What is RimWorld Wiki?

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RimWorld Wiki (rimworldwiki.com) is a community-maintained encyclopedia for RimWorld, the indie space colony management game developed by Ludeon Studios. It is the reference site to check when you want details on game mechanics, items, DLC content, or guides — and it is not the official Ludeon Studios website, though it links out to official pages and community hubs. As of the current stable versions 1.6.4850 and 1.23, the wiki states it is maintaining 2,825 articles.

What the site covers

The main page organizes content into broad sections, which tells you what kind of questions the wiki is built to answer:

Section Example topics
Concepts Basics, controls, user interface, learning helper, lore, fiction primer, guides
Gameplay Caravan, environment, events, research, quests, time, trade, orders
Combat Cover, drafting, offense, structures, tactics
World Scenario system, AI storytellers, world generation, biomes, factions
Items Gear, weapons, apparel, armor, clothing, utility, resources, materials, textiles, drugs, food, medicine
Technology Electricity, deep drilling, moisture pumps, mineral scanning, bionics
Building Zones, structures, production, furniture, power, security, floors, recreation, temperature
Life Characters, backstories, health, body parts, mood, needs, skills, social, thoughts, traits; flora and fauna; colonists, prisoners, raiders, visitors, animals, mechanoids
DLC Royalty, Ideology, Biotech, Anomaly, Odyssey
Extras Version history, save file, development mode, mods, modding tutorials

If your question is "how does X work in RimWorld" or "what are the stats for Y," this is the type of site that likely has a page for it.

DLC coverage

The wiki splits official expansions into their own topic clusters, so you can look up expansion-specific systems without sorting through base-game pages:

  • Royalty — titles, quests, psycasts, techprints, persona weapons
  • Ideology — ideoligions, roles, rituals, styles, slavery
  • Biotech — pregnancy and babies, children, genes and xenotypes, mechanitors and mech gestation, pollution
  • Anomaly — void study, monolith, entities, containment, psychic rituals
  • Odyssey — gravships, biomes and landmarks, orbit, unique weapons, animals and fishing

Who runs it and how to contribute

RimWorld Wiki is edited by volunteers. The main page invites readers to help update it and notes that signing up is optional. It points new editors to Wiki basics and a Style guide, and lists places to coordinate work: the Community Portal, the #wiki-suggestions channel on Discord, and a To do list. Issues needing administrator attention go to the Admin Noticeboard.

Official and community links it points to

The wiki is a hub that links outward rather than an official channel. Its main page lists the Steam page, Console Edition page, Tynan Sylvester on Twitter, Ludeon Forums, the RimWorld subreddit, the RimWorld Discord, an IRC channel, and the Bay 12 forum thread. Use those when you need official announcements, patch notes, or direct developer communication — the wiki itself is best for reference content.

When to use it

  • Use the wiki when you need mechanics explanations, item or creature stats, DLC system breakdowns, or step-by-step guides.
  • Use the official sources (Ludeon development blog, Double Eleven Patch Feed, Steam page) when you need release announcements or version history context.
  • Use the community channels (Discord, Reddit, forums) when you want to ask other players rather than read a reference page.

One practical note: the wiki tracks stable versions, so if you are playing an older or experimental build, confirm the version a page was written for before relying on exact numbers.