Where to Find RimWorld Guides and Quickstart Help on the Wiki

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The RimWorld Wiki's main page links to a Guides section under Concepts, plus Colony Building and Quickstart Guides for early gameplay. If you are new to the game, start with Basics, Controls, User Interface, and Learning Helper, then move to the Quickstart Guides before branching into specific gameplay topics like caravans, research, quests, trade, and orders.

Start Here: Beginner and Interface Help

The Concepts section on the main page groups the entry-level material:

  • Basics – core game concepts
  • Controls – input and hotkeys
  • User interface – reading and using the game's UI
  • Learning helper – the in-game tutorial system
  • Lore and Fiction Primer – background setting, useful if you want context before playing

These pages assume no prior knowledge, so they are the right first stop if you have never launched the game.

Quickstart and Colony Building

For early gameplay specifically, the wiki points to two areas:

  • Colony Building – how to establish and develop a settlement
  • Quickstart Guides – condensed walkthroughs for getting a colony running

Use these once you understand the interface but still need direction on what to build, prioritize, or avoid in the first days.

Gameplay Topics for Later

After the basics, the Gameplay group covers the systems you will encounter as a colony grows:

Topic What it covers
Caravan Travel and trade parties
Environment Terrain and surroundings
Events Random and triggered occurrences
Research Tech tree progression
Quests Mission and reward systems
Time Day/night and scheduling
Trade Buying, selling, and value
Orders Directing colonist work

Combat has its own set of pages (Cover, Drafting, Offense, Structures, Tactics), and World covers scenario system, AI storytellers, world generation, biomes, and factions.

If You Need More Than the Wiki

The main page also links to the Ludeon Forums, the RimWorld subreddit, the RimWorld Discord, and an IRC channel. The wiki notes it is currently maintaining 2,825 articles, so coverage is broad but community-maintained — if a guide is missing or outdated, the Community Portal, the #wiki-suggestions Discord channel, and the To do list are where updates are coordinated.