RimWorld – Ideology (PC) – Steam Key – GLOBAL

Ideology Expansion Overview

With the Ideology expansion, each person in the game gets a belief system. Belief systems define social roles for leaders, moral guides, and skill specialists. They invoke rituals from gentle festivals to brutal sacrifices, guiding preferences around food, comfort, love, technology, and violence. They venerate specific animals, desire different apparel and tattoos, and provide access to various buildings and strategies.

Customization and Storytelling

Everything is customizable. Create your own story of:

• Pirate nudist cannibals
• Blind undergrounder mole people
• Charitable ranching cowboys
• Machine-obsessed transhumanists
• Rustic peaceful tribes linked with curious tree creatures

You can build mind-bending temples with colorful drug motifs, terrifying sacrificial altars clad in skulls, winding mazes of underground tunnels full of technology, or beautiful orchards with drifting leaves.

Rituals and Quests

Hold unforgettable rituals such as:

• Sick dance parties with pounding music
• Bountiful feasts of human flesh
• Beautiful skylantern festivals
• Ceremonial blindings
• Christmas festivities around the tree
• Vicious gladiator duels

As you grow powerful, hunt for the venerated relics of your belief system in new multi-part quests. Penetrate ancient complexes full of diverse threats, infiltrate wary tribal villages, and hack downed spacedrones while holding off other treasure-hunters. Find the relic in its ancient temple and bring it back to your reliquary to attract wealthy pilgrims to your colony and help you convert even more people to your beliefs.

Belief System Structure

Each belief system is built around a collection of 1-4 core memes, where each meme represents a core idea in the belief system. By combining memes and changing the details of their expression, you can create a near-infinite variety of different belief systems. The memes include:

• Animal personhood: Animals have rights as humans do.
• Rancher: Raising animals is the right way; raising plants to eat is not.
• Pain is virtue: Virtue is shown through the suffering of self and others.
• Darkness: Bright light burns and destroys! Darkness nourishes and creates.
• Tunneler: Humans ought to live underground, enjoying the succulent fruit of the depths.
• Tree connection: Trees are the essence of life, and we must be near them.
• Nudism: Clothing binds, controls, and suffocates us.
• Blindsight: Only the blind can perceive true reality.
• Cannibal: We must consume human flesh.
• Transhumanist: Human progress means merging with technology.
• Flesh purity: The human body should not be debased.
• Raider: The strong should take from the weak.
• Proselytizer: It is our duty to spread our beliefs.
• High life: Exotic states of mind are central to a good life.
• Nature primacy: Man is a stain on nature’s perfection.
• Human primacy: Humans are the moral center of the universe.
• Female supremacy: Women are the superior gender and should rule.
• Male supremacy: Men are the superior gender and should rule.
• Supremacist: Our people should dominate all others.
• Loyalist: We stand for our own before others.
• Guilty: Our people carry guilt from ages past.
• Individualist: A community’s role is to serve each individual.
• Collectivist: A person’s role is to serve the community.

Precepts and Behavior

Each meme can give rise to a variety of different precepts, which are specific rules or guidelines affecting behaviors or preferences. Examples of precepts include:

• Eating nutrient paste: This meal can be seen as disgusting or efficient.
• Cannibalism: Some believers find eating human flesh abhorrent, others are unbothered, and some hunger for it.
• Insect meat: The slimy flesh of insects can be gross or delectable.
• Fungus eating: Mushy fungus food is preferred by some and hated by others.
• Execution: This act is potentially evil beyond measure, necessary, and even enjoyed.

Social Roles and Rituals

Each belief system defines special roles that believers can take on:

• Leader: Gives inspirational speeches, buffs combat allies, encourages harder work, and plays a special role in rituals.
• Moral Guide: Supports mental well-being, leads rituals, and converts non-believers.
• Specialist: Gains better effectiveness at one primary skill and a special ability related to that skill.

Unique Rituals

Belief systems define a collection of unique rituals that have various impacts depending on their execution. Examples include:

• Dance party: Participants dance to music from giant speakers.
• Drum party: Drummers create music as others dance.
• Social festivals: The leader gives a speech, and people gather to drink and socialize.
• Tree celebration: A social festival around a decorated tree.
• Burn circle: A moral leader gives a speech, and the people burn a hated symbol.

New Buildings and Aesthetic Styles

Belief systems unlock new buildings to support rituals, such as:

• Altar: Traditional platforms used in rituals.
• Ideogram: Arcane symbols on the floor for rituals.
• Lectern: A slanted stand for formal rituals.
• Pew: Simple benches for listeners during rituals.

Each belief system is associated with different aesthetic styles that affect the look of rituals, furniture, apparel, and art. Styles include:

• Rustic
• Totemic
• Spikecore
• Morbid
• Techist
• Animalist
• Hindu
• Christian
• Islamic
• Buddhist

Conclusion

Ideology makes your story into your story more than ever before, offering a rich tapestry of customization, quests, and social dynamics that will shape your colony’s journey.