Rimworld Noctoliths & Noctols Explained: Tips & Tactics

Learn all you need to know about Rimworld's Noctoliths, jagged black pillars that bring about an Unnatural Darkness, and Noctols, fast-moving entities that appear as part of this event from the Anomaly DLC.
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With the Rimworld Anomaly DLC, we see a psychological horror theme added to Rimworld in what is arguably the most unique of the Rimworld expansions. A strange monolith is found on the map and things can soon devolve as horrifying entities appear and threaten the colony in ways never experienced before. In addition, Rimworld Anomaly also adds ways to contain these entities, dark new psychic rituals and a new ending to Rimworld.

Rimworld is a Sci-Fi colony builder simulation game focused on managing a small group of survivors with the goal of eventually building a space ship to escape the planet. Rimworld is developed and published by Ludeon Studios. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the game went through several Alpha and Beta versions before seeing the release of the Rimworld 1.0 version in October 2018. This playthrough uses Rimworld 1.5, the latest update to the game.

[maybe]

"Do you see that thing in the pitch black darkness, private?"

"NO, SIR!"

"Good. Good... BLAST IT!"

"YES, SIR!"

[icraft]

That one player who now found a purpose for his 500 mortars:
"Colonist, do you see that noctolith in that pitch blackness?"
"Yes, sir!"
"I don't like it."
"Got it, sir! Removing pitch blackness!"

[JoshSweetvale]

Me with 8 mortars:

"Nah bruv, I'm just gonna *CARPET BOMB* it!" :D

[Crackheadcentral]

“An unnatural darkness descends upon the colony and-“

Me: “Darkness? HANS! HANS GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER!”

[cameronwallace]

I am very afraid to attune past the first stage. But I got a solid limestone base down with the first mechonoid boss killed. So I think I will after I fully researched the signal chip it comes with

[pennxl]

So Charlie from don’t starve attacks your pawns?

[ChucktheSpicyChicken]

Not sure if they updated it. But the light coming out of Noctolith weakens Noctos, too. It's like a fish that can't stay in water for too long.

[nods]

It was a blast to clear those things in a Game End event with my two Vampires, leapang over huge darkness oceans, while other pawns are restlessly defending the base from upcoming noctols and shamblers. Best DLC ending so far

[alexv]

Me encanta sus shorts.hasta ahora no eh pillado canales de youtube que describan que hacen cada anomalia😢, sigue asi

[Armagedoen]

I'm on a medieval only, heavily modded playtrough for my first time with aberration. A lot of the mods I liked were stuck in 1.4 so I had to remake my mod this for this one. Anyway, going in blind I had no idea what aberration was about. Tribal start, meaning I have pretty much nothing but a cave entrance, mad goes dark af. OK it's like a worse eclipse I thought. Then everything goes pitch black, my colonists start dieing and I can not see anything. Glad I found out the NICE way how aberration can be terryfying

[TH_N]

Fun fact: a pawn can get attacked while inside a door, so even while staying inside pawns can get attacked.

[Cajaquarius]

This event is useful. I ended up doing the space ship ending for the second time by letting the darkness kill every raid that came in. The dark beasts are fragile as hell in light and by then I had hydroponics and no need of a sun.

[MenixOfficial]

Im thiiiis close 🤏 to buying the DLC every time I see your shorts

love the videos! :)

[hideshisface]

Noctoliths are honestly one of the creepiest anomalies.

Still, this anomaly is basically a test of lighting of your base and you ability to manage restricted zones and pathing.

Now, considering that unnatural darkness is fairly lengthy... destroying the noctoliths is probably the best option here.

If you intend to survive without light - make sure you have either stockpiled food or solar lamps AND enough non-solar power to go on.

Noctols are not exactly that much of a problem, considering their weakness in light.

[picklepic]

Room remote slowly turning into don’t starve

[sapphiredawn]

So its kind of like night from don't strave but you can fight back

[michaelrichards]

I actually survived this damn event, had no mortar and my elaborate light a path to it while we heal from being damaged in the dark then heal up took too damn long 😂

[kandiaru]

К ним очень удобно ходить с огнеметом потому, что огонь тоже светит

[sandpiper]

This is the only time I used Solar breach yet

[helldog]

What was that explosion? Is it from vanilla?