Rimworld Golden Cube Explained: Tips & Tactics

Learn all you need to know about Rimworld's Golden Cube, the iconic event from the Anomaly DLC that seems harmless but can quickly render an entire colony obsessed! #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.

[jamesharding]

The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that the Weighted Companion Cube cannot talk. In the event that it does talk The Enrichment Centre asks you to ignore its advice.

[ThatDMan]

My favorite social fight happened because of the cube obsession. "Francine compared Bill to a sphere. This drove Bill into a rage-"

[SickoFromHell]

One addition is that pawn on a caravan will simply abandon your colony when you destroy the cube

[rory]

Remember: to deal with obsessed pawns going berserk when destroying the cube, put them all to sleep (anaesthesia) before destruction of the cube

[gehrigmichael]

This is the evil version of the tungsten cube

[cirgo]

“What did you bring to show and tell, Timmy?”
“THE CUBE!”

[hideshisface]

Golden cube is honestly not that threatening IF you don't slack on researching it.
If you do, it spirals out of control and basically makes the whole colony pretty much impossible to work with.

One thing - when you are ready to disable the cube - put all obsessed pawns into a medical coma. If they are subdued this way when the cube is destroyed, they will suffer no breakdown whatsoever.

Also - if an affected pawn is in the caravan when the cube is destroyed, they will leave the colony - so watch out for that.

[CanisAnubis]

One of the best ways to deal with cube obsession is right before you're going to destroy it, to anesthetize all affected pawns, and put them in the hospital to sleep it off, once all of them are under, then destroy it. They'll wake up in a day and they won't be in a rage berserk and your cube will be gone.

[Montylont]

I wouldn't be suprised if you could weaponize this by having a caravan head to an enemy camp, bring the cube either by second caravan or drop pod, (so the first doesn't get obsessed) and keep the map loaded, having the first caravan waiting on the edge of the map. After a while, have a pawn sneak in and steal/deactivate the cube, after that, wait for them to go comatose or finish beating eachother to nutrience paste and finish them off or capture them.

[Peleski]

I gotta say, this is what Shorts are best at, because generally not a lot happens 99% of the time

[thezblah]

if you can research it fast, put the cube on display in the rec room or dining room and it will give massive wealth and beauty bonuses. Also sending the cube to another faction settlement as a gift gives a crapload of reputation because of how valuable it is. You can't sell it though.

[abusr]

I was surprised to see "pawn A discussed with pawn B rectangular cuboid's, and their importance in solving world hunger" or smth in the social log there was a lot of meme discussions, related to cubes and all figures with 4 sides. But to be honest i do belive that the rectangular cuboids can be a great way to stop world hunger, how didnt anyone yet figured that out? Glory to the cube.

[TrekkingTabris]

this is what happens if you resist the urge to play 2 weeks of minecraft each month

[NepoznatYuspeedy]

Put the cube in a caravan and once on the map move just chuck it down somewhere.

[kokbaell]

Resisting the urge to install the latest shiny magic mod onto the cube must be harrowing for the pawns.

[felixtroche]

best way is to instantly throw it (before adiction) in a hostile faction and see them grumble down into cube obsessed children.

[togeprince]

You can anesthetist your colonists before destroying the cube. This will prevent them from going berserk

[Nobodienobodie]

I remember watching you every day many years ago. Having you appear in my shorts and hearing your voice made me audibly swear. Glad to rediscover you

[void-creature]

Just wait until they bring out the TUNGSTEN CUBE, then everyone will really go crazy

[NoNo-xhru]

I kinda want to try a cube worship playthrough.