Rimworld Unnatural Corpse Explained: Tips & Tactics

Learn all you need to know about Rimworld's Unnatural Corpse, a potentially lethal threat from the Anomaly DLC that can easily be avoided if you simply study it regularly. #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.

[BulborbStan]

I had no idea that the corpse gets up when I first encountered this. I even let the corpse "sleep" in the original colonist's room for laughs. It went as well as you'd expect.

[rileymiller]

That one pawn with the zero psychic sensitivity: what are you trying to do?
Suspicious corpse: why isn't this working?

[hdhsu-dgfb]

itd be cool if it replaced your colonist. like if you dont look at the two of them for a bit your colonist disappears and the unnatural corpse becomes the new colonist

[ReRoji]

I just put it in the storage room WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WAKES UP

[Zaire]

Had this one time where, unfortunately for it, it copied a colonist that was genetically paralysed. I didn't know what it did, so I left it be and when it woke up I just had my fighters kick it's ass until it died.

[hideshisface]

Unnatural corpse is fairly unnerving, I'll give it that.

But honestly, it is mostly a "do I have pawns good enough to do research" check. Unless you are slacking off, it poses very little actual threat.

Now... if you let it rise... well, unless you have a massive damage dealing potential, you can kiss your pawn goodbye.

[Thermite_Eater]

I love playing with Save Our Ship 2 and yeeting anomalies into my nuclear thrusters.

[Leftyyer]

The first time I saw the corpse I simply put it in my freezer, because I had already dismembered it before and it made the original fall, which happened the same day he woke up, I had the game paused and when I realized the corpse was walking towards the infirmary, and there was only the original stunned there, instantly I sent all the colonists there, and when he was focused on the original, I ordered one to carry him while he ran to the room through the barricade that the colonists were setting up, it took a while and I thought there was no salvation, but after a while I managed to eliminate him with the original and the colonist who was carrying few injuries, scared? Scared.

[kotzpenner]

This thing freaked me out so much without prior knowledge

[brandonpowell]

Psychic slaughter or a band of ghouls and gunners 'can' take it out. Untested the former, but miraculously succeeded with the latter. It almost crashed the game as well. It was unresponding for a short while.

[mrShift_]

oh.... i never knew it wakes up if you leave it i... just used it as a free meal/toy for the ghouls... its called "find where the body went and then you can eat it", theyliked that game really well, especially in long winter when raider xorpses were scarce.

[rockcaster]

it also teleports to the map the pawn is copying its.
So be careful while travelling as you can accidentally bring the corpse with you to another map

[Rebonell]

vanilla psycast expanded: *"so anyways, i started to mind break."*

[ruennnalakuvera]

my pawn keep busy with this corpse and ignore his construction job... very annoying corpse, indeed.

[Realzargos]

you can kill it.. it will only focus on the pawn... the best way is block the teleportation and use melle, if the wall breaks then is the end, nothing will stop it

[kOfTheQ]

It gets stunned by flares, giving you enough time to gun it down if you have the firepower.

[ami]

Okay this was much worse than I initially thought

[rory]

I have never gotten the corpse to the awakening bit, I always dealt with it before that

[Clipdump]

I feel like it would have been a good idea for it to replace the original colonist and cause havoc, like fires, Infecting other colonists, and freeing entities if you have some contained, it could have been so much more fleshed out

[tea]

I didn’t know you made shorts but I’ve been getting them lately and I’m loving them!! Reminds me of back in the day when I used to binge watch cambiar on the ice sheet :) hope you’re doing well Pete