+200 Questionable ways to torture your colonists (Ongoing)

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Disclaimer

The nature of this guide is completely at random. Several of these ways can be done in Rimworld in vanilla or with certain mods, other ways are simply made-up scenarios. If something is real, it's all a coincidence.

Feel free to suggest more in the comments section!

Don't get inspired to harass anyone in Internet and in real life because of this guide. I made this guide for fun and nothing else. Don't treat this as an instruction manual.

1-100 Ways to torture

Make a Sanguophage and a human have a baby and put the baby in the Draincasket to extract hemogen indefinitely.
Make a pawn study hard in school and don't offer him a job when he's an adult.
Make animals eat your plants just before it's time to harvest.
Disable all the cleaning slots in the Jobs tab.
Name your Rimworld-addicted friend "rimmaxxer worldpilled" instead of his nickname.
As a tribe, sacrifice a baby for a better harvest.
As modern colony, sacrifice a baby to avoid a bother.
Name your ideoligion BDSM (Business Development Sales and Marketing).
Make a mod to replicate the AAA experience into Rimworld.
With a size of 299 GB.
With a Ludeon Account a requirement to play.
With a Season Pass with rewards that rotate each 60 days.
With microtransactions of 2 and 3 digits each item.
With Marvel crossover events and exclusive skins.
With Lobby Waiting included.
Have conversations with your co-worker about Rimworld easily taken out of context in the workplace.
Make your ideoligion have the divorce prohibited and have a woman married to a serial killer.
Make a pawn commit suicide because tomorrow is Monday.
Start a Crashlanded scenario with children exclusively because that builds character.
Change the schedule so young men wake up at 11 AM (11h) so the boomers can call them "sleeping beauty".
Crash a meteorite into someone who just got an inspiration.
Name your dog "dog".
Wait for an artist to finish a statue and send someone to destroy it, claiming that it is a DMCA demand.
Have a mod that continually inflates the prize on everything.
Stream your Rimworld game and adjust the colors until everything is green because "you like it that way".
Name your pawns "disposable".
Contratulate the persons who are in the same thread as you in the forums.
Lock a prisoner without doors and force him to eat his own waste.
Make someone equip a bunch of grenades and throw those onto the most expensive items in your colony.
Bonus points if it's with a flamethrower.
Stick anti-theft chips into all the apparel of your colony.
Make a Sanguophage and make him say something such as "I AM A GOD AND I WILL TAKE OVER THIS WORLD!"
Hide flares in a birthday cake.
Or better yet, rockets.
Make a pawn become a modder and have him filled with false logs.
When a tribe attacks you with a few weak grunts and cheap weapons, launch a nuclear attack on their base.
Make appointments for the 16th Aprimay.
Place a disobedient naked slave in a pod launcher and send him to the sea ice.
Bonus points if it's in the ocean.
Finish all your pawns' bios with "as the prophecy says".
REWRITE YOUR PAWNS' NAMES IN ALL CAPS LOCK.
Make a pawn write the surprising ending in the Part 1 of a walkthrough.
Make your pawns learn Morse Code.
While driving a vehicle, turn on the hazard lights for 70 miles (112 kilometers).
Buy a 4 year old slave and then kill him in front of the trader's eyes.
Make everyone in your colony schizophrenic and tell them that the rest are fragments of their imaginations.
Refuse to be controlled by a calendar and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Make everyone speak using diminutives.
Make a ritual for everyone to fight for the title of "Cream Boy".
Restrict all your animals to indoors locations because of climate change.
Make a really good mod and release it for the 0.14 version.
Put toilets in the dining room.
Install a xenogerm with thundermaker gene in one of your colonists.
Buy several resurrectors and use them on a prisoner used for a subcore ripscanner.
Tax your colonists more each year to build roads and help grandma.
Make a xenotype that is exclusively female, ageless, extremely fertile, with extremely fast pregnancy with multiple pregnancies.
Make a xenotype that is alcoholic and vomits rats frequently.
Change save slots every 10 seconds.
Enable the Always Social Fight in developer mode.
Make a mod that replaces every face with the youtubers' reaction face™.
Make a pawn criticize all ideoligions and when he gets criticized make him say "I'm just a centrist".
Put the same music 500 times while you're playing.
Make a pawn interrogate another pawn and make him ask "what content are you most proud of".
Make a colony with an ideoligion respecting inclusivity and diversity which only allows women in it.
Make a colony with kids in a moon and disable the oxygen generator.
Release Rimworld in Switch 2 for 90 bucks. (base game)
Send several tons of irrevelant screenshots to the community.
Make an extremely impressive colony and claim it's made with AI.
In a numerous colony, have everyone make children out of wedlock.
Say random numbers when someone is making calculations.
Investigate why insectoids are naturally hostile.
As a mechanitor, have a powerful base and army. When a trader comes, send your mechanoids to kill all of them because you disagree with their politics.
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Write an article with the title "think twice before sharing your email" with journalistic integrity and make a mod that requests others' emails.
Write a colonist's bio and prolong irrevelant and useless facts to make it longer.
Invent an ideoligion that focuses in appeasing the shareholder/s and making life hell for the rest of colonists.
Play Rimworld at 1 AM with loud volume and have a shooting. When neighbors complain, say "it's a benchmark to test my PC".
Pick a car, drive around the colony, and park.
Tell a story in the forums and "forget" the climatic ending, assure the readers that "it was really good".
Make a mod that replaces all music with one and put Macarena.
Bark sometimes with a high-pitched voice.
Blame your prisoners for all your personal problems and kill them.
Kill all the other factions because your gaming chair won't stop squeaking.
Build a maternity room right next to the anomaly chambers.
Raid a tribal settlement and kidnap all the children and babies.
Feed exclusively kibble to the prisoners and slaves.
Make a pawn have a hobby that's worse than his job.
Don't build tables and chairs under any circumstances.
Have a harem of one man with many multiple women in order to study anatomy.
Sacrifice one bonded animal each fifth day.
Cultivate lots of tinctoria and use them to paint everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) in red.(at #FF0000)
Take care of a child for years and when he's an adult erase his memories.
When desperate refugees arrive to your base for shelter arrest them.
Emulate the life of Crusader Kings 2 with the royal people from the Empire.
Kill two grandchildren for nothing.
Force all pawns to call your favorite colonist "The Conquistador".
Maximise the logs, write on them, and tell your mother that you're a hacker.
Reorient the furniture of your house to prepare for "the great earthquake".
Make all pawns ask each other if they used deodorants today.
Make your pawns take off their shoes to place them in the freezing room.

101-200 Ways to torture

Make random calls to every other faction to tell them that you kidnapped their daughters.
Rename your colonists' names in binary.
Rename your colonists' names in hexadecimal.
Spam the words "horn of abundance" in the forums.
Make your pawns wear caps and make them say "wassap my duuudes" endlessly.
Say you thought Randy Random was a woman until not long ago.
Make a pawn drink 100 bottles of soda to launch a super-burp.
Genetically modify a pawn to make him resurrect immediately and keep killing him.
Build everything with human leather for aesthetic reasons.
Enable the forbidden mod.
Make a mod that adds the WEF and force everyone to eat insects for climate change.
Make a multi-ideoligion colony and insert an atheist in the dining room.
Use a doctor to make a child addicted to smokeleaf.
Even worse, addicted to opium.
Make a couch made of human leather. If a guest is creeped out, respond "don't worry, it's limited edition".
Make a pawn pick all the lavish meals for himself because "someone else may take these from them".
Say "food go to waste as we speak" constantly.
Build phallic-shaped buildings in a womens only colony.
Burn components.
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Put expensive fines in a colony for everything.
Figure out how long your pawns will hold on while you force a diet with raw twisted meat.
Put superglue in the chairs for your undesirable pawns.
Build useless stuff with silver.
Make a child pilot a gravtech to land on an asteroid in orbit. Let's see how long they'll survive.
Make an emo colony.
Whenever two pawns have a conversation, make one of them respond "yes, I like oranges".
Make a pawn have a mental break and make them yell at everyone "no, there is no possible way for me to eat human meat! is this how you spend the day, thinking of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like this?!"
Force your colony to eat kibble.
Make illegal genetic experiments on your pawns, when they ask why, reply with "trust the science"
Reorder your mods randomly and start a colony.
Demand a lawyer whenever insignificant things happen
At 3h, make one pawn scream like Tarzan
Name your settlement 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104
Do several warcrimes and declare "I haven't done anything, I'm literally innocent"
Whenever someone's vomiting endlessly, administer alcoholic drinks on them
Multiple times
Make a pawn become a youtuber and make a youtuber apology
Make a netflix tv show based on your experiences in Rimworld
Force everyone participating in a lottery when winning is discreetly impossible
Make a mod where notification sounds are the USB disconnected sound from Windows 10
Force everyone to live in a gravship in space with no doors
Bonus points if you make their lives so miserable. What are they gonna do, run away?
Hide the oxygen canisters in the farthest place
Make your pawns say "over" whenever they're speaking
Plant and grow mushrooms exclusively
Mushroom
Muchroom
Meet with your factions to make warcrimes together, pretend you're sick and they can go on their own, and call the space police about their doings
Recruit a fat pawn, and whenever there's a hygienic mess point the fat pawn
Force your pawns to be nudists in extreme weather, it's good for the environment
Make a pawn memorize this list
Put liquid nitrogen inside the nutrient paste dispenser
Sell art legally and ilegally
Make a debate with two pawns with one of them pretending to not understand anything
Whenever there's a social fight between two boys, scream "THAT'S MY BOY, HIT'EM IN THE NUTS!"
Make a garden with a sign that says "Do not step on the grass"
Organize a recreational play in that garden
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Enter in a faction with dwarves and say "you're so small you don't have the smallest doubt"
Raid a base and use it as a lovin arena for your harem
Create a xenotype that bleeds chemfuel and make them live in a volcanic biome
If you have numerous prisoners, organize multiple gladiator duels all day every day, until you have no more prisoners
Make an ideoligion named "yass queen"
Create a xenotype that's illegal to criticize
In huge multitudes, make a pawn say "who touched my butt?"
Create a mod that auto-translates everything into gen-alpha words
Make a pawn equip a flamethrower and burn forests
Make a green party and don't clean the post-party mess
Recommend music mods to a Rimworld streamer, when they're playing it say "cool music, did Alistair Lindsay compose that?"
Make a pawn grab a truck and run over to someone to death, he'll get isekai'd out of existence so it's fine
In space, attempt to build a campfire in the vacuum to cook marshmallows
Send this list to all your friends
While streaming rimworld, act as if you were selling something on a home shopping channel
Make a pawn stick silver coins on the floor
Make pawns eat soup with forks
Make pawns greet strangers like if they're childhood friends
If you're using multiple vehicles in a road, make a pawn warn the other vehicle that its fuel deposit is open
Create a serious debate with multi-ideoligion pawns with the following theme: "do you know what chairs are, bro?"
Make a nice cinema room made entirely of human leather
Or dread leather
In the last moments of someone's life, make a pawn say "now he's breathing like darth vader"
Make your ideoligion entirely dependent of using throwable explosives
Bonus points if friendly fire is very involved
Make a mod that adds vomit rain
When you're starting, don't build anything because you are in an eco round
After finally making peace with that rough tribe, ask them if they know about cars
Create an online multiplayer server and manipulate the network so your friends have lag consistently
Make a pawn record videos of gore raids and upload them to the internet
Bonus points if that makes social media sites push for more community guidelines
Bonus points if you make that pawn complain about censorship
Organize caravan and make a "family friendly" marathon around many deserts for a non-existent charity
Build your desert colony based on de_dust2
After raiding a base, kidnap all the women because sharing is caring
Make a pawn fight against a tree
If a pawn complains about the cold, use a flamethrower against them
If a pawn complains about the heat, use a cryogenic weapon against them
Change building plans each 30 real seconds to learn construction skill faster
Restrict your colony's diet to energy drinks only
Call a faction with the comms console and ask how to rent a pizza

201-300 Ways to torture

Make a pawn approach to the pawns building something complicated and make him ask: "Do you know what you're doing?"
Make a pawn infuriate others by responding "so what?" to literally everything
Spawn a lot of golden cubes in the storeroom and let the colony be for a while
Go to an economics forum and ask the dollar equivalent of 1 coin of silver
Make pawns smoke smokeleaf and make them say "slow down, my fps is dropping"
Create an antivirus for the comms console that comes with a virus as a gift
When one pawn says "silence is violence" to another, make the another refuse to say absolutely nothing
Make a mod that recreates football (soccer for the Americans)
Convince your pawns that a ball is a magic instrument that transforms people into happy people
Make your cat smoke cigarettes
Make a xenotype that has the need to dance unnecessarily in trains for their tiktok
Whenever eats a bad apple, make everything black and white
When a pawn is visiting a doctor feeling like dirt, make the doctor say "have you tried defecating?"
Motivate your pawns "it's the help you didn't get that is helping you the most"
Send a pawn who believes in social sciences to milk a cow and milk a bull
Teach a bird to deliver cigarettes to a pawn when they need it
Limit your pawns' diet to ambrosia only
Rename the liquid that powers vehicles to "gas"
Make an ideoligion to make global witch hunts against flirting
Then make an ideoligion to complain that no one is flirting them
Make a realistic story of one man being accepted in a colony filled with goth girls
Make a pawn ask a woman out, when refused, make him write a book named how states are ruined on account of women
Put an invisible pawn between two pawns that are both named duran
When a pawn is having a mental break, suggest them to play tetris because "it helps with PTSD"
Become the publisher for Ludeon and re-price your game to 60 bucks per hour
Make the ideoligion of alcoholism
Make a pawn marry synths, when someone complains call them robophobic
Even better if the synths can have the capacity to bear children
Make a pawn ask what's going on in the middle east while there's a heatwave and a drought in your colony
Bring two bottles of vodka for a couple
Bring three bottles of vodka for a couple and their baby
Whenever there's romance among your pawns, ask them if they're looking for love or financial situations
Make a pawn write to another "we need to talk"
Make a pawn respond "yes we do"
Make a Strigoi work with hydroponics with sun lamps
Simulate the space incident from the movie of Gravity
Establish a camp in a coastal area and name it "the beach episode"
When an old pawn complains about how young people are dependent on technology, disconnect the vitals monitor
Pick some cyclists and turn them towards a car
Make a cat cutely interrupt a pawn's breakfast
Force an extrovert to learn to enjoy spending time alone
Make a github project as a community mod that procedurally generates very creative and demoralizing insults for your pawns
Force your pawns to use youtube instead of newpipe
Customize your pawn to be cute so you (the player) can keep on living
Force your genetically filthy pawn to take a shower today
Call granny to a woman who is biologically 18 but chronologically 3174
Make a pawn throw a grenade to a fireworks show
Make a group of children grow up together, let two decades pass, and kill everyone except one
Make a mod that replaces buildings with red big "ERROR" texts
Make a mod that replaces all bullets with big nuclear bombs
Play Rimworld in a vertical monitor
Force all pawns to smile politely to conceal their mental illnesses
Restrict the schedule for all pawns for 1 hour of recreation, 1 hour of sleep, and 22 hours of work
Steal other factions' corpses from graves and sarcophagi
Force emoticons to become emojis
Write the book by Ted Kaczynski and force your industrial pawns to read it
Create a poster for your rec room titled "it gets worse everyday"
Create problems, create solutions, create problems, create solutions, create problems, create solutions...
Make babies sign for subscription services to keep them alive
Install a touhou clothing mod and force your panws do cosplay
Assemble a D11 with steel plates
Make a pawn with good stats fight alone against an entire base while you put the music of free bird
Recruit a lawyer and make him overwork while you're doing public war crimes
Build a mall in the memorial of a historical tragedy
Recreationally build a psyop on all factions
Discreetly put corpses on animals of the same species so they experience cannibalism by themselves
Make Rimworld compatible with Windows 95 without fixing bugs
Create ads in the night sky so your pawns see ads instead of the aurora
When the guests ask you to order something for them, order a taxi
Make men study computer science so they can wear dresses
Cause an environmental disaster on purpose and send your pawns to clean all the pollution and repair the damage caused
Restrict the vehicle usage to bicycles only
Use the transport pod to send trash to the ocean
Make a pawn write a complicated book in a rec room with the others yapping and causing unnecessary noise
Put C4 on the backs of innocent pawns
Strangle a pawn from behind, when they accuse you, say: “I was just giving him a hug”
Do not flush the pawns' toilets
Make numerous tan lotions that are also laxatives
Organize a a debate between supremacist vs egualitarian ideologues about this topic: Should slaves be free or be free?
Don't install mods that translate from the English language
Start rituals at 3h every day, no matter if these are on cooldown
Recreate the ceremony of the Oscars with pawns with poor social
Send a transport pod with pawns into the sea ice for a very important mission and forget about them
Put on repeat all songs by my chemical romance in the industrial radio
Make a pawn tell others to zip up their zippers when they wear sweatpants
Hide raisins in pawns' cream-filled yoghurt
Assemble a bunch of underwear bombs and send them to other factions as good faith
Force a woman to give birth multiple times
Force a man to give birth multiple times
Find a big ship to finally escape the planet and destroy it
Make lovin with the Royal Great Emperor's daughter
And get her pregnant
And escape the planet with her to start a happy life as a family, away from the royalty
Use your gravship to travel around the world and burn everything
Promise guaranteed freedom to your slaves in exchange for a mission in the void dimension, and when they're there close the portal
Cause kidney stones on a pawn after they went through a long and difficult operation
Create a xenotype that causes a permanent solar eclipse
Make a Chicago sunroof on someone's shuttle
In a colony consisting of nudist women, transform one of them into a Wretch, eventually one of the rewritten genes is gonna transform the pawn into a male
Using a Nereid, grab a baby and put it on their personal pocket plane to safety, then get that Nereid killed

301-400 Ways to torture (WIP)

Whenever a faction asks you for workers from your colony, send your worst xenotypes
When children want cookies, don't buy them, force their grandma to make them
Go to a tribe's base with the meme of tree connection and Intentionally cause a fire in the forest
If you follow an ideoligion of blindsight, recruit a creepjoiner and use them to repeteadly do the blinding ritual to get psylink upgrades
Start a lost tribe scenario with the shipborn meme
Start a wild men scenario with the shipborn meme
Execute a prisoner in front of their baby
Execute a prisoner in front of their mother or father
Administer luciferium to a prisoner and remove their legs
Cook a lavish meal with 1 human meat. Are they really going to notice?
Launch your captured entities into the vacuum to study if they can habitate space
Make the doctors dance in front of the patients who urgently need medical care
Make a nurse record a performative video of their reaction after losing a patient
Create a colony with the meme of flesh purity and overcomplicate your pawns' lives by removing one non-lethal important part of their bodies for each pawn
Slaughter an animal when it's happily playing with a child
Inside the barracks with overhead mountain, mine/deconstruct the walls and rocks around
Bonus points if the colony has the tunneler meme
Acquire lots and lots of psychic shock lances, wait for a massive raid by the Empire and use the lances to stun them and steal everything from them
Bonus points if you don't kill them, forced nudity is enough humilliation
As a mechanitor, use many apoptosis if your raiders are humans
As a mechanitor, put many apoptosis next to the prisoners
Record the extravagant noises of the devourer eating humans and put it in the industrial radio for ASMR purposes
Create a xenotype with all phobias
Make a lone Sanghophage deathrest in a chamber with no turrets or security measures
Make an ideoligion based on the Gish Gallup
Rip a pawn's big nose off
Add a Game Over music mod and set it as the song "Hoy el Aire Huele a Ti" by Luis Miguel
Make a thriving colony and go Corporate
Give dementia to all pawns in your colony
Make a beautiful, almost perfect xenotype and steal everyone's wives you meet as your personal slaves
Make pawns take jobs as localizers and butcher the nuance, context, and culture of the original sources
Make single mothers celebrate Father's Day
Announce the third installment of a great videogame series and never release it
Give hope to a demoralized pawn who drank coffee but not that much
Make a psychriatist go to a gym and force them to stare at everyone doing healthy exercise instead of refilling their prescriptions
Create a pawn who is a warrior with a stoic personality and with a kill-count of more than 100 humans but gets scared of his tomboy girlfriend
Make a pawn write a really good self-help book and then burn it
Make two pawns flirt with each other at someone's funeral
Banish a colonist without saying why; when they ask, reply with "you violated TOS"
Organize a protest, when other factions ask what are you protesting, reply with "we're protesting everything, we're angry and we're not gonna take it anymore"
Create a payment processor and ban everyone you disagree with
Make the faint of heart study the horrifying entities
Attack the obelisks just because
After a massive raid, trigger a death pall
Make your buildings entirely made of wood
Create a xenotype based on Neco Arc
Make a karen demand a discount while trading
Make an artist write their very ambitious book and make others bother them with unnecessary orders
Make a mother educate her son to have toxic empathy
Trigger 10 long events of meteorites at the same time
Cause the extinction of all animal species except one and make your pawns depending in that meat repeatedly every day
Make a company based on collecting animals and sue other factions that do the same
Expose a prisoner to space to study the visual effects of vacuum on the human body for science

Mods needed

Here I will list the mods needed to do certain things that in vanilla wouldn't be possible.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2963116383

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3296057117

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2636329500

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3483831931

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1968134023

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886992038

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2891845502

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=836308268

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3155781848

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3253550009

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3656316229

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3121742525

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3421959154

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3467913565

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3566637178

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3014906877

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3551731617

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