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"Mechanoids - Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Only available to advanced cultures because such complex AI is needed to control them."

—RimWorld Universe Quick Primer

Centipede

Centipede

"Heavy combat mechanoids that glide on dozens of tiny legs. Their heavy armor and firepower makes them very effective against bunched-up static defenders. They are somewhat vulnerable to mobile hit-and-run tactics."

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Type

Mechanoid – Characters

Armor - Blunt

40%

Armor - Sharp

70%

Move Speed

1.9

Attack

head
11.7 dmg (blunt)
156 ticks (2.6 secs)

Average DPS

2.79

Centipedes are mechanoids which do not eat, cannot be tamed or trained, and are always hostile to the colony. They can be found sealed in ancient ruins in all biomes, spawn inside mountains or outside on the landscape. They may also raid the player's base through events and can also be found in most poison ships and psychic ships. They will target doors, walls, base production tables and furniture.

Centipedes are often supported by scythers or lancers, though they usually outpace the centipedes by a great margin and won't stop to wait for them.

Dead centipedes may be disassembled at the machining table for 50 steel, 10 plasteel, and 2 components, though these values are affected by mechanoid disassembly efficiency as well as missing parts on the centipede.

Combat & Strategy

Centipedes are slow-moving and highly resistant to sharp damage, which includes bullets, so they require many shots to take down with guns. Centipedes are equipped with a heavy charge blaster or an inferno cannon.

Slow movement speed is a significant weakness of this enemy, providing an effective way to take them down. A pawn with a default movement speed using a long-ranged weapon (sniper rifle or charge lance) should be able to safely take a shot and move away before a Centipede is able to respond.

Melee swarms are possible with little risk of long-term injuries, provided pawns can safely close the distance. Shield belts, drawing their fire from a different direction, or simply using walls and terrain to block projectiles are all good ways to move in. Centipedes with the heavy charge blaster must be simultaneously engaged in melee to make sure none of them can use their weapons, otherwise they can eviscerate your colonist at point-blank before you can get the victim to escape.
Micromanagement should make sure that weaker fighters are targeted first, so that better ones can fight for longer before passing out from bruise pain.

Centipedes are good at crowd control, but struggle against single or widely scattered targets. One effective way of distracting fire from them (if they are not equipped with the inferno cannon or supported by lancers) is to simply let a colonist with a shield belt stand in front of other colonists; the centipedes will focus fire on the shielded colonist, allowing your other colonists to fire at the centipedes without getting hurt.

If you can spare the resources, uranium slug turrets can be an extremely effective counter to Centipedes, as they outrange them greatly and their shots are powerful enough to pierce their thick armor. Their tendency to stay at range keeps them roughly within the slug turret's effective range.

Biology

Centipedes consist entirely of mechanical parts, and are mostly composed of very large 'rings' that make their appearance similar to that of a real-life centipede. Despite being somewhat sluggish (in movement and appearance), they are immensely durable and can absorb a significant amount of fire before they are killed.

Centipedes have six body rings, several sensors for hearing, sight, and smell, and an artificial brain that drives them. Interestingly enough, they lack any sort of communication parts and always spawn with their communication indicated as 'None', or no ability to. The only other external body part a centipede has other than its rings is its head, making it very difficult to actually kill a centipede.

Diet

Centipedes are machines, and machines don't need to eat - but they do need some source of power.

Currently, it is unknown what power source or other source of energy the Centipede uses.

Combat

Centipedes are mechanized heavy siege units, and as such are equipped with either an inferno cannon or a heavy charge blaster, but are also able to engage in melee combat with colonists.

Melee Attacks	Damage Amount	Cooldown
Blunt	11.7	2.6 sec

Centipedes are much less dangerous in melee range. If you have well-protected brawlers and are able to lock down all centipedes in melee range, that is highly beneficial. They won't be able to spray bullets everywhere. Eventually even well-protected brawlers will go down from pain due to multiple bruises, but it should not be fatal, and meanwhile they (and your gunners) should be able to more effectively deal damage to the centipedes.

Body Parts (Summary)

Centipedes are actually very simplistic and robust in design, with not that many parts overall. Their obvious weakness is that they're able to be severed in two, rapidly reducing their ability to move (which may eventually kill them).

• Note: Centipedes have a health scale of 2.0 - meaning their parts have twice the health of body parts listed in the files.

Body Part Name	Health (× Health Scale)	Base Health	Quantity	Coverage (per part)	Group	Function / Required for following System	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
First Body Ring	200	100	1	?	Core Part	Functioning in general	Machine Failure
Mechanical Head	60	30	1	8.0%	Head	Houses Artificial Brain, Sensors	Machine Failure
Artificial Brain	60	30	1	20%	Inside Head	Data processing	Machine Failure
Sight Sensor	20	10	2	15%	Head	Sight	Loss of sight/Blindness
Hearing Sensor	20	10	2	5.0%	Head	Hearing	Loss of hearing/Deafness
Smell Sensor	20	10	1	10%	Head	-	-
Second Body Ring	170	85	1	75%	Inside first ring	Moving, Manipulation	Loss of moving/manipulation ability
Third Body Ring	140	70	1	80%	Inside second ring	Moving, Manipulation	Loss of moving/manipulation ability
Fourth Body Ring	110	55	1	75%	Inside third ring	Moving, Manipulation	Loss of moving/manipulation ability
Fifth Body Ring	80	40	1	66%	Inside fourth ring	Moving, Manipulation	Loss of moving/manipulation ability
Sixth Body Ring	200	100	1	50%	Inside fifth ring	Moving, Manipulation	Loss of moving/manipulation ability

Scyther

Scyther

"Fast, spindly, human-sized combat mechanoids specializing in rapid approach and close-range combat. Their bodies are covered in points and blades, but they mostly use two arm blades to lop off limbs or gut their victims alive."

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Type

Mechanoid – Characters

Armor - Blunt

20%

Armor - Sharp

40%

Move Speed

4.7

Attack 1

left blade
20 dmg (cut)
120 ticks (2 secs)

Attack 2

right blade
20 dmg (cut)
120 ticks (2 secs)

Average DPS

6.2

Scythers are a type of fast-moving mechanoid with strong melee skills that can be found sealed in ancient ruins in all biomes, either spawned inside mountains or outside on the landscape. They may also raid the player's base through a random raid-type event and can also be found in most poison ships and psychic ships.

Scythers are often supported by centipedes and lancers, though they outrun centipedes by a huge margin, and will not stop to let them catch up.

Like other mechanoids, scythers are sentient machine-like creatures which do not need to eat, cannot be tamed or trained, and are always hostile to the colony. Scythers have a moderate resistance to sharp damage and a small resistance to blunt damage combined with an average health scale, making them trivial to disable at range with sufficient firepower. Scythers are vulnerable to deadfall traps, with only a few hits required to kill them.

Scythers will always charge head-on at your colonists, being horrifyingly effective at melee.

Dead scythers may be disassembled at the machining table for 20 steel, 5 plasteel and 1 component, though these values are affected by mechanoid disassembly efficiency.

Combat & Strategy

Main article: Defense tactics#Scythers

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 essential in guarding against scythers, being able to 'peel' them off from more vulnerable allies.

Trivia

• Scythers have a unique slashing sound when they use their melee attacks.

Version history

Prior to Beta 19, scythers will always spawn equipped with the charge lance and will generally prefer to engage at range over melee.
Downed scythers could also be salvaged through a medical operation to obtain their blades so long as they are intact after battle.

Biology

Scythers, although mechanical and not very human-looking, are actually almost the same in structure as a typical human (minus the organs). However, they're more durable than humans, don't feel pain and do not fear for their life - they don't even use cover. This can make them very dangerous to fight against when under-armed.

They have two arms, run on two legs, and (surprisingly) have a neck and make vocal communication. Why a machine would use standard human-like air-based vocalization is unknown at this time - especially when Centipedes are completely unable to manually communicate.

Diet

Much like Centipedes, it's unknown what exactly drives a Scyther, but it's likely it would be similar to whatever powers the Centipede.

Combat

Scythers attack with a blade attached to each arm, which does 20 damage per hit, which is significant and is quickly dangerous, even to brawlers.

Melee Attacks	Damage Amount	Cooldown
Cut	20	2.0 sec

The name "Scythers" is derived from the vicious scythe-blades they wield as melee weapons, which are frighteningly effective at dismembering careless colonists that stray too close.

In fact, they have the highest melee DPS of any pawn in game, minus a colonist equipped with dual scyther blades or a Masterwork/Legendary plasteel longsword.

Body Parts (Summary)

Scythers, again, are practically humans in biology, although they lack many of the human organs and bones.

Body Part Name	Health (×1.5 Health Scale)	Base Health	Quantity	Coverage (per part)	Group	Function / Required for following System	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Mechanical Thorax	40	40	1	?	Core part	Functioning in general	Machine failure
Mechanical Neck	30	30	1	8.0%	Top of Thorax	Communication (vocal), connector of thorax and head	Machine failure
Mechanical Head	30	30	1	75%	Neck	Houses Artificial Brain, Sensors	Machine failure
Artificial Brain	30	30	1	15%	Head	Dataprocessing	Machine failure
Sight Sensor	10	10	2	15%	Head	Sight	Loss of sight/Blindness
Hearing Sensor	10	10	2	5.0%	Head	Hearing	Loss of hearing/Deafness
Smell Sensor	10	10	1	10%	Head	-	-
Arm	30	30	2	10%	Thorax	Manipulation	Loss of manipulation ability/Unable to work (if both lost)
Hand	20	20	2	20%	Arm	Manipulation	Loss of manipulation ability
Fingers	7	7	10	5.0%	Hand	Manipulation	Loss of manipulation ability (minor)
Leg	30	30	2	10%	Thorax	Moving	Unable to move
Foot	20	20	2	20%	Leg	Moving	Loss of moving ability
Toes	10	10	10	5.0%	Foot	Moving	Loss of moving ability (minor)

Body Parts (Detailed)

Modification bills are performed by colonists assigned to Crafting.

Artificial Brain

Required for overall function and function of any Mechanoid. Without this, a Mechanoid is simply an empty husk of mechanical parts. Can be deactivated if incapacitated, causes same effect as euthanizing

Blades

Colonists set as constructors can remove these (add a bill in the Health, Modifications tab) from downed but not dead scythers, so long as it hasn't been damaged during combat.

Body Rings

Everything is built off of the Centipede's first body ring - the head, and second body ring are connected to the first ring, while the rest of the rings chain off from there (second ring connected to third, third connected to fourth, etc.).

Body rings enable the Centipede to move and work, as there are many tiny, tiny legs that are connected to the body rings (not listed under body parts).

Sensors

Sight sensors for seeing, hearing sensors for hearing, and smell sensors for smell.

It's worth noting that smell is not yet implemented in the game, so destroying a smelling sensor doesn't harm a Mechanoid overall since they do not feel pain.

Trivia

• Although all mechanoid-only weapons are 'Spacer' in terms of tech level; the hidden mechanoid faction itself is actually 'Ultra' tech level - one above spacer, and the second highest tech level in the game, below 'Transcendent'.