Rimworld Devourers Explained: Tips & Tactics

Learn all you need to know about Rimworld's Devourers, a monstrous entity from the Anomaly DLC that is capable of swallowing a pawn whole! #rimworld #rimworldanomaly #petecomplete

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.

[grimtygranule]

Devourer: "Yummy colonist"
Psycaster: *casts spell of immense nausea*
Devourer: *cries*

[Squirrelthing]

They also can't eat things that are too large, so tunneler mechs can melee block a chokepoint if the colonists have long-enough range weapons at hand, or so I've heard.

[not-powder]

little timmy that I was going to harvest his organ: "what is my purpose?"
colonists: "you will be devoured by a Devourer"

[Judaz]

I love soo much how you narrate rimworld as a kind of animal planet, this give the game a layer extra of baauty

[dimoniysh]

i certantly do not envy pawns named "bait"

[elusivecrawfishy]

from my experience, in melee they can’t swallow a pawn whole. they can only swallow something while lunging. if you have melee pawns with jump packs, you can handle devourer attacks a lot easier if you aren’t using killboxes

[killerofdisco]

I really like these shorts, Pete. Please keep up the great work.

[pacopajas]

i remember se a horde of 36 of this boys and they are no joke, probally the hardest horde of the game.

[hideshisface]

They are surprisingly dangerous.
When you first look at them, they are not so bad - slow, large, rather easy to hit. They are not well armoured or anything like that.
If you have a bunch of monstrously good shooters, they don't even seem like a threat.
And then they jump some poor isolated sod, and you suddenly have one less colonist before you know it.
They are a bane of isolated guys and small groups.

[unknownmusicguy]

I never notice how the devourers goes :3 after swallowing someone

[StreiterAdanos]

Accidentally found a niche use, but hard counter, which saved my doomed colony from 17 devours (despite savescumming):
If your colony has large animals (I had 2 Thrumbos 2 Megasloths from tamer inspirations), they can't be swallowed. If your pawns are NOT in line of sight (hiding around the corner) the devourers will have nowhere to jump and get stuck in regular melee, which they aren't very good at, it seems.
I then used a bait pawn to have a single devour jump through the choke point at a time into the line of sight of every shooter. In the end, the worst (and only permanent) injury my colony sustained was a stray bullet permanently damaging a megasloth brain. Thrumbos barely cared.

[kman]

Coppermind is a kick-ass name for machine

[Cleaverbomb]

a good defense is a choke point and fire? In rimworld?
no way.

[RoulicisThe]

Since they can't swallow targets larger than humans, tamed animals work surprisingly well in keeping them at bay, especially large ones like bears.

[leoleonid]

Once i was attacked by Devourer.
I've sent out my vampire with a ranged weapon, thinking that i'll just leap away when it gets close.

And then it lunged.

[havenaviaryhaeviary]

Love these informative shorts!!!! Much appreciated!!!!

[claykalmar]

I saw what you did with the pawn names at the end there, very clever!

[doge_fish]

Any stun makes them release their target, the beckon psycast will also cause them to drop their target.

[dejannincic]

I remember the first time i saw devourers, they spawned from a river right in front of all my defences poor bastards didnt last long

[BenjayTay]

I've like and subscribed. I've yet to find the "Bait" button... oh wait..