &divide; 100 ) + ( bW &divide; 200 )) &times; ( sR &times; lR ) &times; D &times; T &times; R}}
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{| {{STDT| c_01 text-left}}
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|-
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! Variable !! Meaning !! Value
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|-
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! C
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|  number of colonists that your base has ||  Colonists are always worth 42 points, regardless of their condition
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|-
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! iW
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| base's item wealth || can be checked under the 'History' tab
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|-
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! bW
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| base's building wealth || can be checked under the 'History' tab
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|-
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! sR
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| short-term ramp-up factor || Check below
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|-
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! lR
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| long-term ramp-up factor || Check below
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|-
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! D
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| difficulty's threat scale factor (i.e. points multiplier) || 0.05 on peaceful; 0.1 on base builder; 0.35 on some challenge; 0.65 on rough; 1 on intense; and 1.3 on extreme.
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|-
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! T
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| the number of big threats (i.e. raids, manhunter packs, mechanoid ship parts, and psychic waves) that your faction has experienced || 0.5 for 1 big threat; 0.7 for 2; 0.8 for 3; 0.9 for 4; and 1 for 5 and greater. Simplified, '''T''''s value will be 0.5 for your faction's second-ever big threat, and so on.
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|-
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! R
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| the strategy that the raiders are using || 1 for waiting and then attacking; 0.9 for immediate attacks; 0.85 for 'smart' attacks; 0.8 for sapper attacks; and 0.6 for sieges. For raids involving chased refugees it is 1.35.
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|}
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====Ramp-up factors====
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Ramp-ups (i.e. '''sR''' and '''lR''') are substantially more complicated than any of the other factors involved:
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'''sR''' is always 1 until 21 days in; in which case 0.000514403335 is added to it every {{ticks|5000}} - or 1 every 162 days.
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'''lR''' is always 1 until 42 days in; in which case 0.000231481492 is added to it every 5,000 ticks - or 1 every 360 days.
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If a colonist gets downed or killed, 1 is subtracted from both '''sR''' and '''lR''' - but these aren't the new values; only part of the new values. '''sR''' and '''lR''' then get multiplied by certain values independently, based on how many colonists you have, with the table below showing all possible combinations as stated in the code (RimWorld.StoryWatcher_RampUp):
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{| {{STDT| c_01 text-center}}
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! Colonists
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| 0
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| 1
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| 2
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| 3
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| 4
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| 5
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| 6
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| 7
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| 8
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| 9
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| 10
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| 11
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| 12
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| 13
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| 14
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| 15
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| 16+
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|-
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! sR Multiplier
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| 0
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| 0
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| 0
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| 0
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| 0.15
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| 0.25
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| 0.3
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| 0.35
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| 0.4
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| 0.45
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| 0.5
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| 0.55
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| 0.6
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| 0.65
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| 0.7
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| 0.75
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| 0.8
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|- newline
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! lR Multiplier
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| 0
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| 0
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| 0
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| 0.2
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| 0.4
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| 0.6
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| 0.7
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| 0.75
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| 0.8
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| 0.85
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| 0.9
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| 0.91
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| 0.92
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| 0.93
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| 0.94
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| 0.95
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| 0.95
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|}
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After '''sR''' and '''lR''' have been multiplied by whatever corresponding values, new '''sR''' and new '''lR''' both equal 1 + old correspondents.
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After the base amount of points have been calculated, the game then factors in diminishing returns as follows, using nested 'if' statements, in pseudo-code form:
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    IF P > 1000 THEN
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        IF P > 2000 THEN
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            P = 2000 + (P - 2000) * 0.5
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        P = 1000 + (P - 1000) * 0.5
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In layman's terms: if P is above 1000, then P is the average of itself and 1,000. However, if P is above 2,000, then P will first be the average of itself and 2,000, before averaging with 1,000.
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Finally, with [[Randy Random]], a raid's points gets multiplied by anywhere from 0.5x to 1.5x, meaning that you could face more or less powerful raids than usual with this storyteller.
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====Example====
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So now lets plug in some real-world numbers: your colony has 4 people, it's been 17 days, and this is the colony's third raid. Your item wealth is 11,000, your building wealth is 4,000, and you're playing on rough difficulty. The raiders are attacking immediately.
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The values in the formula will be as follows:
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'''C''' = 4<br>
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'''iW''' = 11000<br>
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'''bW''' = 4000<br>
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'''sR''' = 1<br>
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'''lR''' = 1<br>
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'''D''' = 0.65<br>
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'''T''' = 0.7<br>
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'''R''' = 0.9
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Plugging these values into the formula:
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'''P = ((4 * 42) + (11000 / 100) + (4000 / 200)) * (1 * 1) * 0.65 * 0.7 * 0.9''' or<br>
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'''P = (168 + 110 + 20) * 1 * 0.65 * 0.7 * 0.9''' or<br>
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'''P = 298 * 0.4095''' thus<br>
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'''P = 122.031''' or<br>
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'''P = 122'''
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Therefore, the raid will be 122 points.
 
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=== "Attention Suppressor" Entryway ===
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== Defense strategies ==
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Once you have lots of bulk materials, but don't have enough industry to build proper defenses, you can build an attention suppressor out front of your basic defensive line. This is usually out of [[wood]], although the flammability of wood is a problem.
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''For a more comprehensive list of strategies, see [[Defense tactics]].'' <br>
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''For constructed defenses to hold against raiders, see [[Defense structures]].''
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It is recommended to keep power generation, eating areas, lighting, doors, and walls near or behind a protected entrance, as raiders tend to set fire to them, potentially causing huge damage. Raiders will prioritize firing on colonists or turrets when those colonists or turrets are firing on them, but will otherwise prioritize random objects, meaning you can put doors or walls near your defenses to temporarily distract them.
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=== Raider preparation ===
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Raiders will sometimes start by standing around in a group where they spawned and will continue this until they see a [[colonist]] nearby or they hit a certain preparation time limit, at which point they begin the assault. Because a colonist can set them off early, you can plan out the time you want them to attack. It is generally best to set them off early if you're well-prepared, to avoid potentially troublesome scenarios such as having no power when their timer runs out. Conversely, you should not set them off early if your defense is not prepared. Note that raiders usually take less than one day to begin, meaning that if there is an eclipse and you rely on [[Buildings#Solar generator|solar generators]], you should not wait for them and should instead set them off early while you still have some power left.
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=== Siege defense ===
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When faced with a siege, there are a few coping strategies you can use.
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You can choose to either to assault the mortar base or wait it out and repair the damage as best as you can. The choice mainly depends on the surroundings of the mortar base and your base's position. If your base is located under a mountain (your base tiles will read ''Overhead Mountain'' when you hover your cursor over them), the mortar shells won't be able to hit those tiles at all! This makes deep mining a very effective strategy against heavy bombardment. If you don't build your base into a mountain, you should at least consider digging out at least one panic room for your colonists to hide within from the shells.
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If you assault their base, one possibility is sniping either the shells or the mortars, hoping an explosion kills many of the raiders. If you want to leave those intact, you can snipe the raiders themselves. Keep in mind that killing enough of them prompts them to assault your colony directly instead of continuing their siege.
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=== Mechanoid assaults ===
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Mechanoids have much differing stats and weapons, meaning different tactics may be used.
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In most raids where they come/ drop in at the edges, the scythers will outrun the centipedes by a great margin, giving plenty of time to deal with them before the centipedes.
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==== Lancers ====
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Lancers are capable of mid-long range high damage attacks. If fighting it from a distance, cover along with mid-long ranged weapons such as [[assault rifle]]s or [[bolt-action rifle]]s are vital.
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Due to the lancers' weak melee ability and low health, melee fighting it is always the better choice.
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==== Scyther ====
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Scythers are dangerous melee fighters; they deal significant melee damage while forcing your gunners into melee combat. Usually, a 1v1 fight with a scyther and a gunner will result in the scyther emerging victorious.
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Melee fighters are useful in guarding against scythers, being able to 'peel' them off from more vulnerable allies. A thrumbo could beat up one easily, they are strong enough that even a calf could kill one in a 1v1.
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==== Pikemen ====
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Pikemen can snipe your colonists from a very long distance, though their damage output is abysmal.
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Due to the pikemen's weak melee ability and low health, melee fighting it is always the better choice.
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==== Centipedes ====
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Centipedes, on the other hand, specialize in crowd control and area denial; the [[minigun]] and [[heavy charge blaster]] can annihilate groups of colonists, while the [[inferno cannon]] sets your colonists ablaze and burns down your base if not careful. They are incredibly durable, sporting thick armor and high health, and can take many hits before they can be downed.
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The inferno cannon is not as directly destructive towards your colonists, but is dangerous due to the [[fire]] it spreads - destroying defenses and bases, causing burning pawns to run out of cover, and preventing movement. Keep watch on your colonists at all times, and remember to send them back into cover when needed. As a precaution, build your base out of non-flammable materials to prevent large-scale fires erupting all over your colony.
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Engaging it in melee is not recommended due to its armor, high health and heavy damage.
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=== Tribal raids ===
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Tribal raiders come in large numbers, but with relatively poor equipment; as such, it may require different strategy compared to pirate or outlander raids.
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 +
Overall, they can deal heavy damage to your colonists; they do not have good weapons, but compensate with their sheer numbers. <br>
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However, as tribalwear does not provide protection and they do not wear any form of regular armor, they are easier to kill individually than other raiders.
  
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Start like you're making a 29×29 room(27×27 interior), but instead of doors, just leave one-tile openings at opposite ends. That way it doesn't get a roof. If needed, use a [[no roof area]]. Down the middle of the attention suppressor leave an open path, 3 tiles wide, which will actually be travelled by your colonists. Pack the sides with alternating walls, leaving numerous blind alleys branching off the open path. The attention suppressor should look like two giant combs facing each other across the path, or perhaps like a cutaway of an especially-blocky sound suppressor.
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Crowd control is an important aspect in defeating tribal raids. The [[minigun]] or [[LMG]] is an effective weapon to use as it can easily mow down groups of raiders.
  
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'''Diagram:'''
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Explosive weapons are also useful in crowd control.
  
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A raider entering through an attention suppressor is presented with numerous blind alleys, each one of which could hold something important. Raiders will typically only resist the lure of a dozen or so blind alleys, after which they'll turn off into a blind alley to look for something to attack. In many cases they'll attack the walls, but the general effect is that a raiding force will spend a long time milling around in the attention suppressor, deeply distracted, and slowly trickle out of it toward your base alone, or (for a large raid) in twos and threes. This slow trickle of raiders is easily handled by a few colonists with basic weapons, or later a few turrets and a [[Menus#Repair|repair]]er.
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Their archers are dangerous; their bows can be fired from a somewhat long distance, their pila can easily kill or incapacitate a colonist, and they always come in a large volley. As with most defensive strategies, cover is essential when fighting them.
  
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Colonists and visitors with specific business on one side or the other of the attention suppressor will go quickly down the middle without being distracted. However, colonists pursuing [[joy]] activities like going for a walk will usually be diverted to do so in the blind alleys of the attention suppressor. As a result, it's not safe to fill with deathtraps.
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Removing rock chunks also helps in dealing with tribal raiders hiding behind them, making them much easier to hit.
  
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=== Mortar Tactic ===
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== Version history ==
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A mortar attack on siege and tribe raids can be effective while the attackers are still preparing. It's fun and most times raiders would flee before begin their assault due to huge losses of men during preparation.
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* [[Version/0.0.245|0.0.245]] - Sniper squad and mercenary squad added.
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If you managed to destroy the mortars and crew members during a siege, you can dismantle the sandbags and take their supplies (400~600 steel) (If you're lucky enough, you can get an intact mortar)
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* [[Version/0.3.410|0.3.410]] - Raiders come from specific factions and don’t always drop from orbit. Tribal raiders now spawn and attack.
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* [[Version/0.5.492|0.5.492]] -  Sieges added.
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* [[Version/0.11.877|0.11.877]] - Sappers added. Raiders now opportunistically ignite crops on fire.
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** A11B - Siegers can never use melee weapons. Enemies (especially wargs) now ignore unpowered unmanned turrets and mortars.
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* [[Version/0.12.906|0.12.906]] - Sappers now avoid mining through high-health ores and barriers.  Siegers will never be sent with only melee weapons ... again?
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* Beta 19/ 1.0 - Heavily reworked the selection weights of raider factions, raider strategies (sappers, siege, etc) and arrival modes (walk-in, drop pods) to make the more difficult ones appear more consistently against stronger colonies.
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* [[Version/1.3.3066|1.3.3066]] - Added new raid type: Breaching. Breaching raids will attempt to reach your colony by breaking through walls with unique weapons.
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* [[Version/1.3.3159|1.3.3159]] - Reduce prevalence of breach raids at high points levels.
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* [[Version/1.3.3200|1.3.3200]] - Adjusted human factions' raid strategy selection weights for slightly more variation. Breachers no longer want to attack passable player buildings. They only target impassable buildings like walls.
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* [[Version/1.4.3524|1.4.3524]] - Fix: Breach raids not spawning.
  
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It takes at least 4 mortars to be effective, any around 8 mortars will be enough for most attacks. Do note that each mortar needs its own shell storage, mortar shells can stack up to 25, you will need around 200 shells for 8 mortars to work effectively/automatically (manually un-man the turret can solve this issue)
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Normal Raid Prep - 3 Rounds per mortar
 
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Raiders are essentially the main antagonists of RimWorld. They are predatory enemies who appear in events called "Raids" and are sent by the storyteller or by player accepted quests. The group size and strength of a raiding party is determined by 'points', which will be explained in-depth further down this article.

Raiders have several strategies when a raid event is spawned. Human raiders continue to attack until one of several conditions are met. Mechanoid raiders continue to attack indefinitely. Raiders who survive may return to attack again in future raids or ambushes. This includes prisoners abandoned from caravans who are in restraint, making them unable to attack properly.

  • Ransom

  • Raider's negative thoughts

  • Pirates have given up and are leaving

  • Abandoned prisoner returns to ambush a caravan.

Equipment[edit]

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This Google Sheets spreadsheet shows the spawn rates of weapons and apparel across all raider kinds. Valid as of 1.0.2057. Figures are taken from a modified version of the 'Pawn Kind Gear Sampled' dev tool with a sample size of 10,000 rather than 400.

Weapons[edit]

Raiders have limited equipment possibilities; dependent on their weapon and apparel budgets, and what equipment 'tags' they are allowed to equip. Usually on Cassandra Classic and Phoebe Chillax they come equipped early on with mostly autopistols and crude melee weapons, some bolt-action rifles and pump shotguns later down the line. In the late game they can come equipped with things such as frag grenades, sniper rifles, incendiary launchers and machine pistols. Rarely some will have assault rifles or LMGs.

A raiding party may include members equipped with melee weapons and shield belts. When a raiding party includes grenade throwers, the AI is intelligent enough to run way from grenades thrown by their own faction (though this does not apply to other explosives). Raiders wielding rocket launchers will attempt to avoid friendly fire.

Counterintuitively, they can and will quite often spawn with melee weapons that result in them having a lower DPS than unarmed combat.

Also, raiders do not always use weapons appropriate to their skills, as the weapons are randomly chosen. They are often seen equipped with ranged weapons when they are better at melee (completely disregarding the Brawler trait), and vice versa.

Armor[edit]

They come in different clothing depending on their type and the outside conditions. If it's cold at your colony, they will come wearing parkas and tuques, but they don't usually wear dusters and cowboy hats in the heat.

Loot[edit]

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Raiders can spawn carrying additional items unrelated to their pawnkind and their combat role. These function as an additional reward for defeating the raid. These items spawn inside the inventories of some raiders and are dropped on their being downed. The type of loot depends on the faction the raider is from. Note that while drugs and resources do spawn as part of this loot, it is in addition to that spawned for addictions and siege construction.

The total market value of the loot is proportional to the raid points of the raid it spawns in. The loot may spawn on one raider or it may be distributed across several individuals. Note that the value does not increase after 4000 raid points.

Loot market value by Raid points

The items that compose the loot vary and are themed to the faction performing the raid. The options are:

Mechanoid Hive Outlanders Tribals Pirates EmpireContent added by the Royalty DLC

Humanlike[edit]

There are multiple types of raiders in RimWorld, each with their own sets of equipment and budgets which the game uses to 'buy' their equipment. Similarly, the game 'buys' raiders by deducting the raiders' Combat Power rating from the amount of raid points.

Raider types are exclusive to their faction - mercenaries being exempt.

Tribals[edit]

Main article: Tribes

Tribal fighters, weak but expendable. They never carry silver or medicine. They carry pemmican as food.

  • Pawn Type Image Combat Power Gear Health (%) Avg. Gear Quality Clothing Budget Weapon Budget Available Weapons Age Range
    Additional Info
    Penitent Penitent2056.png 40 20-110 Poor 50-100 90-150 Club Knife Up to 60 15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Peg leg Wooden foot Wooden hand
    Archer Archer1557.png 45 50-180 Poor 180-350 80 Short bow Up to 60 3% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Peg leg Wooden foot Wooden hand. Can never have the Brawler trait.
    Breacher Breacher tribal.png 55 50-180 Poor 200-300 150 Breach axe Up to 60 Always has a veil.
    Warrior Warrior1557.png 50 50-180 Poor 200-300 150 Ikwa Up to 60 Always has a veil.
    Hunter Hunter1722.png 60 50-180 Normal 200-300 100 Recurve bow Up to 60 Always has a veil. Can never have the Brawler trait.
    Trader Trader tribal.png 45 50-180 Normal 200-300 100 Recurve bow Up to 60 Always has a tribal headdress. Can never have the Brawler trait.
    Berserker Berserker1722.png 65 100 Normal 200-550 300 Spear Up to 60 Always has a war mask.
    Heavy Archer HeavyArcher1722.png 75 100 Normal 200-550 250 Greatbow Pila Up to 60 Always has a war mask. Can never have the Brawler trait.
    Archer chief Chief1557.png 85 100 Normal 450-750 500-1000 Greatbow At least 30 Always has a tribal headdress and plate armor. Difficult to recruit (90% base). Can be faction leader. Can never have the Brawler trait.
    Berserker chief MeleeChief2056.png 85 100 Normal 450-750 500-1000 Longsword Spear At least 30 Always has a tribal headdress and plate armor. Difficult to recruit (90% base). Can be faction leader.


    • Pirates[edit]

    Main article: Pirates

    These units are encountered most frequently in the early game, but you'll see these units throughout the game. All easily dispatched once you get armor and high-grade weapons.

    Pawn Type Image Combat Power Gear Health (%) Avg. Gear Quality Clothing Budget Weapon Budget Available Weapons Age Range
    Additional Info
    Drifter Drifter1557.png 35 20-60 Poor 90-280 60-200 Club Knife Any Never carries food. Has a 15% chance to carry 1x Herbal medicine. 15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Peg leg Wooden foot Wooden hand
    Scavenger Gunner Scavenger1557.png 50 40-110 Normal 300-500 200-300 Autopistol Bolt-action rifle Machine pistol Pump shotgun Revolver Any Has a 5% chance to carry 1x Medicine. Has a 4% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Peg leg Wooden foot Wooden hand
    Scavenger Thrasher Thrasher1557.png 50 40-110 Normal 300-800 100-160 Axe Club Gladius Knife Mace Warhammer Any Has a 5% chance to carry 1x Medicine. Has a 4% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Peg leg Wooden foot Wooden hand
    Pirate Gunner Pirate1557.png 65 70-230 Normal 400-1000 250-345 Autopistol Bolt-action rifle Incendiary launcher Machine pistol Pump shotgun Revolver Up to 65 Has a 10% chance to carry 1x Medicine. Has a 4% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Peg leg Wooden foot Wooden hand. There is a 20% chance that their weapon is biocoded to them.

    Outlanders[edit]

    Main article: Outlanders

    As friendly units, they show up in caravans or friendly reinforcements. Rough outlander unions will also send these to attack your colony in the early game.

    Pawn Type Image Combat Power Gear Health (%) Avg. Gear Quality Clothing Budget Weapon Budget Available Weapons Age Range
    Additional Info
    Villager Villager1557.png 45 20-200 Poor 200-400 65-250 Autopistol Knife Machine pistol Revolver Any 6% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Cochlear implant Drill arm Field hand Peg leg Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Wooden foot Wooden hand. 40% chance to wear headgear of some sort.
    Town Guard Guard1557.png 60 60-200 Normal 400-600 250-400 Autopistol Bolt-action rifle Heavy SMG Incendiary launcher Machine pistol Pump shotgun Revolver Any 40% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 4% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Cochlear implant Drill arm Field hand Peg leg Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Wooden foot Wooden hand.
    Town Trader Trader outlander.png 45 100 Normal 400-600 200 Autopistol Revolver Any Always has bowler hat.

    15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Cochlear implant Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Peg leg Power claw Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland Wooden foot Wooden hand.

    Town Councilman Councilman2056.png 40 100 Good 700-1200 200 Autopistol Revolver At least 30 Always has bowler hat. Only one can show in a raid.

    15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Cochlear implant Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland.

    Mercenaries[edit]

    Elite units typically encountered from mid-game onwards. Joins the Outlanders or Pirates in their ranks.

    Pawn Type Image Combat Power Gear Health (%) Avg. Gear Quality Clothing Budget Weapon Budget Available Weapons Age Range
    Additional Info
    Grenadier Grenadier1557.png 70 70-230 Normal 400-700 500 Frag grenades Molotov cocktails Up to 65 50% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 10% chance of a drug addition. 15% chance to carry between 0 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 10% chance for weapon to be biocoded. 5% chance to carry 1x Medicine Cannot have the Brawler trait.

    Has a 5% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Cochlear implant Drill arm Field hand Peg leg Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Wooden foot Wooden hand

    EMP Grenadier EMPGrenadier2056.png 55 70-230 Normal 400-700 500 EMP grenades Up to 65 50% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 10% chance of a drug addition. 15% chance to carry between 0 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 10% chance for weapon to be biocoded. 5% chance to carry 1x Medicine Cannot have the Brawler trait.

    Has a 5% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Cochlear implant Drill arm Field hand Peg leg Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Wooden foot Wooden hand

    Smoke Grenadier Grenadier smoke outlander.png 55 70-230 Normal 400-700 500 Smoke launcher Up to 65 50% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 10% chance of a drug addition. 15% chance to carry between 0 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 10% chance for weapon to be biocoded. 5% chance to carry 1x Medicine Cannot have the Brawler trait.

    Has a 5% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Cochlear implant Drill arm Field hand Peg leg Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Wooden foot Wooden hand

    Mercenary Gunner Gunner1557.png 85 70-320 Normal 1000-1500 330-650 Assault rifle Autopistol Bolt-action rifle Chain shotgun EMP launcher Heavy SMG Hellcat rifle Incendiary launcher LMG Machine pistol Pump shotgun Revolver Up to 65 50% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 10% chance of a drug addition. 5% chance to carry between 0 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 20% chance for weapon to be biocoded. 10% chance to carry 1x Medicine. Cannot have the Brawler trait.

    Has a 15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Cochlear implant Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland

    Mercenary Sniper Sniper1557.png 110 70-320 Normal 1000-1500 600-600 Sniper rifle Up to 65 50% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 10% chance of a drug addition. 15% chance to carry between 0 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 20% chance for weapon to be biocoded. 10% chance to carry 1x Medicine

    Has a 15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Cochlear implant Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland

    Mercenary Slasher Slasher1557.png 140 70-320 Normal 300-1400 200-500 Axe Gladius Longsword Mace Spear Warhammer Up to 65 Always has a Shield belt. Will never wear headgear. 10% chance of a drug addition. 15% chance to carry between 0 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 20% chance for weapon to be biocoded. 10% chance to carry 1x Medicine

    Has a 15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Cochlear implant Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland

    Heavy Mercenary Heavy1557.png 140 70-320 Normal 200-350 1200 Doomsday rocket launcher Minigun Triple rocket launcher Up to 65 50% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 10% chance of a drug addition. 15% chance to carry between 0 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 20% chance for weapon to be biocoded. 10% chance to carry 1x Medicine

    Has a 15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Cochlear implant Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland

    Elite Mercenary Elite1557.png 130 100 Normal 2500-3500 500-1400 Assault rifle Chain shotgun Heavy SMG Hellcat rifle LMG Up to 45 90% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 10% chance of a drug addition. 80% chance to carry between 1 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 30% chance for weapon to be biocoded. 10% chance to carry 1x Medicine. Cannot have the Brawler trait.

    Has a 35% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland

    Boss Elite1557.png 130 100 Normal 2500-3500 500-1400 Assault rifle Chain shotgun Heavy SMG Hellcat rifle LMG Up to 45 May be faction leader. 90% chance to wear headgear of some sort. 10% chance of a drug addiction. 80% chance to carry between 1 and 2 combat enhancing drugs. 30% chance for weapon to be biocoded. Cannot have the Brawler trait.

    Has a 35% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland

    Spacer[edit]

    Main article: Ancients

    These people don't appear in normal raids but are found in ancient shrines. This variety is always hostile to the player's faction.

    Pawn Type Image Combat Power Gear Health (%) Avg. Gear Quality Clothing Budget Weapon Budget Available Weapons Age Range
    Additional Info
    Ancient Soldier SpaceSoldier1722.png 85 100 Normal 0-3800 300-900 Assault rifle Autopistol Bolt-action rifle Chain shotgun EMP launcher Heavy SMG Hellcat rifle Incendiary launcher LMG Machine pistol Pump shotgun Revolver Any Will never have headgear of any type. Has a 40% chance to carry 1 or 2 combat enhancing drugs. Has a 20% chance to carry a biocoded weapon. Is always capable of Violent. 8% chance to have a drug addiction. Base recruit difficulty of 30%

    Has a 40% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Elbow blade Gastro-analyzer Hand talon Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Knee spike Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Stoneskin gland Toughskin gland Venom fangs Venom talon

    Empire[edit]

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    Main article: Empire
    Pawn Type Image Combat Power Gear Health (%) Avg. Gear Quality Clothing Budget Weapon Budget Available Weapons Age Range
    Additional Info
    Imperial Citizen 2 Empire Lodger.jpg 30 100 ? 200-1000 ? Charge lance Charge rifle Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Up to 65 Never has Nudist trait. Will always be a noble between Freeholder and Knight/Dame. Will only rarely spawn with a weapon - additionally they will only ever spawn with a gun when also spawning with a military Backstory, and will only ever spawn with a persona weapon when spawning also as a Knight or Dame.
    8% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Cochlear implant Peg leg Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Wooden foot Wooden hand.
    Imperial Trader Empire Trader.png 40 ? ? 1250-2500 1100-3500 Autopistol Revolver Up to 65 Will always be a noble of at least Freeholder rank. Always spawns with either a Beret, Top hat (Males only) or Ladies hat (females only). 15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Bionic ear Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Drill arm Field hand Joywire Painstopper Power claw
    Laborer 1 Empire Laborer.jpg 30 100 ? 200-1000 ? ? Up to 50 Is never incapable of Dumb Labor, Skilled Labor, Cleaning, Hauling, Mining and Firefighting. Never has Nudist trait.
    8% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Cochlear implant Peg leg Prosthetic arm Prosthetic heart Prosthetic leg Wooden foot Wooden hand.
    Trooper Empire Trooper.png 65 70-230 ? 5000-8000 1100-2500 Assault rifle Chain shotgun Heavy SMG Hellcat rifle LMG Up to 55 Always has a Flak jacket, Flak vest, Flak pants and implanted Death acidifier. Has a 25% chance to have a Gunlink. Can spawn with implants. Never has Brawler or Body purist trait. Always has Shooting skill between 4 and 10.
    30% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland.
    Janissary Empire Janissary.png 100 70-230 ? 6000-9000 1550-2700 Assault rifle Chain shotgun Charge lance Charge rifle Heavy SMG Hellcat rifle LMG Sniper rifle Up to ? Always has Black Recon armor, an implanted Death acidifier and either a Black Recon helmet (80% chance) or Gunlink (20% chance). Can spawn with implants. Never has Brawler or Body purist trait. Always has Shooting skill between 6 and 10.
    30% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland.
    Champion Empire Champion.png 100 70-230 ? 1100-2500 1250-2500 Axe Gladius Longsword Mace Monosword Plasmasword Spear Warhammer Zeushammer Up to 40 Always has white Plate armor and a Shield belt. Can spawn with implants. Never has Body purist trait. Always has a Melee skill between 8 and 13.
    30% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland.
    Grenadier ? 100 70-230 ? 6000-9000 1100~2500 Frag grenades Up to 55 Always has green Marine armor and helmet, and an implanted Death acidifier. Never has Brawler or Body purist traits. Always has a Shooting skill between 4 and 10.
    30% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Toughskin gland.
    Cataphract Empire Cataphract.png 150 70-230 ? 7000-10000 1250-2500 Charge lance Charge rifle Minigun Up to 40 Always has white Cataphract armor, implanted Death acidifier and Armorskin gland, and either a white Cataphract helmet (80% chance) or a Gunlink (20% chance). Has a small chance to be Yeoman, but if not, will always be a Freeholder. Never has Brawler or Body purist traits. Always has a Shooting skill between 8 and 12.
    30% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Stoneskin gland Toughskin gland.
    Stellic Warden 7 Empire Stellic Guard Melee.jpg 150 100 Excellent 7000-10000 3000-3500 Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Up to 40 Always has a Black Prestige cataphract helmet, Red Prestige cataphract armor and hyperweave clothes, Shield belt, and implanted Death acidifier, Stoneskin gland, and 2x Bionic eyes. Will always be a Knight/Dame. Never has Body purist, Wimp or Nudist traits. Always has a Melee skill between 11 and 16. Can never spawn with a Mindscrew.
    30% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Psychic harmonizer Psychic reader Psychic sensitizer Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Stoneskin gland Toughskin gland.
    Stellic Defender 8 Empire Stellic Guard Ranged.jpg 150 100 Excellent 7000-10000 3000-3500 Charge lance Charge rifle Up to 40 Always has a Black Prestige cataphract helmet, Red Prestige cataphract armor and hyperweave clothes, and implanted Death acidifier, Stoneskin gland, and 2x Bionic eyes. Will always be a noble between Freeholder and Knight/Dame. Never has Body purist, Brawler, Wimp or Nudist traits. Always has a Shooting skill between 11 and 16. Can never spawn with a Mindscrew.
    30% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Psychic harmonizer Psychic reader Psychic sensitizer Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Stoneskin gland Toughskin gland.
    Bestower Empire Bestower.png 50 ? Excellent 1000~1500 99999 Eltex staff 50+ Always has a Red Hood, red hyperweave Prestige robe, red formal shirt, red hyperweave pants. Has an 8% chance to also spawn with a red eltex vest. Never has Body purist or Nudist traits. Is never incapable of Violence.
    15% chance to have one of the following prostheses: Aesthetic nose Aesthetic shaper Armorskin gland Bionic arm Bionic ear Bionic eye Bionic heart Bionic leg Bionic spine Bionic stomach Bionic tongue Circadian assistant Circadian half-cycler Coagulator Detoxifier kidney Detoxifier lung Drill arm Field hand Gastro-analyzer Healing enhancer Immunoenhancer Joywire Learning assistant Love enhancer Neurocalculator Nuclear stomach Painstopper Power claw Psychic harmonizer Psychic reader Psychic sensitizer Reprocessor stomach Sterilizing stomach Stoneskin gland Toughskin gland.
    Yeoman Empire Yeoman.png 120 100 Excellent ? ? Monosword Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be a yeoman. Wears miscellaneous clothes depending on their role in the empire. Has a 30% chance to wear a cape
    Acolyte ? 125 100 Excellent ? ? Monosword Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be an acolyte. Always wears a tan-coloured formal shirt, cape and a black beret. All clothes will be made of synthread.
    Knight/Dame ? 130 130 Excellent ? ? Monosword Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be a knight/dame. Always wears a black-coloured formal shirt, cape and beret. All clothes will be made of synthread.
    Praetor ? 135 100 Excellent ? ? Monosword Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be a praetor. Always wears a grey-coloured formal shirt, cape and a black beret. All clothes will be made of synthread.
    Baron/Baroness ? 135 100 Excellent ? ? Monosword Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be a baron/baroness. Always wears a formal shirt, a formal vest (Male) or corset (Female), a cape and a steel coronet. Non-pants clothes will be dyed grey or purple at random. All clothes will be made of synthread.
    Count/Countess ? 135 100 Excellent ? ? Monosword Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be a count/countess. Always wears a purple formal shirt, a black formal vest (Male) or corset (Female), a purple cape or prestige robe and a steel coronet. All clothes will be made of synthread.
    Duke/Duchess ? 135 100 Excellent ? ? Monosword Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be a duke/duchess. Always wears a purple formal shirt, a black formal vest (Male) or corset (Female), a purple cape or prestige robe and a plasteel coronet. All clothes will be made of synthread.
    Consul
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    Consul pawn
    		 135 100 Excellent ? ? Monosword Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be a consul. Always wears a navy blue formal shirt, navy blue formal vest (Male) or corset (Female), white cape or prestige robe and a plasteel coronet. All clothes will be made of hyperweave.
    Stellarch Empire Stellarch.png 135 100 Excellent ? ? Monosword Persona monosword Persona plasmasword Persona zeushammer Plasmasword Zeushammer ? Will always be a stellarch. Always wears a purple formal shirt, purple formal vest (Male) or corset (Female), red prestige robe and a golden stellic crown. All clothes will be made of hyperweave.


    Mechanoid[edit]

    Main article: Mechanoid

    Mechanical enemies that neither feel pain nor seek cover.

    Pawn Type Image Combat Power Gear Health (%) Avg. Gear Quality Clothing Budget Weapon Budget Available Weapons Age Range Additional Info
    Scyther Scyther east.png 150 100 - - - Melee (Blades) Any -
    Lancer MechanoidLancer.png 180 100 Normal - 9999 Charge lance Any -
    Centipede Centipede east.png 400 100 Normal - 9999 Heavy charge blaster, Inferno cannon, Minigun Any -
    Pikeman MechanoidPikeman.png 110 100 Normal - 9999 Needle gun Any -
    Termite Termite.png 110 100 Normal - 9999 Thump cannon Any -
    Militor Militor east.png 45 100 Normal - 9999 Mini-shotgun Any -
    Legionary Legionary east.png 150 100 Normal - 9999 Needle gun Any -
    Tesseron Tesseron east.png 150 100 Normal - 9999 Beam graser Any -
    Scorcher Scorcher east.png 110 100 Normal - 9999 Mini-flameblaster Any -
    Tunneler Tunneler Mechanoid east.png 400 100 Normal - 9999 Melee (Power claws) Any -
    Centurion Centurion east.png 250 100 Normal - 9999 Charge blaster turret Any -
    Diabolus Diabolus east.png 600 100 Normal - 9999 Hellsphere cannon Any -
    War queen Warqueen east.png 600 100 Normal - 9999 Charge blaster turret Any -
    Apocriton ApocritonAncient east.png 600 100 Normal - 9999 Toxic needle gun Any -
    War urchin War urchin east.png 75 100 Normal - 9999 Spiner Any -

    Mechanoid cluster[edit]

    Main article: Mechanoid cluster

    Added in Royalty was the "Mechanoid Cluster" event, which may be associated with quests or drop on their own. During this event, a fleet of drop pods will land and deploy mechanoids, walls, turrets, and assorted buildings. These mechanoids will initially be dormant. They are eventually awakened by either the player attacking, a Proximity activator being tripped, or a Count-down activator finishing its count down.

    Raiders' strategies[edit]

    The message from the event will detail how the raiders from the hostile faction will raid.

    General Mechanics[edit]

    Raider Targeting[edit]

    Standard raiders, including humans and mechanoids, attack targets based on a rough priority system with some random elements. Raiders who are able to path towards a colonist or powered turret will attempt to attack such a colonist or pathable furniture. Raiders who are only able to path towards furniture may attack that furniture or may instead attack random walls and doors. The chance raiders attack the furniture rather than random walls and doors has some random elements to it. Raiders who cannot path towards any colonist nor any furniture targets will attack random walls and doors.

    Pathable means that the raider can move to the same cell as the target. "Furniture" targets include objects like stools, tables, chairs, and even things like Wind Turbines, Geothermal Generators, Unpowered Turrets, and production benches.

    Raider targeting can change based on nearby targets, if their target is destroyed or becomes non-pathable, or if they take damage.

    Raider targeting can also be overridden by nearby targets of opportunity. Raiders may light wooden walls or crops on fire, for example.

    "Victory" Conditions[edit]

    Human raiders continue to attack until one of several conditions are met. Mechanoid raiders attack indefinitely. Once mechanoids have destroyed every possible target they wander around in place indefinitely until a new target appears.

    Downing or killing 40 to 70% of human raiders causes the remaining alive raiders to cease their attack and attempt to flee. A random value between 40 and 70% is chosen for each raider group. If a raid attacks in multiple groups, each group has their own randomly chosen 40 to 70% flee value. Each individual raider group only counts dead or downed members of their own group. Each group attacks and flees independently.

    Human Raiders will flee after attacking for approximately 10 to 15 hours. A random value is chosen between these timers. After the time is passed the group will flee. For enemies attacking in multiple groups, each group will have its own timer and solely that group will flee when the timer is met. For sieges, the timer only begins after the siege stops attempting to siege and directly assaults the colony.

    Human enemies may attempt to kidnap downed colonists. When kidnapping, enemies may disengage from combat and attempt to flee the map.

    Human enemies may attempt to steal nearby loot. When stealing, enemies may disengage from combat and attempt to flee the map. How much nearby loot is required to cause raider theft depends on the raid points of the colony. Higher raid points requires more loot.

    Map Entry Attack Type Smart? Faction Raiders Ally use this raid?
    Walk in Edge (45%) Immediate Attack No Tribal, Outlander, Pirate, Mechanoid Yes
    Yes
    Yes (Breach) No
    Preparation No Tribal, Outlander, Pirate Yes
    Yes
    Sapper No No
    Siege No Yes
    Walk in Edge Group (15%) Immediate Attack No Yes
    Yes
    Sapper No No
    Drop pods (30%) Immediate Attack No Tribal, Outlander, Pirate, Empire, Mechanoid Yes
    Yes
    Yes (Breach) No
    Preparation No Yes
    Yes
    Sapper No Tribal, Outlander, Pirate, Empire No
    Siege No Yes
    Haywired drop pods (10%) Immediate Attack No Tribal, Outlander, Pirate, Empire, Mechanoid
    Mechanoid Cluster Content added by the Royalty DLC No Mechanoid No


    Immediate attack[edit]

    They are attacking immediately.

    — Description

    Raiders, upon either landing in their drop pods or arriving on the map sides, will proceed to instantaneously converge on your colony and attack. The best thing to do is to defend.

    "Drop right on top of you" drop pods[edit]

    Raiders will drop pod right "on top of you" circumventing all exterior defenses. "Drop on top of you" raids choose a singular colonist and all drop pods land around this target in open cells. That singular colonist cannot be under overhead mountain. The drop pods can crash through nearby overhead mountain even though the singular colonist target cannot currently be under overhead mountain.

    Only outlander, pirate and empire factions can "Drop right on top of you". Tribal factions cannot use drop pods. Mechanoid "Drop right on top of you" raids were removed in patch 1.4.

    Rather than landing on a colonist, "Drop right on top of you" raids have a 40% chance to land on a powered, unroofed, orbital trade beacon.

    These "drop right on top of you" raids always attack immediately and follow standard enemy pathing.

    Immediate attack smart[edit]

    Like Immediate Attack, but the raiders are unusually clever in their tactics because they try to avoid turret line of sight if possible. If there is no path to the raider's target around turret line of sight, or if their target is a turret, they will walk through turret line of sight.

    Despite their description, they do not avoid traps like Spike Traps nor IEDS in anyway.

    Preparation[edit]

    Raiders, upon either landing in their drop pods or arriving on the map sides, will proceed to stand around in a small group near-by where they spawned for a period of time and then proceed to attack. It is possible and a completely viable strategy to attack them while they are "preparing". This preparation has no effect on their attack other than the fact that it gives you more time to prepare yourself.

    Sappers[edit]

    It looks like they want to use sappers to tunnel around your defenses.

    — Description

    Instead of attempting to kill your colonists by traditional attack, sappers will mine or blast their way inside rather than hitting your walls or doors as usual. Their ultimate goal is an assigned sleeping position. An assigned sleeping position can be a colonist bed, an animal bed, or even a freely placed prison sleeping spot that is assigned to a prisoner.

    The attacker with the best mining skill is chosen to dig. If that digger is killed the next best digger continues digging, and so on.

    They can be fairly dangerous to those who tunnel into mountains as their defenses are usually concentrated at the entrances. The best thing to do is instantly assault them before they can mine too much. The other members will then carry on the normal assault. They seem to avoid digging through high-health ore veins or into the areas within the range of improvised turrets and don't mind much about other security traps (spike trap and all kind of IEDs). It's possible to create such an trap area to kill them before hand.

    However, in open bases they are even worse than regular raiders as they come in smaller numbers.

    Sappers can find one tile defenses, either natural rock or built walls. This may cause them to open ancient shrines unintentionally.

    • 1: Sappers are good at finding one tile walls.

    • 2: Sappers may even open ancient shrines unwisely.

    • 3: Sappers attacking ancient structures will kill spacers you would love to recruit.

    • 4: Sappers may cause mechanoids to function as your outer defense line.

    • 5: Sappers are defeated.

    Breachers[edit]

    These raiders intend to breach your walls. They'll determine their own path into your colony and destroy anything in their way.

    — Description

    Much like the Sapper strategy, raiders will utilize their tools to easily breach past the walls more. Breachers, like sappers, target assigned sleeping positions. Compared to Sappers, Breachers comes equipped with tools designed to destroy walls more easily (Tribals access to breach axe, Royal, Pirates and Colony uses frag grenades, and Mechanoids utilizes their Termite wielding thump cannon) regardless of their mining skill. Unlike the Sappers, they mostly target after colony-built walls in their direct path, rather than mining to the shortest route. Any raiding pawns nearby will always follow the breaching pawn in question, only attacking within range. Breachers will not attack passable player buildings, and instead only target impassable buildings like walls.

    They ignore walls that are not owned by the colonist unless there are no other pathway around them and the walls, making it more difficult to trick the breachers into unintentionally opening the ancient shrines.

    Unlike sappers which usually come in small numbers of raiders, breachers are always followed by a ton of raiding pawns, or Centipedes in the case of Termite, which covers the disadvantageous issue that the Sapping raid in the open has with. This kind of raid will appear more frequently if the wealth is high enough.

    Siegers arriving at their chosen minibase location. The faint "blueprint" for the base is not visible until the resources are dropped.
    Siegers done constructing their minibase and questionable defenses, moving toward commencing bombardment.

    Siege[edit]

    See also: Auto-mortar

    It looks like they want to besiege the colony and pound you with mortars from a distance. You can try to wait it out - or go get them.

    — Description

    Raiders enter your map from an edge and head towards a point well outside your base to set up a makeshift siege base. Once there, drop pods supply them with ample resources to construct 2 mortars (steel, components, and both high-explosive shells and incendiary shells). They also get some cloth to create sandbags as cover, and packaged survival meals. Two random raiders will begin constructing the mortars (one each), and a few more will throw the sandbags down while the rest stand guard.

    You can engage them before they finish building up if timing is favorable to you. They will always attempt to construct only two mortars regardless of the number of raiders. The layout of the mortar base is somewhat random - they might decide to place a mortar where some trees need cutting first, slowing the process considerably, and the sandbags are rarely well placed. The siegers rarely use their best constructors when building (it's random), so sometimes fail the construction process and waste that mortar's resources. As they will not get additional components, this will make any bombardment half as damaging.

    Siegers not engaging friendlies while traveling to set up base.

    Once a mortar is ready, they will start to bombard you, guarded by those not busy manning the mortars or still building the second one. Drop pods will continuously resupply 12 packaged survival meals and more mortar shells, as needed. They can receive different types of shells during the siege, which can be less or more dangerous to your colony, depending. After causing enough destruction, they will proceed as a normal raid to converge on your colony. Valid targets appear to be colonists and buildings but not player owned animals.

    The siege team will not engage friendlies while heading towards their future base until they actually start constructing or you assault them first.

    A siege will begin their direct assault of the player colony under a few conditions. The siege will begin their assault after a random amount of time between 1.5 and 3 days has past. Every time a sieger takes damage there's an 8% chance the siege assaults directly.

    Ambush[edit]

    Raiders may choose to attack one of your caravans. In this case, they will charge right at your caravan without giving a second thought to strategy.

    Multiple group attacks[edit]

    Enemies can split up their attacking forces, attacking using multiple groups at once. Each group attacks from a different direction, and flees on their own accord.

    Drop pod scatter[edit]

    Enemies capable of drop pods have a chance of launching a raiding party onto the map via said pods at random points scattered around the map. Due to the fact they can drop through roofs, this type of attack can be incredibly devastating, as they can bypass all of your external defenses and immediately start setting fires, attacking colonists, and destroying furniture. The layout of your base and the room they choose to drop in can also make it very difficult to set up a sufficient defense, as they may drop into an extremely unfortunate location, such as a cramped storage room with lots of things to burn and destroy, and no good way to attack them beyond filing all of your fighting colonists into the room and hoping for the best or attempting to shoot through the door. While the raiders themselves will most likely be easy enough to kill, it is likely they will have ample opportunity to cause tons of damage before they can be stopped. Setting up ample fire defenses and having a defense plan for all potential drop points can help limit the amount of damage they can cause, although it’s almost guaranteed they will be able to cause at least some damage if they drop directly into a room.

    Weapon-specific raids[edit]

    Humanlike raiders have the ability to send raiders with a specific kind of weapon only.

    Melee rush[edit]

    Pirate or outlander raiders have the chance to attack your base with mercenary slashers only, meaning everyone will be shielded and have a melee weapon. Tribals can do the same with their melee units, except without shields.

    Mechanoids have their own rendition of the melee rush with scythers only.

    Sniper party[edit]

    Pirates or outlanders have a chance to send snipers only, meaning that all attackers will have long-ranged attacks.

    Explosives assault[edit]

    Pirates or outlanders have the chance to send a party consisting of either grenadiers or heavy mercenaries. While this makes them extremely destructive, it also makes them particularly prone to friendly fire.

    Raid strength[edit]

    Main article: Raid points

    A raid's size and strength is determined by the amount of colonists you have, your wealth, how many big threats you've had (for the early-game), how long your faction's been around for, how long it's been since one of your colonists were downed or killed, and your difficulty.

    The actual raid strength is determined by points, which is calculated by taking into account the above factors that affect raid strength.

    For a full technical breakdown; see Raid points

    Defense strategies[edit]

    For a more comprehensive list of strategies, see Defense tactics.
    For constructed defenses to hold against raiders, see Defense structures.

    It is recommended to keep power generation, eating areas, lighting, doors, and walls near or behind a protected entrance, as raiders tend to set fire to them, potentially causing huge damage. Raiders will prioritize firing on colonists or turrets when those colonists or turrets are firing on them, but will otherwise prioritize random objects, meaning you can put doors or walls near your defenses to temporarily distract them.

    Raider preparation[edit]

    Raiders will sometimes start by standing around in a group where they spawned and will continue this until they see a colonist nearby or they hit a certain preparation time limit, at which point they begin the assault. Because a colonist can set them off early, you can plan out the time you want them to attack. It is generally best to set them off early if you're well-prepared, to avoid potentially troublesome scenarios such as having no power when their timer runs out. Conversely, you should not set them off early if your defense is not prepared. Note that raiders usually take less than one day to begin, meaning that if there is an eclipse and you rely on solar generators, you should not wait for them and should instead set them off early while you still have some power left.

    Siege defense[edit]

    When faced with a siege, there are a few coping strategies you can use.

    You can choose to either to assault the mortar base or wait it out and repair the damage as best as you can. The choice mainly depends on the surroundings of the mortar base and your base's position. If your base is located under a mountain (your base tiles will read Overhead Mountain when you hover your cursor over them), the mortar shells won't be able to hit those tiles at all! This makes deep mining a very effective strategy against heavy bombardment. If you don't build your base into a mountain, you should at least consider digging out at least one panic room for your colonists to hide within from the shells.

    If you assault their base, one possibility is sniping either the shells or the mortars, hoping an explosion kills many of the raiders. If you want to leave those intact, you can snipe the raiders themselves. Keep in mind that killing enough of them prompts them to assault your colony directly instead of continuing their siege.

    Mechanoid assaults[edit]

    Mechanoids have much differing stats and weapons, meaning different tactics may be used.

    In most raids where they come/ drop in at the edges, the scythers will outrun the centipedes by a great margin, giving plenty of time to deal with them before the centipedes.

    Lancers[edit]

    Lancers are capable of mid-long range high damage attacks. If fighting it from a distance, cover along with mid-long ranged weapons such as assault rifles or bolt-action rifles are vital.

    Due to the lancers' weak melee ability and low health, melee fighting it is always the better choice.

    Scyther[edit]

    Scythers are dangerous melee fighters; they deal significant melee damage while forcing your gunners into melee combat. Usually, a 1v1 fight with a scyther and a gunner will result in the scyther emerging victorious.

    Melee fighters are useful in guarding against scythers, being able to 'peel' them off from more vulnerable allies. A thrumbo could beat up one easily, they are strong enough that even a calf could kill one in a 1v1.

    Pikemen[edit]

    Pikemen can snipe your colonists from a very long distance, though their damage output is abysmal.

    Due to the pikemen's weak melee ability and low health, melee fighting it is always the better choice.

    Centipedes[edit]

    Centipedes, on the other hand, specialize in crowd control and area denial; the minigun and heavy charge blaster can annihilate groups of colonists, while the inferno cannon sets your colonists ablaze and burns down your base if not careful. They are incredibly durable, sporting thick armor and high health, and can take many hits before they can be downed.

    The inferno cannon is not as directly destructive towards your colonists, but is dangerous due to the fire it spreads - destroying defenses and bases, causing burning pawns to run out of cover, and preventing movement. Keep watch on your colonists at all times, and remember to send them back into cover when needed. As a precaution, build your base out of non-flammable materials to prevent large-scale fires erupting all over your colony.

    Engaging it in melee is not recommended due to its armor, high health and heavy damage.

    Tribal raids[edit]

    Tribal raiders come in large numbers, but with relatively poor equipment; as such, it may require different strategy compared to pirate or outlander raids.

    Overall, they can deal heavy damage to your colonists; they do not have good weapons, but compensate with their sheer numbers.
    However, as tribalwear does not provide protection and they do not wear any form of regular armor, they are easier to kill individually than other raiders.

    Crowd control is an important aspect in defeating tribal raids. The minigun or LMG is an effective weapon to use as it can easily mow down groups of raiders.

    Explosive weapons are also useful in crowd control.

    Explosive mortars, while inaccurate, can easily destroy a sizable group of tribals at once if they hit.
    Grenades can hit archers hiding behind cover, though you have to risk a colonist or two in order to even get close enough to throw them.

    Their archers are dangerous; their bows can be fired from a somewhat long distance, their pila can easily kill or incapacitate a colonist, and they always come in a large volley. As with most defensive strategies, cover is essential when fighting them.

    Removing rock chunks also helps in dealing with tribal raiders hiding behind them, making them much easier to hit.

    Version history[edit]

    • 0.0.245 - Sniper squad and mercenary squad added.
    • 0.3.410 - Raiders come from specific factions and don’t always drop from orbit. Tribal raiders now spawn and attack.
    • 0.5.492 - Sieges added.
    • 0.11.877 - Sappers added. Raiders now opportunistically ignite crops on fire.
      • A11B - Siegers can never use melee weapons. Enemies (especially wargs) now ignore unpowered unmanned turrets and mortars.
    • 0.12.906 - Sappers now avoid mining through high-health ores and barriers. Siegers will never be sent with only melee weapons ... again?
    • Beta 19/ 1.0 - Heavily reworked the selection weights of raider factions, raider strategies (sappers, siege, etc) and arrival modes (walk-in, drop pods) to make the more difficult ones appear more consistently against stronger colonies.
    • 1.3.3066 - Added new raid type: Breaching. Breaching raids will attempt to reach your colony by breaking through walls with unique weapons.
    • 1.3.3159 - Reduce prevalence of breach raids at high points levels.
    • 1.3.3200 - Adjusted human factions' raid strategy selection weights for slightly more variation. Breachers no longer want to attack passable player buildings. They only target impassable buildings like walls.
    • 1.4.3524 - Fix: Breach raids not spawning.
    Factions
    Human Factions
    Ancients (Neutral, Hostile) • Tribes (Gentle, Fierce, Savage, CannibalContent added by the Ideology DLC, NudistContent added by the Ideology DLC, Fierce neanderthalContent added by the Biotech DLC, Savage impidContent added by the Biotech DLC) • Outlanders (Civil, Rough, Rough pigContent added by the Biotech DLC) • Pirates (Normal, CannibalContent added by the Ideology DLC, YttakinContent added by the Biotech DLC, WasterContent added by the Biotech DLC) • Empire Content added by the Royalty DLC
    Non-human Factions
    Insectoids • Mechanoids
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    Faction base • Raider

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