Editing Scenario system

The '''scenario system''' allows you to choose, randomize, and customize special situations to play in. Determine the starting situation, type of community (tribe, colony), permanent map conditions, starting items, animals, health conditions, traits, and change special rules. In the image on the right, you can see the window for choosing scenarios and the "Open Steam Workshop" button (if you are using the steam version of the game).

Starting scenarios can be roughly grouped into one of two types, determined by the faction type the player will inherit. These are:

*'''New tribes:''' Inherited by the "Lost Tribe" default scenario, and selectable in the scenario editor.

*'''New arrivals:'''  Inherited by the "Crashlanded", "Rich Explorer", and "Naked Brutality" default scenarios, and selectable in the scenario editor.

 

 

The most significant difference is the starting [[research]] and the long term effects on research speed. New Tribes begin with a different, and lower tech, set of research projects already completed, as described below. Note that custom and default scenarios may also add additional technologies to these lists.

 

Furthermore, new tribes start with a tech level of "Neolithic", while new arrivals begin with a tech level of "Industrial". This increases the research needed for new tribes to research technologies above neolithic, with the penalty increasing as the tech level does. Note that a great majority of techs on the research tree are classified as Industrial or higher.

 

* Tribals forage 70% more food while traveling. More info about how this affects nutrition can be found on the [[Caravan#Foraging|Caravan]] page.

* Tribals can build the [[hoopstone ring]] and [[Game-of-Ur board]]. Arrivals can build the [[horseshoes pin]] and [[chess table]].

** Hoopstone rings cost twice the material as horseshoes pins, for no meaningful difference beyond also requiring a [[Sight]] above 0% to use. The Game-of-Ur board costs half the material of a chess table, but provides less recreation.

* Tribals have a harder time recruiting from [[Factions#Pirates|outlanders and pirates]], and Arrivals have a harder time recruiting from [[Tribes|tribal factions]]. Recruitment difficulty is increased by 32%, which increases prisoner resistance (see [[Prisoner#Starting_resistance|Starting Resistance]] for details).

** Will all have [[Backstories|backstories]] from the "Tribal" category, which often have the Natural [[meditation focus]]. This allows most tribals to meditate at the [[Anima tree]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}.

*** Any [[children]]{{BiotechIcon}} of a tribe also gain the natural meditation focus, unless [[Growth vat|Vatgrown]] for enough time.

** Have [[Backstories|backstories]] from the "Offworld" category.  

These four scenarios are in the base game. Each offers a different set of challenges, and encourages different playstyles to a certain extent. For example: you could start off as a 'rich explorer' who came from a high-tech glitterworld but yearned to explore the universe, or you could also start as a desperate tribe that's on the brink of starvation after fleeing from a devastating group of '[[mechanoid|blood machines]]'. On the other hand, you could be managing a few crashlanded civilians who barely escaped an assaulted passenger liner with their lives.

Here are the four scenarios listed in order as shown in game:

* Start with three people, chosen from eight

** They will be [[#New Tribe vs New Arrivals|New Arrivals]]

** 50% chance of having [[cryptosleep sickness]] (reduces consciousness, affects motor skills, causes frequent vomiting. Only lasts 3.2 to 4.8 in-game hours)

* Start with three normal-[[quality]] weapons

** 1 [[revolver]]

** 50 [[packaged survival meal]]s (around 8 days worth of food)  

* Start with five people, chosen from eight

** They will be a [[#New Tribe vs New Arrivals|New Tribe]]

** They have a 50% chance of starting with [[malnutrition]]

** 1 steel [[ikwa]]

** 400 [[pemmican]] (slightly more than 2 day's worth of food, 300 pre-Beta 19)

* Start with one person, chosen from eight

** They will be [[#New Tribe vs New Arrivals|New Arrivals]]

** [[Research#Passive cooler|Passive Cooler]]

** [[Research#Gun turrets|Gun Turrets]]

** 40 packaged survival meals (around 20 days worth of food)

===Naked Brutality===

'''Summary:''' One mechanitor and a few servant mechanoids.<br>

'''Description:''' You knew you could only achieve greatness with help. People were too unreliable, so you chose to take on mechanoids as your servants, workers, and warriors. As you gained strength, others became fearful. It became clear you needed to get away from the influence of humanity. Now you've migrated to this sparsely-populated rimworld with some of your metallic helpers. Finally, you have the space to grasp your true potential!

 

Note: Since your starting character will lack some skills, this is a difficult scenario.

*Start with one person, chosen from eight

** They will always be a [[mechanitor]]

** They will always have the [[Recluse]] trait, and never have the [[Body purist]], [[Psychically dull]], or [[Psychically deaf]] traits.

*** 1x [[Button-down shirt]]

* The exostrider remains that usually spawn on the starting map will also be disabled.

===The Sanguophage===

Note: Sanguophages have unique strengths and weaknesses, which makes this a difficult scenario.

*Start with one adult/children [[sanguophage]] and one [[baseliner]] colonist of any age.

===The Anomaly===

{{Anomaly|section=1}}

| New Arrivals<br>New Tribe

| The number of people you will start with.

| Standing<br>Drop pods

==== Voluntary parts ====

| The biological age range of your starting colonists.

| Self explanatory. Number determines radius.

| Any incident

| Any building

| Number (max 100000000000)<br>Animal

 

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