r/RimWorld • u/LynnTheLynx • 2d ago

Misc What the fuck happened???

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I look away for one second and theres suddenly a bloodsplosion and like 15 of the rabid polar bears that attacked me are downed?? I use mods but nothing that affects animals!!!

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u/Zinadu_ Tribals Just Cast Different 2d ago

Traps or mines? Explosive mines will shred parts sometimes.

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u/LynnTheLynx 2d ago

No traps or mines in this area, I think the wound flavor text implies a bunch of the polar bears detonated or something but that doesn't make any sense

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u/Iceshard1987 2d ago

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u/FollowTheMaelstrom 1d ago

Where is this from? Looks dope.

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u/Iceshard1987 1d ago

The original is from some comic thing called 'Pride of Baghdad'. (Page 27, for this particular image). I know nothing about it beyond that.

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u/drakythe 1d ago

Tragedy graphic novel. Follows a pride of lions, in the area of Baghdad. Trials. Tribulations. The usual. Plus the military activity around the U.S. invasion.

IIRC in the end the surviving members are gunned down by US military “liberating” the city

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u/EnamouredCat 2d ago

What did the logs on the polar bears say?

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u/LynnTheLynx 2d ago

it says "unaffiliated internal conflict", it either says something like this or "the polar bear crumpled from blood loss"

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u/Scrapox 2d ago

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u/PlanTop155 gold 1d ago

U must have been saving that for this very moment

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u/Scrapox 22h ago

True. I have a folder full of "[Character name] Blast" Images. I definitely didn't cobble it together in Paint in 5 minutes.

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u/RapidPigZ7 2d ago

They must have attacked a turret or mortar left lying out there.

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u/the_m_man1 1d ago

Are you doing anything in Anomaly might be something from there

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u/PlanTop155 gold 1d ago

Check the dev logs

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u/WesugiKenshin 2d ago

Just by chance, do you have the mod "Sometimes Raids Go Wrong" ?

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u/xAlphaTrotx 1d ago

My thoughts as well

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u/fuzzus628 2d ago

15 of them exploded?! I guess whatever originally caused it.........bears repeating.

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u/ennuiui 2d ago

Boomabears.

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u/rausmaus 2d ago

Are you running a scenario with pawns explode on death? If you injured at least one bear and it bled out, it could have caused a chain reaction where it causes others to bleed and die, explode, and hurt more.

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u/LynnTheLynx 2d ago

No, i have like 60 hours in this colony and no pawns have exploded before this lmao

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u/SnakeProtege 2d ago

When one pawn triggers an explosion harming another, they're listed as the "attacker" in the log but not the explosive. You could try clicking the entries in the log to travmce back.

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u/LynnTheLynx 2d ago

Could've been caused by one of my turrets exploding, but their blast radius isnt THAT big

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u/Professional-Floor28 Long pork enjoyer 2d ago

The blood is from the bears moving around everywhere while bleeding most probably.

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u/LynnTheLynx 2d ago

Maybe, but it wasn't there one second and then the next it was! Unless I just didn't notice it, which i feel like i would've because the blood was the reason i was so surprised in the first place. would 32 polar bears even bleed that much?

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u/Logical_Comparison28 Mechanitor and a war criminal 2d ago

They absolutely could bleed that much.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 1d ago

I bet one went manhunter, the turret attacked it, it or the others revenged on the turret and damaged it to explode, and that injured all of them a bit. Since they were injured they would all just roam about bleeding until they die. If you fast forwarded at the wrong time you might not notice it happening.

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u/LieGroundbreaking239 1d ago

Well wait wouldn’t it slow down your game if the turrets are fighting something. I don’t think it would allow you to speed it up until it’s delt with. Also I think 32 polar bears would destroy the turret before it could explode

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u/Rusturion 1d ago

"15 of the rabid polar bears that attacked me" implies that the alert was already seen and cleared.

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u/GlauberJR13 1d ago

Unless you have a mod to disable the forced slowdown as sometimes it can be annoying, like when fighting one or two tribals with great shooters and guns at the start of the game.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 11h ago

It may have only been one or a couple that went manhunter and the rest just got caught in the explosion. Hard to say for sure!

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u/Zealousideal-Ebb-876 1d ago

32 polar bears could bleed out that much and still be alive, the volume that that many pawns could cover with blood is insane, source: slave army playthrough.

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u/resoundingboom 2d ago

This one is the answer. Happened to a large herd on my map, I saw downed/dead creatures, thought a predator had went ape on them all but the logs made it look like an internal conflict.

Still not sure what exploded but one of the animals triggered it. My map had ancient mining charges all over it.

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u/Devoterr 2d ago

Sounds like it shit itself too hard

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u/guesswhomste 2d ago

Looks like it shit everything too hard

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u/MajorDZaster 2d ago

This reminds me of the time I saw someone remix Big Shot, and the thumbnail was

I SHOT MYSELF

AND NOW I'M DYING

Except due to the Deltarune font I misread the O as A, so I thought it said "I shat myself and now I'm dying"

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u/Tynelia23 2d ago

Dysentery outbreak strikes again

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u/MASkeptic 1d ago

An insulting spree? And how do you know they have a colonist named Terry?

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u/kaiwraithtempus 2d ago

"The polar bears discharge"

Sounds and looks to me like a very bad period

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u/Thorn-of-your-side 2d ago

"Its that time of the month again..." cuntsplosion "how can you tell?"

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u/KinkyRoubler 2d ago

The only explanation is they were high on chemshine and died somehow? Idk man. Unless you have some animal explosive belt mod in there somewhere.

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u/LynnTheLynx 2d ago

Is chemshine in a mod? because if so I don't think I have that one

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u/KinkyRoubler 2d ago

Its from one of the Vanilla expanded I think. Maybe chemfuel expanded? But honestly I might be reaching with that one here.

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u/Bmobmo64 2d ago

it's factions expanded settlers

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u/Jesterplane 2d ago

dude this and random fires on the map, random pawns catching fire also

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u/Terbear318 uranium 2d ago

It was an UN-BEARABLE tragedy.

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u/ra1nman1110 2d ago

Don't remember what mod it is, or if it's even a mod, but some map tiles can have modifiers like tar pits, animal scarcity, etc. One modifier makes it so that wildlife explodes on death, though I can't remember what it is exactly.

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u/OGMudbone909 1d ago

Sometimes raids go wrong mod?

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u/Kourne 2d ago

To shreds you say?

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u/63strelok35 2d ago

Check combat logs. No clue.

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u/UnDeadPuff 2d ago

The Thing had a fun day.

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u/Dragon-Saint granite 2d ago

There is a tile modifier that makes animals explode on death, I'm not sure if it's vanilla or from the Alpha Biomes mod, but based on everything said so far that would be my guess.

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u/pupbuck1 2d ago

Do you have any mods cause it looks like the bears just have up on life and blew up

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u/redissupreme 2d ago

Don’t you know? Polar bears are the deadliest predator in the animal kingdom.

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u/Van_the_Wanderer 1d ago

Hate to be the janitor, their job must be….. unbearable

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u/TauTau_of_Skalga Actually treats people well. 1d ago

Real rimworld anomaly here

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u/Cy41995 1d ago

I was just thinking that Anomaly could have used a "Spontaneous human/animal combustion" event.

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u/theJezzaBella 1d ago

JustRimworldThings

I don't think there's much in this game that surprises me anymore. I just laugh at the absurdity, I love it!

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u/Stratovaria 2d ago

Any unusual chemicals that might dropped from pod?

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u/LynnTheLynx 2d ago

It was just a manhunting pack, and I'd seen the bears like 4 seconds before they got decimated, so I don't think there was any chemfuel or stuff nearby. Besides, I keep anything that's flammable or explosive in an underground storage room

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u/TheSaiguy 2d ago

Good god there's so much blood

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u/Amr0z2 2d ago

They ate at taco bell

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u/Cranberryoftheorient 2d ago

Are you playing with the Vanilla Factions Expanded: Settlers mod? Could be they got into some Chemshine.

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u/LynnTheLynx 2d ago

Nope :P 

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u/MadameCat 2d ago

Could it be a boomalope/boomrat they decided to attack?

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u/Key_Status9461 1d ago

Do any of your pawns carry doomsday launchers?

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u/Ok-Effective6969 1d ago

Hunter drone?

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u/IxI_DUCK_IxI 1d ago

Insects! Shooting our jobs and playing their raps!

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u/MichaelJCaboose666 1d ago

Yall will be having polar bear for the next few weeks

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u/Whale-dinner 1d ago

They ate bombs

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u/FadingStar617 1d ago

Nothing....nothing happened.

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u/LynnTheLynx 10h ago

update: I got a similar manhunter pack (grizzly bears) and watched them closely this time. I realized that after they got shredded by the turrets they'd come and run around in front of my door, which is what spread the blood everywhere. My dumbass didn't even consider their frantic rabid running around before

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u/Lordnmcjr 1d ago

Are they female bears?