Rimworld Corrupted Obelisk Explained: Tips & Tactics

Learn all you need to know about Rimworld's Corrupted Obelisk, one of three obelisks from the Anomaly DLC, and this one can clone your colonists - although not without side effects. #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.

[hopemaker]

R.I.P Hare, age 3, survived 5 raids.

[christopherg]

"Crumbling Mind? Duplication Sicknesses?
Have you tried turning your pawn off and on again?"

[Life_Universe_Everything]

Once my pawn’s wife cheated on him with his clone.

[JoshSweetvale]

Tip: Cybernetic limbs don't get copied, but bio-horror bodyparts DO. This includes the lungs and stomach.

[goose]

This happened to my single colonist playthrough and i figured "Eh, why not? Technically the same person."
Anyways shes called Imita and handles entity research

[diegopugaquintanilla]

Great, my daily dose of eldritch horrors beyond comprehension.

[NoU-jckq]

Wait those obelisks fall down from the sky!? I thought they just manifested and then exploded, didn't think they would just be fancy meteors.

[BlueBeetle]

This wouldve been very helpul on the colony i dedicated to creating supersoldiers out of one guy i had a whole vat warehouse with several generations growing at a time but it was still slow

[Iuwl]

Found out this was pretty handy in cloning an army of helpful ghouls

[lilapy]

I cloned 4 colonists and only got organ decay.

[ccboi]

There's a mod on the workshop that both allows for pawns to be genderswaped when they get cloned, and adds a relationship between the clone and original

[Penguinmanereikel]

Also, if you piss the obelisk off, it can mass clone a single pawn and have them all be hostile

[hideshisface]

This is pretty much a beneficial anomaly.
Unless your colony runs around naked and unarmed, hostile clones aren't even a serious threat.

Once you study this anomaly, you can use it to have an endless supply of pawns - it is useful both in situation when you have some very good pawns for obvious reasons, but even situations when you don't - more pawns = more work done, unless your pawn have very bad traits.

One thing to note - hostile pawn are not permanently hostile - they are not berserk - they can be captured and convinced to join you.

Various duplication sicknesses can also be fixed by death refusal ritual.

[Laxelotl.l]

the hare dying got me and it wasn't even intentional lol

[syffro]

The beat is going hard, definitely one of the best of this album

[FSSmash]

That's the cutest bunny I have ever seen *gets obliterated*

[Ali-ldf]

I believe that you must specifically destroy the head before resurrection when it comes to Crumbling Mind. Otherwise, they will still have the condition.

[calmc]

I had that event before, duplicated one of my mains 8 times fsr. All of them died from the shamblers, didnt want more mouths to feed bc that pawn had an x225% hunger xenotype

[annpyingshek]

I wish other pawns reacted to clones somehow. It's just weird seeing them acting like nothing happened instead of getting mood debuffs, opinion debuffs or outright trying to kill them.

[AndGoatz]

Notice:
They lack cybernetics.
Meaning *_DO NOT CLONE YOUR CYBORG WITH A ROBO HEART_*