

Using a tailor bench, craft cowboy hats and dusters as soon as you can from leather, and later on once you have a good supply of food, from cotton you have planted.This is the reason wood needs to conserved since a heatwave can easily wipe out your entire colony. If there is a heatwave build passive coolers.At the beginning feed your colonists raw food until you research electricity.Try to use steel that can be found on the map instead of the starter wood. Only build essential production benches such as a stonecutting bench and a butchering bench.Immediately start growing rice at the beginning.Starter animals can also be a source of food.

Harvest any agave and other resources on the map. Hunt everything on the map and build a butchers table.


It is not recommended to pick flat maps near the sea since they have less area available for building and the water cannot be used for fishing. There may also be some Megascarab on the map which while slow, can cause a lot of damage to your colonists so it is important to take care of them early on. Foxes are the only threat present when hunting. Flat maps will have more animals like Dromedaries, Fennel foxes and Iguanas.This means it is possible to centralize your colony on a flat map while on a high altitude map your growers will have to travel further. Flat maps will have growing zones scattered on the map randomly while high altitude maps will mostly have growing areas at the foot of the mountains.The main two options are flat maps and hilly/mountainous maps. It is important to consider the terrain of your extreme desert. Although in normal deserts there are still small parches of arable land, in an extreme desert there are only gravel patches available to farm on. In an extreme desert plants are scarce and there is a lack of fertile soil to grow plants in. Temperatures can be high enough to cause heatstroke for colonists that are not dressed for hot weather. This guide details how to survive in one of the most hostile environments in Rimworld - an extreme desert.Įxtreme deserts are even hotter than a regular desert.
