r/RimWorld • u/Lexi_Bean21 • 8d ago

Discussion What's up with chronological age?

Like I never understood why some characters are like 50 but 5000 years chronologically, I have yet to see any ingame effects or meaning of that extra number of a reason it exists or even what exactly it means. Does anybody know if so please explain it to me

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u/Shadowrend01 uranium 8d ago

The chronological age is how long ago they were born. Having a large chronological age and a small actual age usually means they’ve spent a long time in cryptosleep

It doesn’t mean a whole lot for the purposes of gameplay, it’s largely fluff

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u/Lexi_Bean21 8d ago

So it's entirely just there for lore filling I guess...? Does it have like any ingame effects whatsoever or is it meaningless?

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u/ginger-like 8d ago

There is no in-game effect, no. The only times in gameplay you will even interact with chronological age in (un-modded) Rimworld are:

1 - Raising kids (Biotech DLC). By default, they grow 300% faster biologically than normal, so your child colonist might be "6 (2) years old." Using Growth Vats would also extend this.

2 - Age reversal (Ideology DLC). You can reverse the aging of your colonists, keeping them biologically young through the use of specialized equipment.

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u/TheMidnightRook 8d ago

There's another type of age reversal with a ritual from the Anomaly DLC as well