What’s New in RimWorld Biotech and Is the DLC Worth It

On October 21, 2022, Ludeon Studios released new downloadable content for RimWorld to further expand your experience with this colony-building simulator game.

For this new downloadable content, you will get a whole new experience in growing your colony because of the added features. Plus, there also have been some modifications to the UI, options, settings, and overlay to make your gaming experience better.

To give you an idea of what new features await you, we made this brief guide to tell you everything you have to expect from the game’s new DLC.

What’s New in RimWorld: Biotech?

You already know that the main objective of the game is to grow the colony and ensure the survival of the people. However, in this DLC, you will not just deal with yourself and other people, but with more closely related characters.

In this DLC, you will experience being the head of the family. This will make your game more dynamic and fun.

Having Children

Believe it or not, you can start your own family in RimWord: Biotech. You can choose to conceive a child via natural means or artificial means. You just have to wait a bit until the baby is born, and you will experience the hardships of nursing a baby.

It will also need proper shelter, a crib, toys, and lots of milk.

Now, you might be wondering why you have to grow a child. The reason is to produce other colonists and become workers.

Growing Children

Children in this world grow fast, but you can still choose to expedite this by using a growth vat. Once the children become old enough to learn, you must also give them proper education. Just like in the real world, children who had proper education will also get more opportunities.

When we say opportunities, this refers to the choices of traits that you can pick from.

Every few years, you will get to modify the personality, passion, and traits of your children. Once a particular child had an access to better education, you will have more choices to improve.

However, if you accelerated the growth of a child using a growth vat, you will not be able to modify its personality and it will automatically grow as a future soldier.

The Mechanitor

This machine allows you to grow your own and new mechanoids in pods. Your colonists can be mechanoids by using a mechlink.

An example of mechanoids that you can create is the military. Although they are small and weak, you can still make a lot of them with shotguns as their weapon.

The Scorcher

Another bad boy in Biotech DLC is the scorcher. It is a machine that wields a flame thrower that can easily defeat enemies and inflict damage in an area of effect.

The Legionary

Legionaries are the bots that have bubble shields and long-ranged needle guns which make good support in inflicting damage.

The Tesseron

Done with the fire thrower, time for the gamma-ray attacks. These tesserons emit a gamma ray that can pierce through the shields of enemies.

The Centurion

These heavy-duty mechs are called the centurions. They are good for both defense and offense as they have a built-in bubble shield generator and point-defense bulb turret.

Another good thing about this is that it can fire while moving.

Super Boss Units

Of course, the world, and the universe will not let you become the most powerful and have control over mechanoids. That is why there are also the super boss units.

These are strong and powerful bosses who each have their distinct and unique powers. These are the Diabolus, War Queen, and Epocrion.

Gene Mods

What’s even more exciting is that you can modify your human pawns. You can do this by having gene packs first. Gene packs can be obtained from Quest Traders.

Once you already have enough gene packs, you can combine these to make a gene organ that you want to implant in the human pawn.

There is a wide variety of gene organs that you can choose from which is more than 200 genes. Each one of them has a unique characteristic that can be added to the human. For example, immunity to food poisoning, not needing to sleep, etc.

If you would analyze the whole new DLC, you can say that having this is worth it. Not just from the fact that it became more dynamic, but because you can add some personal touch to the game because of the modifications that you can do.