Summary
- Use Grav Anchor to preserve your colony when using gravships, preventing permanent destruction of your base.
- Requires 300 Plasteel, 5 Advanced Components, and 80 Gravite Panels, which are earned through quests, trading, and exploration.
- Losing your anchor means losing your ability to return home, so make sure to add it to your colony’s defensive strategy.
RimWorld Odyssey introduces the Grav Anchor as one of the crucial structures in maintaining your permanent colony. The sci-fi building colony sim uses Grav Anchor to keep your colony when using Gravship exploration. Here’s a detailed beginner’s guide on how to get and use the Rimworld Grav Anchor.
What is a Grav Anchor and Why Do You Need It?
The new DLC RimWorld Odyssey introduces gravships, which allow players to explore space, engage in rare quests, and fight a mechanoid hive. Now, this special structure helps you preserve your colony when launching a gravship. With Grav Anchor, you can launch a gravship to explore Rimworld without worrying about your colony.
Moreover, launching without one deletes your current map and permanently loses any pawns or structures not on the gravship substructure. It acts more as your safety net, allowing you to adopt a mixed playstyle. It can establish your ground base as you explore the space with the gravship feature.
It is very essential for players who want to spam the gravship exploration option, preventing them from going back to zero. Without the Grav Anchor, you’ll have to abandon everything each time you launch a gravship.
Research Requirements and Tech Tree Position
You can see the Grav Anchor positioned quite late in the research tree, serving as an interesting challenge to players. You will need to research thoroughly the Microelectronics technology, which comes before the Multianalyzer in the tech progression. With this, you won’t need to reach the endgame to build yourself a Grav Anchor.
All you need is to invest significant research time to gain access to this structure. If you start with a normal colony scenario instead, you’ll likely need to build up and potentially abandon a very capable base. It is the only way you can construct a basic gravship with anchor protection.
What You Need To Build Grav Anchor
Grav Anchor will require you to gather necessary resources throughout your RimWorld gameplay. You need 300 Plasteel alongside 5 Advanced Components as the base requirement for it. In addition, you will have to provide 80 Gravite Panels, which you can scavenge from quests.
Luckily, you may purchase the Advanced Components from traders to make the Grav Anchor construction earlier. Meanwhile, you may search the ruins on orbital stations for dangerous ancient sites during quests for Gravite Panels. Another option is through research after unlocking Advanced Grav Tech, however, it is rare to get one.
You have to start collecting Grav Anchor materials while exploring and completing the quests. It will make the process feel more integrated into the natural gameplay progression.
Where To Place Grav Anchor in RimWorld
After gathering all the materials, choose where to place your Grav Anchor. You have to position it strategically within your colony to maximize its functionality and defense. Losing your anchor also means losing the ability to return to your base.
Your top priority should be protecting it from raids that may come. So, place it in a well-defended area of your colony, making it hard to reach from enemies. Make sure there are multiple layers of protection to safeguard this anchor of yours.
Moreover, some players worry that raiders specifically target the anchor during the raid. To prevent such a situation, surround it with strong walls alongside building redundant defenses around the anchor area.
How Starting Scenario Affects Gameplay
There are two differing outcomes in using the Grav Anchor in RimWorld depending on your starting scenario. A gravship head start gives you an engine and small thrusters with some Gravite Panels. However, there will be mechanoids chasing you every few days to force you to constantly move.
Meanwhile, players concerned with late-game research requirements can choose to add a Grav Anchor to their starting equipment. Through scenario editor, they can bypass the early game resource gathering phase if they prefer to focus on exploration.
Conclusion
RimWorld Odyssey launched a thrilling but challenging content with the introduction of Grav Anchor to Gravship exploration. It considers many things, including the early game starting scenario, down to the research progress path. Every quest will be a hunt for the required materials to secure your colony permanently, even after the exploration.
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